Sertã Municipality (Portugal)

Last modified: 2005-08-26 by antonio martins
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About the flag

The flag is quartered white over black and the coat of arms is gueles, a castle tower argent above a counter pale wavy azure fimbriated argent, chief or a casserole (!) sable, between two templar crosses: dexter the “round” one, usual in Portugal, and sinister, the older one, similar to Malta’s. The scroll is unusal for it reads in two lines instead of one: "SARTAGO STERNIT SARTAGINE HOSTES / VILA DA SERTÃ". The first line is latin and means «Sertã defeats its enemies with a casserole». This thing about casseroles is that "sertã" is a bit archaic word in portuguese for precisely casserole. This is “canting arms”!…
António Martins, 27 Oct 1998

Presentation of Sertã

A rural municipality, with 17 560 inhabitants in 14 communes covering 444 km². It is located on the current Castelo Branco District, future region of Beira Interior, old province of Beira Baixa