São Vicente, São Paulo State (Brazil)

Last modified: 2008-08-02 by ian macdonald
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image by Jorge Candeias, 1 December 2005

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About the Flag of São Vicente

Source: http://www.kingnet.com.br/tonga/saovicente.

The flag is white with a wide purplish red border charged with 8 yellow crosses and has a dark blue lion rampant in the white panel. This is basically a banner of the municipal arms, although some differences in shade are apparent. I'm not so sure that the border colour that appeared in the sources we have is the right one, since the border in the coat of arms is just red. There's also a difference between the shade of the lion, purple in the coat of arms, blue in the flag, but here I believe the difference is too big to be anything other than real.

Another page showing the flag (and the arms) can now be found at http://www.novomilenio.inf.br/sv/svhino.htm.

São Vicente is one of the suburban municipalities that surrounds the big metropolis of São Paulo, occupying an area of 148 sq.km (rather small for Brazilian standards) inhabited by nearly 315,000 people. It bears the distinction of having been the very first town founded by the Portuguese in the Americas, back in 1532.
Jorge Candeias, 1 December 2005