Eight yellow and blue gironnies with the castle of the city that gave the Braganza dynasty its name: the flag of Bragança was published in 1935.
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It is a rectangular field with a 2:3 ratio divided into eight gironnies, which are eight triangles that start at the centre and reach the edges. They alternate yellow and blue, and in the middle goes the coat of arms of the city.
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Bragança is a city in north-eastern Portugal, near Spain, and it gave its name to the family that…
It was the time when the Portuguese town councils adapted their symbols to the rules of 1930
Flag and coat of arms were published in the Diário do Governo (I Série) on 27 April 1935
How it was born, how it has changed and what it means.
The flag of Bragança (Braganza in Spanish) is yellow and blue, in eight gironnies, with the coat of arms of the city’s castle in the centre. Bragança is a city in north-eastern Portugal, near Spain, and it gave its name to the family that ruled the country from 1640 to 1910.
Flag and coat of arms were published in the Diário do Governo (I Série) on 27 April 1935. It was the time when the Portuguese town councils adapted their symbols to the rules of 1930. Those rules required city flags to be divided into eight gironnies, in the main colours of the coat of arms, like that of Lisbon.
The coat of arms bears a castle of gold with blue windows, five gold stars above it and, according to Flags of the World, the arms of Sancho I: five blue small shields in a cross. Hence the yellow and the blue.
I did not find a Bragança flag before the one of 1935. The town council also uses a modern logo, with a stylised castle, but that is not the official flag.
Before 1935
I did not find any flag or coat of arms documented before those of 1935.
1935
Current official flag and coat of arms, in yellow and blue. Their colours do not come from the flag of Portugal: city flags take the colours of their coat of arms.
Yellow and blue
the colours of the gold castle with blue windows and of the quinas small shields.
Castle
the castle of Bragança, the symbol of the border city.
Five gold stars
they go above the castle.
Blue small shields
the arms of Sancho I, a Portuguese king.
Mural crown and collar
they mark that it is a city and that it holds the decoration of the Order of the Tower and the Sword.
The house of Braganza gave Portugal its kings from 1640 to 1910 and Brazil its emperors from 1822 to 1889. The family’s castle, from the twelfth century, still stands in this city.
Besides the traditional coat of arms and flag, the town council uses a modern logo by Rui Carvalho, with a castle wall that forms an “M”.
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