Funchal Municipality (Portugal)

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

The flag of Funchal is a 2:3 purple over yellow gyronny, a coat of arms centered over all. Arms: a round point shield (7:8) vert, five beehives proper laid in cross, cornered with four grape bunches fruited purple and leaved or, each charged with an eschuteon azure, a saltire of silver bezants (“quina”). Silver mural crown with five visible towers. White scroll below the shield with upper case sans serif black lettering "A NOBRE E LEAL" (upper, smaller line) "CIDADE DO FUNCHAL" (lower, bigger line), meaning «The noble and loyal city of Funchal»). This flag is quite representative of portuguese municipal and submunicipal flags, it’s only uniqueness is the two lines of text in the scroll.
António Martins, 22 Dec 1997 and 27 Oct 1998

The flag of Funchal is exactly as shown, but not really frequent in the city.
Ivan Sache, 18 Feb 2001

Presentation of Funchal

Funchal is the regional capital of Madeira, being with it’s 115 840 inhabitants (in 10 communes covering 76 km²) by far the island’s largest settlement. Thi