Lisbon Municipality (Portugal)

Lisboa

Last modified: 2005-08-26 by antonio martins
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• Page about the municipal flag and coat of arms of Lisboa at Sérgio Horta’s website (in Portuguese).
  reported by Jorge Candeias, 29 Feb 1999
• Page about Lisboa at the Portuguese Municipalities’s Association website (incl. image of the arms)
  reported by António Martins, 18 Nov 2001

About the flag

The municipal flag of Lisbon is a gironny of 8, black and white with or without the coat of arms in the middle. Proportions 1:1 or 2:3.
Pascal Vagnat, 14 Dec 1997

The flag is gyronny of eight, black over white; in the center, the coat of arms. These are: or, on a see of seven wavy fesses vert and argent, a sail ship sable, with rudder, one mast and respective ropes, all lined argent; flag and sails (furled in five “pockets”) of the same; at both ends of the ship, two ravens sable lined argent, each pointing to the center of the shield. Mural crown or with five apparent towers (capital city rank), collar of the Order of Tower and Sword, and white scroll with the motto "MUI NOBRE E SEMPRE LEAL CIDADE DE LISBOA" (most noble and always loyal city of Lisbon) in black upper case letters.
António Martins, 07 Mar 1999

The story behind this coat of arms relates to Saint Vincent, patron of the city (unlike Saint Anthony of Lisbon and Padova, who “just” born here). According to a legend this saint’s (uncorrupt) corpse was brought to Algarve, southern Portugal, and was later carried to Lisbon by ship, from the appropria