Ribeira Grande Municipality (Portugal)

Last modified: 2005-08-26 by antonio martins
Keywords: ribeira grande | coat of arms | dove (yellow) | goshwak | star: 5 points (yellow) | bridge: 3 arches | waves: 3 | canting |
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• About the flag
• Presentation of Ribeira Grande

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• Page about the municipal flag and coat of arms of Ribeira Grande at Sérgio Horta’s website (in Portuguese).
  reported by Jorge Candeias, 29 Feb 1999
• Page about Ribeira Grande 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 gyronny (meaning city rank) of blue and white. The coat of arms is gules, a three arched masonry bridge argent, lined sable and shadowed azure, by a river of three wavy fesses, argent and azure, and under a five pointed star or, and a dove (or a goshawk?) of the same, holding an eschuteon charged with a saltire of five white bezants. Mural crown argent with five visible towers (