Lagoa (Algarve) Municipality (Portugal)

Last modified: 2005-08-26 by antonio martins
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• Page about the municipal flag and coat of arms of Lagoa (Algarve) at Sérgio Horta’s website (in Portuguese).
  reported by Jorge Candeias, 29 Feb 1999
• Page about Lagoa (Algarve) 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 slightly atypical portuguese municipal flag, with the coat of arms centered on a background gyronny (meaning city rank) of yellow and black. The coat of arms is azure a almond tree in bloom trunked or and flowered argent flanked in chief with a christan king’s head dexter and a moor king’s head sinister (which is Algarve’s heraldic griffe). Mural crown argent with five visible towers (city rank) and white scroll reading in black upper case letters "VILA DE LAGOA" and in small