Mourão Municipality (Portugal) (original) (raw)
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Concelho de Mourão, Distrito de Évora
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[![[Mourão municipality]](http://www.crwflags.com/fotw/images/p/pt-mou.gif)
](../images/p/pt-mou.gif)2:3 image by Sérgio Horta, 26 Oct 1999
- About the Flag
- Version without Coat of Arms
- Presentation of Mourão See also:
- Mourão Communes
- Portugal External links:
- Page about Mourão 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 plain yellow background.
Sérgio Horta, 3 Dec 1999
Coat of arms
[![[Mourão municipality CoA]](http://www.crwflags.com/fotw/images/p/pt-mou)
On a blue field, a gold castle surmounted by a silver shield charged with 5 quinas (with 5 silver circles each) displayed like a cross, on the upper left canton a gold smiling sun, on the upper right canton a silver crescent moon, 4 silver tower mural crown and a white scroll with the words in black "C. M. MOURÃO".
Sérgio Horta, 3 Dec 1999
Version without Coat of Arms
Plain (monocoloured) Portuguese subnational flags are not allowed to have variations without arms: plain flags always carry the coat of arms.
Jorge Candeias, 18 July 1999
Presentation of Mourão
Mourão" is a town, belonging to Évora District, it has a 280 km² area, 3 freguesias (communes) and about 3730 inhabitants.
Sérgio Horta, 26 Oct 1999
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