Grândola Municipality (Portugal)

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

• Municipalities of Portugal
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• Page about the municipal flag and coat of arms of Grândola at Sérgio Horta’s website (in Portuguese).
  reported by Jorge Candeias, 29 Feb 1999
• Page about Grândola 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 quarterly (meaning town rank) of yellow and black. The coat of arms is argent, a wild boar sable passant, under a large sword-cross of Santiago gules itself chaged with a pelican or in his piety and flanqued by two towers sable with doors and windows void, dexter and sinister two trees fruited or, domed vert and trunked and rooted sable, in point a wavy fess azure. Mural crown argent with four visible towers (town rank