Vila Flor Municipality (Portugal)

Last modified: 2012-04-13 by antónio martins
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• About the flag
• Version without the coat of arms
• Presentation of Vila Flor VFL
• Commune flags

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• Page about the municipal flag and coat of arms of Vila Flor at Sérgio Horta’s website (in Portuguese).
  reported by Jorge Candeias, 29 Feb 1999
• Page about Vila Flor at the Portuguese Municipalities’s Association website (incl. image of the arms)
  reported by António Martins, 18 Nov 2001
• Vila Flor, at the English Wikipedia
  reported by António Martins, 08 Aug 2007

About the flag

It is a fairily typical portuguese municipal flag, with the coat of arms centered on a quarted (town rank) yellow and purple background. Flag and arms adopted and published in the official journal Diário do Governo : I Série in 1935.04.27.
António Martins, 08 Aug 2007

The arms are Vert an a fleur de lis Or emphasized Purpure. Mural crown argent with four visible towers (town rank) and white scroll reading in black upper case letters "Vila Flor".
António Martins, 08 Aug 2007

For what reason is it emphasized Purpure, you may ask: Why?, to ruin a simple and adequate blazon, uniquely so in Portuguese local heraldry! (Unless it was to avoid unintended usurpation…)
António Martins, 08 Aug 2007

"Vila flor" means "flower town" in Portuguese; it is almost a compound noun, such as "Flowerton", which makes these arms canting.
António Martins, 08 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 Vila Flor

Vila Flor municipality had 7913 inhabitants in 2001 and consists of 19 communes covering 265,52 km². It is part of Bragança District, traditional 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, 08 Aug 2007

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