Freixo de Espada à Cinta Municipality (Portugal)

Last modified: 2010-08-27 by antónio martins
Keywords: freixo de espada à cinta | coat of arms: tree | tree: ash | tree (yellow) | ash | swords: 2 | sword: pointing up (yellow) | escutcheons: 2 |
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• About the flag
• Version without the coat of arms
• Presentation of Freixo de Espada à Cinta FEC
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• Page about the municipal flag and coat of arms of Freixo de Espada à Cinta at Sérgio Horta’s website (in Portuguese).
  reported by Jorge Candeias, 29 Feb 1999
• Page about Freixo de Espada à Cinta at the Portuguese Municipalities’s Association website (incl. image of the arms)
  reported by António Martins, 18 Nov 2001
• Freixo de Espada à Cinta, at the English Wikipedia
  reported by António Martins, 02 Aug 2007

About the flag

It is a fairily typical portuguese municipal flag, with the coat of arms centered on a plain yellow background. Flag and arms adopted and published in the official journal Diário do Governo : I Série in 1935.04.27.
António Martins, 02 Aug 2007

The arms are Purpure an ash Or leafed Vert between two swords Or pointing downwards and the whole between two escutcheons Argent each charged with five escutcheons Azure each charged with 13 plates set 2+3+2+3+2+1 (Portugal ancien). Mural crown argent with four visible towers (town rank) and white scroll reading in black upper case letters "Vila de Freixo de Espada à Cinta".
António Martins, 02 Aug 2007

"Freixo" means "ash" (the tree), and this is present in the arms. "De espada à cinta" means something like "with a sword at the belt", which is also present in the arms, but the actual etymology may be different.
António Martins, 02 Aug 2007

Last year there was a lecture about this coat of arms in a session organized by the Lusitanian Heraldry Academy.
António Martins, 03 Aug 2007

Version without the coat of arms

Plain (monocolored) portuguese subnational flags are not allowed to have armless variations: plain flags always carry the coat of arms.
Jorge Candeias, 18 Jul 1999

Presentation of Freixo de Espada à Cinta

Freixo de Espada à Cinta municipality had 4184 inhabitants in 2001 and consists of 6 communes covering 244,49 km². It is part of Bragança District, traditional province and 1999 ref. adm. region Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro, C.C.R. / NUTS II Norte, and NUTS III Douro.
António Martins, 02 Aug 2007

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