Lousada Municipality (Portugal) (original) (raw)

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[](../images/p/pt-lsd.gif)2:3 image by António Martins-Tuválkin, 6 Sep 2003

• About the Flag
• Version without Coat of Arms
• Presentation of Lousada See also:
• Lousada Communes
• Portugal External links:
• Page about Lousada 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 purple and yellow.
António Martins-Tuválkin, 6 Sep 2003

Coat of arms

[.gif)](../images/p/pt-lsd%29.gif)image by Sérgio Horta, 6 Nov 2008

The coat of arms is sable three corn ears or leaved vert and tied gules on a bordure argent eight grape bunches purple leaved vert. Mural crown argent with four visible towers (town rank) and white scroll reading in black upper case letters "VILA DE LOUSADA".
Meaning:
The toponym has to do with slate (lousa, in portuguese) but there is no trace of it on the arms.
António Martins-Tuválkin, 6 Sep 2003

Flag and arms were approved on 11 April 1939.
António Martins-Tuválkin, 6 Sep 2003

Version without Coat of Arms

[](../images/p/pt-lsd0.gif)2:3 image by António Martins-Tuválkin, Apr 2010

Presentation of Lousada

Lousada municipality had 44 598 inhabitants in 2000 (43 940 in 1990), and it is divided in 26 communes, covering 101 km². It belongs to the Porto District and to the old province of Douro Litoral.
António Martins-Tuválkin, 6 Sep 2003

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