Mangualde Municipality (Portugal)

Concelho de Mangualde, Distrito de Viseu

Last modified: 2014-11-22 by klaus-michael schneider
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2:3 image by Sérgio Horta, 6 Dec 2006

2:3 image by Klaus-Michael Schneider, 5 Nov 2014

• About the Flag
• Former Flag (1963-1996)
• Version without Coat of Arms
• Presentation of Mangualde

• Mangualde Communes
• Portugal

About the Flag

It is a quite typical Portuguese municipal flag, with the coat of arms centred on a gyronny background (city rank) of green and yellow.
António Martins-Tuválkin, 6 Dec 2006

The arms are vert issuant from a mound Sable a tower Or with port and windows Sable (left flag image above) or masoned Sable (right flag image above) under a 5-point star argent. Mural crown Argent with five visible towers (city rank) and white scroll reading in black upper case letters "MANGUALDE". (right flag was spotted by Klaus-Michael Schneider on 29 September 2013 in front of the local fire brigade precinct)
António Martins-Tuválkin, 6 Dec 2006

Former Flag (1963-1996)

Mangualde was upgraded to city status on 23 August 1986, town attributes remaining legally on the flag and arms for almost 10 years. The previous version of the arms had an identical shield (the only heraldic difference was the number of towers (4) in the crown), but the flag was plain yellow.
I don't know which flag was used in/by Mangualde during the 10 years between it becoming a city and the official arms and flag reflecting this. The change from 4 to 5 towers is trivial and could be made "avant la loi" (formally illegal, but acceptable in practice) and plain flags, unlike quartered flags, can be used by/for (municipalities seated in) cities, so a plain yellow flag with a five-tower crown is plausible. Alternatively, a gyronny flag may have been devised and used "avant la loi" in 1986-1996, but the second colour (or indeed both) is not a trivial choice: The blazon includes or, vert, argent and sable and any pair of these would be fit for the background. However, perhaps the law of 1996 simply made legal a design already in use. Research is necessary.
António Martins-Tuválkin, 6 Dec 2006

Flag and coat of arms adopted and published in the official journal Diário do Governo : III Série on 1 June 1996, former flag and arms in Diário do Governo : II Série on 13 December 1963 Klaus-Michael Schneider, 5 Nov 2014

Version without Coat of Arms

Presentation of Mangualde

Mangualde municipality had 21 158 inhabitants in 2000, and it is divided in 18 communes, covering 219,3 km². It belongs to: Viseu District, traditional province Beira Alta, 1999 ref. adm. region Beira Litoral, and C.C.R./NUT2 Centro.
António Martins-Tuválkin, 6 Dec 2006

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