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Marinha Grande Municipality (Portugal)

Concelho da Marinha Grande, Distrito de Leiria

Last modified: 2014-08-02 by klaus-michael schneider
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[Marinha Grande municipality] 2:3 image by António Martins-Tuválkin, 22 Aug 2004
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About the Flag

It is a quite typical Portuguese municipal flag, with the coat of arms centred on a background gyronny (city rank) of black and yellow.
António Martins-Tuválkin, 22 Aug 2004

Former flag

[Marinha Grande(town) municipality] 2:3 image by Pedro Moderno and Klaus-Michael Schneider, 17 July 2014

It was a quite typical Portuguese municipal flag, with the coat of arms centred on a background quartered (town rank) of yellow and black.

Coat of arms

[Marinha Grande municipality CoA]
image by Sérgio Horta, 2 Mar 2007
[Marinha Grande(town) municipality CoA]
image by Pedro Moderno, 21 Aug 2004
 
 

The coat of arms is gules a parassol pine tree crowned argent, trunked and fruited sable issuant from a base of mounds or between two scallops of the same. Mural crown argent with five visible towers (city rank) and white scroll reading in black upper case letters "CIDADE DE MARINHA GRANDE". (left image). Apart from trivial changes (four to five towers, flag quarterly to gyronny and scroll text "VILA" to "CIDADE") in the old coat of arms (right image) the dunes were changed from Argent to Or, the pine tree went from leafed Or to leafed Argent and the trunk lost its fimbriation
Meaning:
"Marinha grande" means "greater salty marsh", but the arms seem to refer rather to the local dune fields and parassol pinewoods.
António Martins-Tuválkin, 22 Aug 2004

The coat of arms and flag were changed and published in the official journal Diário do Governo : III Série in 1996.08.28, upon upgrade to city status in 1988.04.19, modifying the original arms and flag, adopted and published in the official journal Diário do Governo : I Série in 1935.05.24.
António Martins-Tuválkin, 1 Mar 2007


Version without Coat of Arms

[Marinha Grande municipality plain] 2:3 image by António Martins-Tuválkin, Apr 2010

Presentation of Marinha Grande

Marinha Grande municipality had 34 429 inhabitants in 2000 (32 215 in 1990), and it is divided in 3 communes, covering 186 km². It belongs to the Leiria District and to the traditional province of Estremadura.
António Martins-Tuválkin, 22 Aug 2004


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