Ferreira do Zêzere Municipality (Portugal)

Concelho de Ferreira do Zêzere, Distrito de Santarém

Last modified: 2014-08-09 by klaus-michael schneider
Keywords: ferreira do zezere | fess(wavy) | wheat | cross(christ knights) | cross(templar) |
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• About the Flag
• Version without Coat of Arms
• Presentation of Ferreira do Zêzere

• Ferreira do Zêzere Communes
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• Page about Ferreira do Zêzere 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 fairly typical Portuguese municipal flag, with the coat of arms centred on a field quarterly (meaning town rank) of red and yellow..
António Martins-Tuválkin, 19 July 1999

The coat of arms is argent on a fess sable three ears of wheat, in dexter chief a “templar” cross, in sinister chief a Christ Knight’s Order cross, in base a wavy fess azure. Mural crown argent with four visible towers (town rank) and white scroll reading in black upper case letters "VILA DE FERREIRA DO ZÊZERE".
Meaning:
"Ferreira" relates to a blacksmith or to his shop (not refered on the coat of arms), "do" means "of the", and "Zêzere" is the name of a river (largest tributary of the Tagus on portuguese territory), depicted on the coat of arms by a wavy fess. The other charges refer to the local importance of wheat and to the Orders Templar and of Christ’s Knights.
António Martins-Tuválkin, 19 July 1999

António Martins-Tuválkin,

Version without Coat of Arms

Presentation of Ferreira do Zêzere

Ferreira do Zêzere municipality had 9650 inhabitants in 1990, and it is divided in 9 communes, covering 189 km². It belongs to the Santarém District and to the old province of Ribatejo. António Martins, 19 Jul 1999

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