Loulé Municipality (Portugal)

Last modified: 2005-08-26 by antonio martins
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• About the flag
• Variation with white shield
• Variation with purple shield
• Presentation of Loulé
• Unofficial flags

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• Page about the municipal flag and coat of arms of Loulé at Sérgio Horta’s website (in Portuguese).
  reported by Jorge Candeias, 29 Feb 1999
• Municipal website, with wrong flag depiction (see bellow).
  reported by Dov Gutterman, 13 Jul 1999
• Page about Loulé at the Portuguese Municipalities’s Association website (incl. image of the arms)
  reported by António Martins, 18 Nov 2001

About the flag

The flag is a gironny of white and purple.
Jorge Candeias, 22 Jan 1999

Variation with white shield

This depiction, from the Municipal website, is a good proof that you shouldn’t believe everything you see on the web. This image is a very wrong depiction of the flag of Loule. I should know — Loulé is at about 10 km from where I’m writing and I’ve seen the flag in the cloth (and photos of it). It also proves that even municipal websites bring wrong info and/or pictures. If I recall correctly, this site had been reported already a long time ago. Sad that it remains the same…
Jorge Candeias, 15 Jul 1999

Variation with purple shield

Reported erroneous versions with white and purple instead.
António Martins, 06 Feb 1999

Presentation of Loulé

Municipality in the district of Faro (Algarve old province).
Jorge Candeias, 22 Jan 1999

Unofficial flags

Current logo flag?

I failed so far to see the new logo on a flag. It is also triangular, but follows more closely the new trends of “logology”, that is, is a bunch of seemingly hand-drawn lines and shapes. If it comes out to be included in a flag, I assume it will be a white flag, since that is the colour that gets a better harmony with the thing.
Jorge Candeias, 13 Feb 1999

Previous logo flag

The old logo on bedsheet is a blue field with "TERRA DE LOULÉ" in white capitals below a triangular logo showing a stylized landscape of the region.
Jorge Candeias, 13 Feb 1999