Four white and purple quarters with a coat of arms that plays with the name: a wavy fess, the River Basto, between hunting horns.
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It is a rectangular field divided into four quarters, that is, four equal rectangles, in white and purple, with the coat of arms of the town in the centre.
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The flag of Cabeceiras de Basto has four quarters, that is, four rectangles, in white and purple, with the coat of arms in the centre. “Cabeceiras” means the sources of a river, and the coat of arms says so with a wavy fess.
According to Flags of the World, the flag and the coat of arms were published in the Diário da República on 19 March 1987. It is a very late date: most municipal flags in northern Portugal were approved in the thirties and forties. Since Cabeceiras is a town, the ground is in quarters and not in eight gironnies.
No earlier version is known. Its neighbour Celorico de Basto, with which it shares the river, did have an earlier proposal that was not approved.
White and purple
the colours of the quarters. The sources consulted do not explain them.
Wavy fess of silver
the River Basto. The name of the town means “cabeceiras do Basto”, the sources of the Basto.
Two hunting horns
we did not find their meaning.
Eight bunches of purple grapes
probably the vineyards of the area, according to Flags of the World.
A coat of arms that represents the name of the place with a drawing is called canting arms. Here the wavy fess is the River Basto.
Flags of the World considers that a very late date for a Portuguese municipality. Celorico de Basto, its neighbour, has had its flag since 1948.
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Flag image: Sérgio Horta, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 3.0.
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