Guimarães Municipality (Portugal)

Last modified: 2005-08-26 by antonio martins
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• Page about the municipal flag and coat of arms of Guimarães at Sérgio Horta’s website (in Portuguese).
  reported by Jorge Candeias, 29 Feb 1999
• Municipal website | arms page: here is a text on and a picture of the municipal flag. The text is merely a description of the flag and coat of arms (in portuguese). However, the image is not accurate (the description is) because it is way too dark: the flag should be green and white gyronny.
  reported by Jorge Candeias, 11 Feb 1998
• Page about Guimarães 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 white and green. The arms are or, the Virgin Mary holding Jesus propper, both crowned or (no nimb