Covilhã Municipality (Portugal)

Last modified: 2005-08-26 by antonio martins
Keywords: covilhã | coat of arms: star | star: six points (white) | waves: 2 | water mill wheel |
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• Page about the municipal flag and coat of arms of Covilhã at Sérgio Horta’s website (in Portuguese).
  reported by Jorge Candeias, 29 Feb 1999
• Page about Covilhã 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 background gyronny (meaning city rank) of red and white. The coat of arms is azure between two wavy fesses argent on a mullet of the same a water mill wheel gules. Mural crown argent with five visible towers (city rank); collar of the Order of Tower and Sword; white scroll reading in black upper case letters "CIDADE DA COVILHÃ". Some sources show purple instead of red — confirmation should be sought in the relevant law.
António Martins, 12 Sep 2003

The water mill wheel refers to the early river power textle industrialization of this region in the m