Vila Nova de Poiares Municipality (Portugal)

Last modified: 2005-08-26 by antonio martins
Keywords: vila nova de poiares | coat of arms: tree | swallow | butterfly | silk | trees: 2 | tree: pine tree | pine |
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• About the flag
• Version without the coat of arms
• Presentation of Vila Nova de Poiares

• Municipalities of Portugal
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• Page about the municipal flag and coat of arms of Vila Nova de Poiares at Sérgio Horta’s website (in Portuguese).
  reported by Jorge Candeias, 29 Feb 1999
• Page about Vila Nova de Poiares 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 on a plain green background. The coat of arms is argent between two pine trees crowned vert and trunked and fruited sable two swallows set in pale flying downwards the upper one dexterwards and the bottom one sinisterwards bellow a butterfly displayed of the same. Mural crown argent with four visible towers (town rank) and white scroll reading in black upper case letters "VILA NOVA DE POIARES