Sabrosa Municipality (Portugal)

Last modified: 2010-07-10 by antónio martins
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• About the flag
• Version without the coat of arms
• Presentation of Sabrosa

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• Page about the municipal flag and coat of arms of Sabrosa at Sérgio Horta’s website (in Portuguese).
  reported by Jorge Candeias, 29 Feb 1999
• Page about Sabrosa 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 quite typical portuguese municipal flag, with the coat of arms centered on a green yellow background. Flag and arms adopted and published in the official journal Diário do Governo : I Série in 1934.01.22.
António Martins, 28 Nov 2006

The arms are argent a fountain sable playing argent between two trees leaved vert, trunked and erradicated sable and fruited or and on a chief gules an arm in plate armour and naked hand proper issuant and holding a sword bladed argent and hilted or. Mural crown argent with four visible towers (town rank) and white scroll reading in black upper case letters "VILA DE SABROSA".
António Martins, 28 Nov 2006

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 Sabrosa

Sabrosa municipality had 6835 inhabitants in 2000, and it is divided in 15 communes, covering 156,9 km². It belongs to: Vila Real District, traditional province and 1999 ref. adm. region Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro, and C.C.R./NUT2 Norte.
António Martins, 28 Nov 2006

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