Mafra Municipality (Portugal)

Last modified: 2005-08-26 by antonio martins
Keywords: mafra | vila de mafra | coat of arms: castle | tower | crescents: 2 | crescent: points up (white) | cross: avis |
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• About the flag
• Version without the coat of arms
• Presentation of Mafra

• Municipalities of Portugal
• Portugal

• Page about the municipal flag and coat of arms of Mafra at Sérgio Horta’s website (in Portuguese).
  reported by Jorge Candeias, 29 Feb 1999
• Page about Mafra 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 plain yellow background. The coat of arms is gules between two crescents upwards argent on a tower or litten and open of the field a cross fleury vert (Avis Order cross). Mural crown argent with four visible towers (town rank) and white scroll reading in black upper case letters "VILA DE MAFRA".
António Martins, 14 Dec 2003

Mafra is well known for its huge 16th century monastery, key element for Literature Nobel laureate Saramago’s novel