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How to fold the portuguese national flag

image by António Martins

Introduction
1st stage
2nd stage
3rd stage
4th stage

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Portugal

Introduction

Here goes the story of how you should fold the portuguese flag to have it properly folded. First of all, unlike the US flag, the end result is not a triangle, but it’s a square containing the arms, which should give you a pretty good idea of the procedure right away.
Jorge Candeias, 19 Dec 1999

There might not be a universal protocol to fold the portuguese flag, after all. The fact is that one of the handover ceremonies in Macao consisted of the exit of the Governor from his official residence and consequent lowering of the flag. This was also a military ceremony, but the flag was folded differently. In this image you can see Gen. Rocha Vieira holding a folded portuguese flag. The early stages of the folding aren’t apparent from the final result but it’s obvious that the last parts that were folded were the upper and lower edges of the flag. This is in total contradiction to what I saw in the tranfer ceremony. So the only conclusion I can get to is that apparently there is no universally accepted protocol to fold the portuguese flag, after all. Anyway, the images bellow stand as one of the possible used ways to fold the flag.
Jorge Candeias, 21 Dec 1999

1st stage

by Jorge Candeias and António Martins, 19 Dec 1999

To do everything properly you need 4 people, one guy for each side of