Borba Municipality (Portugal)

Last modified: 2005-08-26 by antonio martins
Keywords: borba | coat of arms: castle | crescent: points to top (red) | crescents: 2 |
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• About the flag
• Version without the coat of arms
• Presentation of Borba

• Municipalities of Portugal
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• Page about the municipal flag and coat of arms of Borba at Sérgio Horta’s website (in Portuguese).
  reported by Jorge Candeias, 29 Feb 1999
• Page about Borba at the Portuguese Municipalities’s Association website (incl. image of the arms)
  reported by António Martins, 18 Nov 2001

About the flag

The flag is a plain red flag with the arms in the centre. The arms are as typical as you can get: a 4-towered mural crown, a scroll reading "VILA DE BORBA" and a silver sheld with sable counterchef. The shield is charged in chef by a green cross of Avis sided by two red crescents pointing upwards, in the middle by a red castle with white door and windows sided by two trees proper, and in counterchef by a white-blue-white wavy line with two silver fishes facing the center. Heavy, but relatively nice.
Jorge Candeias, 18 Nov 1998

Guessing the meaning of the arms, I’d say that the crescents are related to the moors and the cross to the Order of Avis (the town of Avis is not that far a