Last modified: 2012-04-13 by antónio martins
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It is a fairly typical portuguese municipal flag,
with the coat of arms centered on a white
and red quarterly (town rank) background.
Flag and arms adopted and published in the official journal
Diário da República : I
Série in 1985.03.12, a remarkably late date.
António Martins, 14 May 2007
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The arms are Sable above a counterchief Argent charged with two fesses wavy
Azure and over all a boat Gules with three oars Or and below a tower Argent
masoned Sable and litten and open Gules between two bees Or an one-arch bridge
Argent masoned Sable throughout. Mural crown argent with four visible towers
(town rank) and white scroll reading in black
upper case letters "Ponte da Barca".
António Martins, 14 May 2007
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
Ponte da Barca municipality had 12 909 inhabitants in 2001 and consists
of 25 communes covering 184,76 km². It is part of of
Viana do Castelo District, traditional province
Minho, 1999 ref. adm. region
Entre Douro e Minho, C.C.R. / NUTS II Norte, and
NUTS III Minho-Lima.
"Ponte da barca" means "ferry bridge" (or "pram bridge"), which makes
the arms partly canting. No ideas about the bees and tower, though, apart
from the obvious.
António Martins, 14 May 2007
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