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![[Angra do Heroísmo municipality]](../images/p/pt-agh.gif)
The flag is a red over yellow gyronny with
coat of arms in the center. The coat of arms has a 5-towered mural crown, a
silver shield charged in chef with a yellow hawk holding a quina in
it’s claws, three wavy stripes of green-silver-green below and in the center
a red castle with white door and windows, the collar of the
Order of Tower and Sword and a white scroll
reading "CIDADE DE ANGRA DO HEROÍSMO" in black letters.
Jorge Candeias, 31 May 1998
The meaning of the various charges of the coat of arms is probably: the
hawk and quina stand for the Azores (these
charges appear in nearly all the azorean municipal coats of arms), the
green waves stand for the sea, since this town is a sea harbor (like all the
other azorean heads of municipality), and the castle must represent the city’s
fortifications and history, since this city was the beginning of the liberal
revolution in the XIX century that after a civil war conquered the power from
the supporters of D. Miguel, an absolutist king, and that caused the adoption
of the blue-white flag in Portugal.
Jorge Candeias<