Marinha Grande Municipality (Portugal)

Concelho da Marinha Grande, Distrito de Leiria

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2:3, image by António Martins-Tuválkin, 22 Aug 2004

2:3 image by Pedro Moderno, 21 Aug 2004

• Marinha Grande Municipality
• Flag
• Former Flag (until 1988)
• Version without Coat of Arms
• Coat of Arms
• Presentation of Marinha Grande

• Marinha Grande Communes
• Portugal

Marinha Grande Municipality

Flag

It is a quite typical Portuguese municipal flag, with the coat of arms centred on a background gyronny of eight (city rank) of black and yellow.
António Martins-Tuválkin, 22 Aug 2004

Former Flag (until 1988)

It was a quite typical Portuguese municipal flag, with the coat of arms centred on a background quartered (town rank) of yellow and black.
António Martins-Tuválkin, 22 Aug 2004

Version without Coat of Arms

The flag is gyronny of eight of black and yellow.
António Martins-Tuválkin, 1 Apr 2010

Coat of Arms

image by Sérgio Horta, 2 Mar 2007

image by Pedro Moderno, 21 Aug 2004

The coat of arms is Gules a parassol pine tree crowned Argent, trunked and fruited Sable, issuant from base of mounds Or between two scallops of the same. Mural crown Argent with five visible towers (city rank) and white scroll reading in black upper case letters "CIDADE DE MARINHA GRANDE" (see left flag image on top) or simply "MARINHA GRANDE" (see right flag mage on top). Apart from trivial changes (four to five towers, flag quarterly to gyronny and scroll text "VILA" to "CIDADE") in the old coat of arms (see right image above) the dunes were changed from Argent to Or, the pine tree went from leafed Or to leafed Argent and the trunk lost its fimbriation.
Meaning:
"Marinha Grande" means "greater salty marsh", but the arms seem to refer rather to the local dune fields and parassol pinewoods.
António Martins-Tuválkin, 22 Aug 2004

The coat of arms and flag were changed and published in the official journal Diário do Governo : III Série on 28 August 1996, upon upgrade to city status in 19 April 1988, modifying the original arms and flag, adopted and published in the official journal Diário do Governo : I Série on 24 May 1935
António Martins-Tuválkin, 1 Mar 2007

Presentation of Marinha Grande

Marinha Grande municipality had 34 429 inhabitants in 2000 (32 215 in 1990), and it is divided in 3 communes, covering 186 km². It belongs to the Leiria District and to the traditional province of Estremadura.
António Martins-Tuválkin, 22 Aug 2004

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