Seixal Municipality (Portugal)

Last modified: 2005-08-26 by antonio martins
Keywords: seixal | coat of arms: ship | pebble | ship | waves: 3 | hoe | hammer |
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• Presentation of Seixal

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• Page about the municipal flag and coat of arms of Seixal at Sérgio Horta’s website (in Portuguese).
  reported by Jorge Candeias, 29 Feb 1999
• Page about Seixal 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 yellow and blue. The coat of arms is gules under two hoes or crossed per saltire on a hammer of the same set in fess a local sailship argent dressed of the same issuant from a wavy fess azure charged with a fesslet argent above a counterchief of pebbles proper. Mural crown argent with five visible towers (city rank) and white scroll reading in black upper case letters "CIDADE DO SEIXAL".
António Martins, 16 Dec 2003

"Seixal" means "pebble ground", so the arms are partly canting. The other elements have obvious symbology, pertaining to the local connection with