Campo Maior Municipality (Portugal)

Last modified: 2005-08-26 by antonio martins
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• About the flag
• Presentation of Campo Maior

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

About the flag

Flag: Quartered red over blue, coa in center. Coat of arms: argent, on a saltire of palm leaves vert cornered by four lions gules, passant and armed with swords argent, an eschuteon argent charged with a saltire of five blue rounels and bordered or, argent mural crown of four towers (town status), argent scroll reading "LEAL E VALOROSA VILA DE CAMPO MAIOR", over a smaller scroll reading "LEALDADE E VALOR", meaning «loyal and brave town of Campo Maior | Loyalty and Bravery».
António Martins, 03 Oct 1998

Presentation of Campo Maior

Campo Maior, which means "Larger Field" (as in battle field), is a border municipality, often under spanish invasion or occupation. The unusual scrolls refer to this. It has 8490 inhabitants in 247 km² and belongs to the old province of Alto Alentejo, to the region to be of Alentejo and to the current Portalegre District.
António Martins, 03 Oct 1998