Alcácer do Sal Municipality (Portugal)

Last modified: 2005-08-26 by antonio martins
Keywords: alcácer do sal | salt | coat of arms: ship | cross: saint james | castle (red) | waves: 5 |
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• Presentation of Alcácer do Sal

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• Page about Alcácer do Sal 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 quite typical portuguese municipal flag, with the coat of arms centered on a plain red background. The coat of arms is or, a castle gules open and lit of the same charged with an escutcheon charged with Portugal Ancien, the castle flanked by two St. James crosses and standing on a mound vert, in counterchief of six wavy fesses argent and azure upon which sails a ship or dresses argent and flagged of St. George. Mural crown argent with four visible towers (town rank) and white scroll reading in black upper case letters "VILA DE ALCÁCER DO SAL".
António Martins, 20 Sep 1998

Version without the coat of arms

Plain (monocolored) portuguese subnational flags are not allowed to have armless variat