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Celorico de Basto Municipality (Portugal)

Concelho de Celorico de Basto, Distrito de Braga

Last modified: 2014-08-02 by klaus-michael schneider
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[Celorico de Basto municipality] 2:3 image by António Martins-Tuválkin, 26 Nov 2006
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About the flag

It is a quite typical portuguese municipal flag, with the coat of arms centered on a quartered background (meaning town rank) of white and black. Arms and flag approved by law of 1948.02.24, a relatively late date.
António Martins, 1 Jun 2006

Coat of arms

[Celorico de Basto CoA] image by Sérgio Horta, 26 Nov 2006

The coat of arms is argent between two bunches of grapes fruited purpure andleaved and stemmed vert a castle sable open and litten of the field and on a counterchief azure wavy a wavy wavy fess argent. Mural crown argent with four visible towers (town rank) and white scroll reading in black upper case letters "Celorico de Basto".
António Martins, 1 Jun 2006


Version without the coat of arms

[Celorico de Basto municipality plain] 2:3 image by António Martins-Tuválkin, 2010

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