Fronteira Municipality (Portugal) (original) (raw)
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Concelho de Fronteira, Distrito de Portalegre
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[](../images/p/pt-ftr.gif)2:3 image by António Martins-Tuválkin, 15 Dec 1998
- About the flag
- Version without the coat of arms
- Variation with bicolour field
- Variation with red scroll
- Presentation of Fronteira See also:
- Fronteira Communes
- Portugal External links:
- Page about the municipal flag and coat of arms of Fronteira at Sérgio Horta’s website (in Portuguese).
reported by Jorge Candeias, 29 Feb 1999 - Page about Fronteira at the Portuguese Municipalities’s Association website (incl. image of the arms)
reported by António Martins, 18 Nov 2001
About the flag
Among some legal descriptions of flags in an old edition of_Grande Enciclopédia Luso-Brasileira_ (Brasilian-Portuguese Great Enciclopaedia), there’s Fronteira, said to have a plain white background.
António Martins, 12 May 2000
Coat of arms
[.gif)](../images/p/pt-ftr%29.gif)image by Klaus-Michael Schneider, 2 Aug 2014
The municipal arms shows in the center of the flag: gules, a castle argent, open sable and charged with a cross fleury vert (Avis Order cross). Mural crown of four towers (which shows the municipality seat intown rank), and scroll reading "FRONTEIRA" in capitals. The castle, as usual, stands for the local castle and the cross relates to the monk-warrior order that own the region after the conquest (Avis Order).
António Martins, 15 Dec 1998
Version without the coat of arms
Plain (monocoloured) portuguese subnational flags are not allowed to have armless variations: plain flags always carry the coat of arms.
Jorge Candeias, 18 Jul 1999
Variation with bicolour background
image by António Martins, 15 Dec 1998
Although the flag of Fronteira municipality is reported in [drn94] to be a highly atypical (and illegal) vertical bicolor of red and green that is a report we at Lusovex were never able to verify.
António Martins, 12 May 2000
According to this report [drn94], the flag is very unusual, party green and red; this is said to be to stress the “portugueseness” of the town, especially because "fronteira" means "border line" — the fact that this municipality is not on the border with Spain seems to be irrelevant. (The name cames from a time when it did, with the portuguese-arab border of the 13th century…)
António Martins, 15 Dec 1998
Variation with red scroll
image by António Martins, 15 Dec 1998
Red scroll reading "FRONTEIRA" in white capitals is yet another oddity.
António Martins, 15 Dec 1998
Presentation of Fronteira
Fronteira, a 245 km2 municipality in thePortalegre district and in the old province of Alto Alentejo, with 3990 inhabitants in 3 communes.
António Martins, 15 Dec 1998
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