Vila Franca de Xira Municipality (Portugal)

Last modified: 2005-08-26 by antonio martins
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• Page about the municipal flag and coat of arms of Vila Franca de Xira at Sérgio Horta’s website (in Portuguese).
  reported by Jorge Candeias, 29 Feb 1999
• Page about Vila Franca de Xira 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 red and white. The coat of arms is gules, between two fleurs de lis or, a tower argent masoned sable and open of the same metal. Mural crown argent with five visible towers (city rank) and white triply folded scroll reading in black upper case letters "NOTÁVEL | VILA FRANCA DE XIRA | CIDADE".
António Martins, 08 Aug 1999

The scroll is remarkable on several aspects:

1. First, this is one of those cases when a portuguese toponym really includes the