Peniche Municipality (Portugal) (original) (raw)
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Concelho de Peniche, Distrito de Leiria
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](../images/p/pt-pni.gif)2:3 image by Sérgio Horta, 7 May 2007
- About the flag
- Version without coat of arms
- Previous flag
- Presentation of Peniche
- Other flags See also:
- Peniche Communes
- Portugal External links:
- Page about Peniche 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 fairily typical portuguese municipal flag, with the coat of arms centered on a red and black gyronny (city rank) background. Flag and arms adopted and published in the official journal Diário da República : III Série in 1993.11.25. These arms and flag were adopted upon the upgrade of the municipality seat to city status in 1988.02.01 and are a trivial change of the former arms and flag.
António Martins, 05 May 2007
Coat of arms
image by Sérgio Horta, 05 May 2007
The arms are Argent issuant from the second of four fesslets wavy Vert in counterchief a ship Sable dressed Gules bringing at the prow Saint Peter dressed Gules mantled Azure and holding in his dexter a key Or and at the bow Saint Paul dressed likewise and holding sword Or. Mural crown argent with five visible towers (city rank) and white scroll reading in black upper case letters "Cidade de Peniche".
António Martins, 5 May 2007
Version without the coat of arms
image by António Martins, 9 Apr 1997
This is the “civil” flag of Peniche Municipality (Concelho de Peniche), without the coat of arms: Black over red gironny.
António Martins, 9 Apr 1997
Plain (monocolored) portuguese subnational flags are not allowed to have armless variations: plain flags always carry the coat of arms.
Jorge Candeias, 18 Jul 1999
Previous flag
2:3 image by Sérgio Horta, 6 May 2007
The former arms and flag were adopted and published in the official journal Diário do Governo : I Série in 1935.03.01. These included the usual town attributes: four visible crown towers, "vila" in the scroll and red and black quarterly flag. Since the changes were trivial, the city flag was in use already in 1988-1993 — this is confirmed by my personal observation; gyronny plain flags replaced the quartered ones almost immediately, this surely due to manufactoring issues.
António Martins, 05 May 2007
Version without coat of arms
image by António Martins, 09 Apr 1997
Plain (monocolored) portuguese subnational flags are not allowed to have armless variations: plain flags always carry the coat of arms.
Jorge Candeias, 18 Jul 1999
Presentation of Peniche
Peniche municipality had 27 315 inhabitants in 2001 and consists of 6 communes covering 77,41 km². It is part of Leiria District, traditional province Estremadura, 1999 ref. adm. region Estremadura e Ribatejo, current C.C.R. / NUTS II Centro, and NUTS III Oeste.
António Martins, 5 May 2007
Peniche’s fortress, overhanging the ocean, was used as a jail for political prisoners till the “Carnation Revolution” of April 25th, 1974.
António Martins, 5 May 2007
Berlengas islands
The municipal territory of Peniche includes the Berlengas island group (<2 km², larger island 0,78 km²) 15 km off shore;). See my flag proposals online (hereand here); while these pages show the whole thing in a tongue-in-cheek micro-nation style, two copies of the flagwere made and hoisted locally (in private, unofficial manner) once or thrice.
António Martins, 05 May 2007
These do not have regular dwellers — apart from scientific and military personnel throughout the year, and many summertime visitors and municipal staff to assist those). Locally used/usable flags are:
- European Union
- Portugal
- Peniche municipality
- St. Peter Commune (one of the two urban communes, includes the islands as an afterthought; flagless; whenever its flag and arms get granted, they may be used on the main island, or not)
- Several flags of the Portuguese Navy, incl. Lighthouses department, Peniche Harbour administration, and officer’s rank insignia
- Any flags of the Portuguese Environment Ministry, its National Parks service and/or the Berlenga Nature Reservation
- Association of Berlenga’s Friends António Martins, 7 Jun 2010
Other flags
Association of Berlenga’s Friends
image by António Martins, 9 Apr 1997
The flag of the Association of Berlengas’s Friends (Associação dos Amigos da Berlenga) is a dull azure map of the island on a white cloth with white lettering "AAB"
António Martins, 9 Apr 1997
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