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Lagoa Municipality (Portugal)

Concelho de Lagoa, Açores

Last modified: 2024-05-25 by klaus-michael schneider
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[Lagoa municipality] 2:3, image by António Martins-Tuválkin, 18 May 2024
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Lagoa Municipality

Flag

It is a typical Portuguese communal flag, with the coat of arms centred on a field gyronny of eight of red and white.
Source: Sérgio Horta´s webpage
António Martins-Tuválkin, 18 May 2024

Incorrect Flag

Flag

[Lagoa incorrect municipal flag] 2:3, image by António Martins-Tuválkin,

It is a typical Portuguese communal flag, with the coat of arms centred on a field gyronny of eight of white and red.
Source: Sérgio Horta´s webpage
António Martins-Tuválkin, 18 May 2024

Old Flag

[Lagoa municipal flag version 1951] 2:3, image by Sérgio Horta, 27 Oct 2001

It is a fairly typical Portuguese municipal flag, with the coat of arms centred on a quartered field of red and white.
Source: Sérgio Horta´s webpage
Sérgio Horta, 27 Oct 2001

Versions without Coat of Arms

[Lagoa municipal plain gyronny]
2:3, image by António Martins-Tuválkin, 1 Apr 2010 		[Lagoa municipal plain quartered]
2:3, image by António Martins-Tuválkin, 1 Apr 2010 		   

Above left is the current version, above right is the 1951 version. Klaus-Michael Schneider, 22 May 2024

Coat of Arms

[Lagoa municipality CoA] image by Sérgio Horta, 27 Oct 2001

Argent field, a cross pommy Gules, in chief a goshawk Sable, lined Argent a carrying on its claw a quina. Mural crown Argent with five visible towers (city rank) and white scroll with upper case black letters "MUNICÍPIO DE LAGOA". The image above displays the old version with four visibale towers (town rank).
Source: Hiperglobal webpage
Sérgio Horta, 27 Oct 2001

Published in Diário da República: II Série on 15 August 1951 with four visible towers and modified in Diário da República: II Série on 27 May 2013
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 22 May 2024

Presentation of Lagoa

Lagoa Municipality is subdivided into five communes covering 45,57 km² and had 14 416 habitantes in 2011. It gained the rank of a city on 22 March 2012. It is part of the Açores.
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 8 Nov 2014

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