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![[Viana do Castelo municipality]](../images/p/pt-vct.gif)
The flag is quartered black over yellow and the coat of arms is gules,
on a sea of three waves, azure and argent (usually it would be vert and argent,
for blue stands for rivers, not see…), a galion or, draped argent and bearing
on the main sail a cross of five eschuteons azure,
each charged with a saltire of bezants argent. And on a cheif azure a castle or
(canting arms, as "castelo" means "castle").
The weird thing here is that Viana do Castelo has
city rank and thus the coat of arms crown is
five-towered, but the flag itself is and remains quartered, as those of
towns…
António Martins, 27 Oct 1998
A city in northwestern Portugal, currently in the Viana do Castelo District, once in the province