Celorico da Beira Municipality (Portugal)

Concelho de Celorico da Beira, Distrito da Guarda

Last modified: 2016-02-24 by klaus-michael schneider
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2:3 image by António MartinsTuválkin, 22 Aug 1999

2:3 image by Sérgio Horta, modified by Klaus-Michael Schneider and Peter Hans van den Muijzenberg, 2 Oct 2014

• About the Flag
• Version without Coat of Arms
• Presentation of Celorico da Beira

• Celorico da Beira Communes
• Portugal

• Page about Celorico da Beira 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 fairly typical Portuguese municipal flag, with the coat of arms centred on a field quarterly (meaning town rank) of red and yellow (see left flag image above) or yellow and red (see right flag image above).
António Martins-Tuválkin, 22 Aug 1999

The coat of arms is sable, over a castle or masoned sable with port and windows sable, an eagle or, holding a fish argent, under five eight pointed stars or set in quincunx, the middle one inside a crescent or pointing dexter. Mural crown argent with four visible towers (town rank) and white scroll reading in black upper case letters "CELORICO DA BEIRA", reported 1999 (see left flag image above).
In another variant the castle has port and windows Gules, the eagle is proper (i.e. brown) and stars and crescent are Argent (see right flag image above).
Please note that the usual depictions of this coat of arms show these unusal eight pointed stars, as if made of two superimposed squares, one rotated 45°. Note also that there should be something red on the arms, so that colour could be used in the background (the eagle’s beak and/or claws?), but the source image was too undetailed.
António Martins-Tuválkin, 22 Aug 1999

Flag and arms were approved on 30 August 1935
Ralf Hartemink, 30 Aug 2014

Version without Coat of Arms

Presentation of Celorico da Beira

Celorico da Beira municipality had 8656 inhabitants in 1990, and it is divided in 16 communes (in 2014) , covering 251 km². It belongs to the Guarda District and to the old province of Beira Alta.
António Martins-Tuválkin, 22 Aug 1999

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