Last modified: 2005-08-26 by antonio martins
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![[Montemor-o-Novo municipality]](../images/p/pt-mmn.gif)
It is a quite typical portuguese municipal flag, with the coat of arms
centered on a background gyronny (meaning city
rank) of white and red. The coat of arms is argent, a three arched
masonry bridge argent, lined sable, by a river of six wavy fesses, argent
and azure, before a mound sable, topped with a castle azure, opened void,
between a moon and a sun gules, in chief. Mural crown argent with five
visible towers (city rank) and white scroll
reading in black upper case letters "CIDADE DE MONTEMOR-O-NOVO".
António Martins, 21 Mar 1999
The name means «Main hill, the new one» (canting arms), because we have a Montemor-o-Velho, also. There is a castle in the city, alright, and also some bridges and streams, but that is usual. As for the sun and moon, all I can say is that, apart from the obvious moor connection (but then, what’s the sun?), the Order of Sant’Iago had it’s purple cross-sword usually placed between a sun and moon. The cross-sword shows usually as a symbol of links to this or