Alandroal Municipality (Portugal) (original) (raw)

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Concelho de Alandroal, Distrito de Évora

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[](../images/p/pt-adl.gif)2:3 image by Jorge Candeias, 7 July 1999

• About the Flag
• Version without Coat of Arms
• Presentation of Alandroal See also:
• Alandroal Communes
• Portugal External links:
• Page about Alandroal 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 quartered of yellow and black field.
Jorge Candeias, 18 Sep 1997

Coat of arms

[.gif)](../images/p/pt-adl%29.gif)image by Sérgio Horta, 18 Sep 1997

The flag is and the coat of arms has a silver field with a big green cross of Avis with a yellow three-towered castle over the intersection of the arms. In the free space at the bottom two “heraldic” black eagles face the cross, a latch Sable in dexter (bendy) and sinister (sinister bendy). Mural crown with four visible towers (town rank) and white scroll reading in black upper case letters "VILA DO ALNDROAL".
Jorge Candeias, 18 Sep 1997

Flag and arms adopted and published in Diário do Governo : I Série on 10 August 1936
Sérgio Horta, 18 Sep 1997

Version without Coat of Arms

[](../images/p/pt-adl0.gif)2:3 image by Jorge Candeias, 7 July 1999

Presentation of Alandroal

Alandroal is a town in the district of Évora (old province of Alto Alentejo), near the Spanish border.
Jorge Candeias, 18 Sep 1997

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