Lourinhã Municipality (Portugal)

Last modified: 2010-07-10 by antónio martins
Keywords: lourinhã | coat of arms: tree | tree (green) | laurel | sun: face | sun: 16 rays (golden) | crescent: points hoist | fleurs de lis: 2 (golden) |
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• About the flag
• Version without the coat of arms
• Presentation of Lourinhã

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• Page about the municipal flag and coat of arms of Lourinhã at Sérgio Horta’s website (in Portuguese).
  reported by Jorge Candeias, 29 Feb 1999
• Page about Lourinhã at the Portuguese Municipalities’s Association website (incl. image of the arms)
  reported by António Martins, 18 Nov 2001

About the flag

It is a fairily typical portuguese municipal flag, with the coat of arms centered on a yellow and green quartered (town rank) background. Flag and arms adopted and published in the official journal Diário do Governo : I Série in 1941.11.05.
António Martins, 27 Jan 2007

The arms are Gules between two fleurs de lis Or a laurel tree Vert garnished Sable and fruited Or and issuant from a ground of the same and under a moon Argent in dexter chief and a sun Or in sinister chief. Mural crown argent with four visible towers (town rank) and white scroll reading in black upper case letters scroll reading in black upper case letters "VILA DA LOURINHÃ".
António Martins, 27 Jan 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 Lourinhã

Lourinhã municipality had 23 265 inhabitants in 2001 and consists of 11 communes covering 146,06 km². It is part of Lisboa District, traditional province Estremadura, 1999 ref. adm. region Estremadura e Ribatejo, current C.C.R. / NUTS II Centro, pre-2002 C.C.R. / NUTS II Lisboa e Vale do Tejo, and NUTS III Oeste. Lourinhã is famed for its dinosaurs.
António Martins, 27 Jan 2007

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