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Paredes Municipality (Portugal)

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Paredes municipality
image by Sérgio Horta, 11 Feb 2007
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About the flag

It is a slightly atypical portuguese municipal flag, with the coat of arms centred on a purple and green background gyronny (city rank). Flag and arms adopted upon upgrade to city status in 1991, after trivial changes (background pattern, crown and scroll text), but apparently not yet officialized by law. (I suspect that this is due to the unheraldic background pattern: They got away with it back in 1935 but the Commission will not approve the modified flag with these colors.)
António Martins-Tuválkin, 8 Feb 2007

Coat of arms

Paredes municipality
image by Sérgio Horta, 8 Feb 2007

The arms are Argent issuant from a mound Vert emphasized Sable a tree Vert trunked Sable and fruited Or overgrown by a grape vine issuant from the dexter and trunked Proper and leafed Vert and fruited Purple. Mural crown argent with five visible towers (city rank) and white scroll reading in black upper case letters "CIDADE DE PAREDES".
António Martins-Tuválkin, 8 Feb 2007


Version without coat of arms

Paredes plain flag
image by António Martins-Tuválkin, Apr 2010

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


Previous flag

1935-1991 Paredes municipality
image by Sérgio Horta, 10 Feb 2007

Before 1991 Paredes was a town and its municipal flag was green and purple quarterly; the arms had a mural crown with only four towers and the scroll read "VILA DE PAREDES". They had been published in the official journal Diário do Governo : I Série in 1935.02.14.
António Martins-Tuválkin, 8 Feb 2007

Version without coat of arms

Paredes plain flag
image by António Martins-Tuválkin, Apr 2010

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 Paredes

Paredes municipality had 83 377 inhabitants in 2001 and consists of 18 communes covering 156,56 km². It is part of Porto District, traditional province Douro Litoral, 1999 ref. adm. region Entre Douro e Minho, C.C.R. / NUTS II Norte, and NUTS III Tâmega.
António Martins-Tuválkin, 8 Feb 2007


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