Vendas Novas Municipality (Portugal)

Last modified: 2005-08-26 by antonio martins
Keywords: vendas novas | coat of arms: tree | tree: cork oak | grenade | bomb |
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• Page about the municipal flag and coat of arms of Vendas Novas at Sérgio Horta’s website (in Portuguese).
  reported by Jorge Candeias, 29 Feb 1999
• Page about Vendas Novas 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 yellow. The coat of arms is sable a cork oak vert glaned and decorked gules flanked by to bombs or exploding gules and or. Mural crown argent with five visible towers (city rank) and white scroll reading in black upper case letters "CIDADE DE VENDAS NOVAS".
António Martins, 19 Nov 2003

The toponym "vendas novas" means something like "new sellyards", but the arms allude to something different: the local importance of cork extraction and the large local artillery facility.
Ant