Mogadouro Municipality (Portugal)

Last modified: 2006-02-05 by antonio martins
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• About the flag
• Presentation of Mogadouro

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• Page about the municipal flag and coat of arms of Mogadouro at Sérgio Horta’s website (in Portuguese).
  reported by Jorge Candeias, 29 Feb 1999
• Page about Mogadouro at the Portuguese Municipalities’s Association website (incl. image of the arms)
  reported by António Martins, 18 Nov 2001

About the flag

The flag is quartered yellow and black, with the municipal coat of arms in the center: argent, a castle sable, litten and open of the first, a templar cross in the dexter chief and a Christ Order cross in the sinister. Mural crown of four towers (which, toghether with the quartered partition shows the municipality seat in town rank), and white scroll reading "VILA DE MOGADOURO" in black capitals. The castle, as usual, stands for the local castle and the two crosses relate to the monk-warrior orders that own the region after the conquest (Templars and, later, Christ Knights).
António Martins, 15 Dec 1998

Presentation of Mogadouro

Mogadouro, a 756 km² municipality in the Bragança district and in the old province of Tras-os-Montes e Alto Douro, with 11 720 inhabitants in 28 communes.
António Martins, 15 Dec 1998