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2:3 image by Sérgio Horta, 7 May 2007
It is a fairily typical portuguese municipal flag, with the
coat of arms centered on a red and black
gyronny (city rank) background. Flag and
arms adopted and published in the official journal
Diário da República : III
Série in 1993.11.25. These arms and flag were adopted upon the
upgrade of the municipality seat to city status in 1988.02.01 and are a trivial
change of the former arms and flag.
António Martins, 05 May 2007
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The arms are
Argent issuant from the second of four fesslets wavy Vert in counterchief
a ship Sable dressed Gules bringing at the prow Saint Peter dressed Gules
mantled Azure and holding in his dexter a key Or and at the bow Saint Paul
dressed likewise and holding sword Or. Mural crown argent with five
visible towers (city rank) and white scroll
reading in black upper case letters "Cidade de Peniche".
António Martins, 5 May 2007
This is the “civil” flag of Peniche Municipality (Concelho
de Peniche), without the coat of arms: Black over red gironny.
António Martins, 9 Apr 1997
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
The former arms and flag were adopted and published
in the official journal Diário do
Governo : I Série in 1935.03.01. These included the usual
town attributes: four visible crown towers,
"vila" in the scroll and red and black quarterly flag. Since the changes
were trivial, the city flag was in use already in 1988-1993 —
this is confirmed by my personal observation; gyronny plain
flags replaced the quartered ones almost
immediately, this surely due to manufactoring issues.
António Martins, 05 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
Peniche municipality had 27 315 inhabitants in 2001 and consists of
6 communes covering 77,41 km². It is part of
Leiria District, traditional province
Estremadura, 1999 ref. adm. region Estremadura e
Ribatejo, current C.C.R. / NUTS II Centro, and NUTS III Oeste.
António Martins, 5 May 2007
Peniche’s fortress, overhanging the ocean, was used as a jail
for political prisoners till the
“Carnation Revolution” of April 25th, 1974.
António Martins, 5 May 2007
The municipal territory of Peniche includes the Berlengas island group
(<2 km², larger island 0,78 km²) 15 km off shore;).
See my flag proposals online
(here
and here);
while these pages show the whole thing in a tongue-in-cheek micro-nation style,
two copies of the
flag
were made and hoisted locally (in private, unofficial manner) once or thrice.
António Martins, 05 May 2007
These do not have regular dwellers — apart from scientific and military personnel throughout the year, and many summertime visitors and municipal staff to assist those). Locally used/usable flags are:
image by António Martins, 9 Apr 1997
The flag of the Association of Berlengas’s Friends
(Associação dos Amigos da Berlenga) is a dull azure map of the
island on a white cloth with white lettering "AAB"
António Martins, 9 Apr 1997
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