Lagoa (Algarve) Municipality (Portugal) (original) (raw)

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Concelho de Lagoa, Distrito de Faro

image by António Martins-Tuválkin, 22 Jul 2004

About the flag
Presentation of Lagoa (Algarve)
Previous flags
Other flags
- Grupo Desportivo de Lagoa See also:
Lagoa Communes
Portugal External links:
Page about Lagoa (Algarve) at the Portuguese Municipalities’s Association website (incl. image of the arms)
reported by António Martins-Tuválkin, 18 Nov 2001

About the flag

It is a slightly atypical portuguese municipal flag, with the coat of arms centered on a background gyronny (meaning city rank) of yellow and black. The coat of arms is azure a almond tree in bloom trunked or and flowered argent flanked in chief with a christan king’s head dexter and a moor king’s head sinister (which is Algarve’s heraldic griffe). Mural crown argent with five visible towers (city rank)
António Martins-Tuválkin, 06 Sep 2003

After becoming a city, the scroll text is no longer set in two lines, being just the city name. (Thus confusing it with the identically named town in Azores…)
António Martins-Tuválkin, 07 Nov 2004

Presentation of Lagoa (Algarve)

Lagoa municipality had 20 453 inhabitants in 2000 (17 140 in 1990), and it is divided in 5 communes, covering 89 km2. It belongs to the Faro District and to the old province of Algarve.
António Martins-Tuválkin, 06 Sep 2003

Previous flags

193X-2002

image by António Martins-Tuválkin, 06 Sep 2003

Lagoa became a city lin 2002, and its symbols were upgraded accordingly: the arems now has a 5-towered mural crown and the flag background is now a gyronny of yellow and black. Changes are to be expected in the scroll as well; everything else remains the same.
Jorge Candeias, 09 Sep 2003

It had a white scroll reading in black upper case letters "VILA DE LAGOA" and in smaller type in a second line bellow (and this is the atypical part) "ALGARVE" — this is done to tell apart this municipality and town from another Lagoa municipality, in São Miguel island, Azores.
António Martins-Tuválkin, 06 Sep 2003

Other flags

Grupo Desportivo de Lagoa sport club

image by António Martins-Tuválkin, 07 Nov 2004

Apart from the text on the scroll, the main differenceis the background division: gyronny in the municipal flag, per saltire in the club flag.
António Martins-Tuválkin, 07 Nov 2004

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