Sobral de Monte Agraço Municipality (Portugal)

Last modified: 2005-08-26 by antonio martins
Keywords: sobral de monte agraço | vila do sobral de monte agraço | coat of arms: tree | coat of arms: bordure | tree: cork oak |
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• Presentation of Sobral de Monte Agraço

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• Page about the municipal flag and coat of arms of Sobral de Monte Agraço at Sérgio Horta’s website (in Portuguese).
  reported by Jorge Candeias, 29 Feb 1999
• Page about Sobral de Monte Agraço 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 of white and green. The coat of arms is argent on an earthy rocky mound proper a cork oak tree proper on a bordure sable eleven towers argent litten and open gules. Mural crown argent with four visible towers (town rank) and white scroll reading in black upper case letters "VILA DO SOBRAL DE MONTE AGRAÇO".
António Martins, 16 Dec 2003

"Monte" means "hill" and "sobral" is "cork oak wood", so the ar