Oeiras Municipality (Portugal)

Last modified: 2005-08-26 by antonio martins
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• Page about the municipal flag and coat of arms of Oeiras at Sérgio Horta’s website (in Portuguese).
  reported by Jorge Candeias, 29 Feb 1999
• Arms page at the official municipal website.
• Page about Oeiras 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 background quarterly (meaning town rank) of white and purple. The coat of arms is sable on a chain of four crescents argent hollowed azure (uma cadena de quatro cescentes de prata vazia de blau) flanked in chief by two bunches of grapes leaved or and fruited purpure and above a wavy fess argent charged with a fesslet azure and a fesslet vert in counter chief a swan argent beaked and membered or charg