Cantanhede Municipality (Portugal)

Concelho de Cantanhede, Distrito de Coimbra

Last modified: 2014-10-25 by klaus-michael schneider
Keywords: cantanhede | fleur-de-lis(golden) | tree | grapes(purple) | annulet | ruby | chief |
Links: FOTW homepage | search | disclaimer and copyright | write us | mirrors

• About the Flag
• Version without Coat of Arms
• Presentation of Cantanhede

• Cantanhede Communes
• Portugal

• Page about Cantanhede 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 centred on a field gyronny (city rank) of yellow and purple.
António Martins-Tuválkin, 25 Feb 2000

The coat of arms is Argent, a pear tree Proper fruited Or between two grapes, fruited purple; in chief azure an annulet Or with a ruby between two fleurs-de-lis Or. Mural crown Argent with five visible towers (city rank) and white scroll reading in black upper case letters "CIDADE DE CANTANHEDE".
António Martins-Tuválkin, 25 Feb 2000

Cantanhede was uprgraded to city and seat of a municipality on 16 August 1991. Flag and arms were adopted and published in Diário da República: III Série on 14 February 1992.
Sérgio Horta, 25 Feb 2000

Version without Coat of Arms

Presentation of Cantanhede

Cantanhede municipality had 37 000 inhabitants in 1990, and it is divided in 14 communes, covering 397 km². It belongs to the Coimbra District and to the old province of Beira Litoral.
António Martins-Tuválkin, 25 Feb 2000

back to Municipalities of Portugal click here