Last modified: 2005-08-26 by antonio martins
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The flag is blue (ligh blue in my sources) with coat of arms centered.
The coat of arms is 100% typical: 4-towered mural crown, scroll reading
"CONCELHO DE BAIÃO" and shield. The shield is blue
with a wide yellow-green border according to my sources (I suppose it must
be gold in the official description), and is charged with a bunch of grapes
surrounded by a laurel all in the same colour as the border, above 3
silver-blue-silver wavy lines. The border is charged with 8 blue castles
with door and windows in the same colour as the border, disposed as the
castles of the portuguese coat of arms.
The wavy lines stand for the Douro river and the bunch of grapes for the
wine produced there, but the castles and the laurel are mysteries to me.
Jorge Candeias, 09 Oct 1998
Plain (monocolored) portuguese subnational flags are not allowed to have
armless variations: plain flags always carry the coat of arms.
Jorge Candeias, 18 Jul 1999