Mogadouro Municipality (Portugal)

Concelho de Mogadouro, Distrito de Bragança

Last modified: 2014-08-30 by klaus-michael schneider
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• Presentation of Mogadouro

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• Page about Mogadouro 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 quartered yellow and black (town rank).
António Martins-Tuválkin, 15 Dec 1998

The arms are argent, a castle sable with port and windows argent, a templar cross in the dexter chief and a Christ Order cross in the sinister. Mural crown with four towers and white scroll reading "VILA DE MOGADOURO" in black capitals.
Meaning:
The castle, as usual, stands for the local castle and the two crosses relate to the monk-warrior orders that own the region after the conquest (Templars and, later, Christ Knights).
António Martins-Tuválkin, 15 Dec 1998

Flag and arms were approved on 27 April 1935.
António Martins-Tuválkin, 15 Dec 1998

Version without Coat of Arms

Presentation of Mogadouro

Mogadouro, a 756 km² municipality in the Bragança district and in the old province of Tras-os-Montes e Alto Douro, with 11 720 inhabitants in 21 communes.
António Martins-Tuválkin, 15 Dec 1998

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