Four black and white quarters with a black castle among bunches of grapes. It was approved in 1948, twenty years after the first proposal.
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It is a rectangular field divided into four quarters, that is, four equal rectangles, in black and white, with the coat of arms of the town in the centre.
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Proposal of the SHAAP, recorded in a minute of 13 June 1928
The heraldry section of the Portuguese Archaeologists' Association (SHAAP) fixed the symbols…
The Ministry of the Interior approved them on 17 February 1948 and they were published…
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The flag of Celorico de Basto has four quarters, that is, four rectangles, black and white, with the coat of arms in the centre. The coat of arms shows a black castle, two bunches of grapes and some waves of water. It took twenty years to be approved.
The heraldry section of the Portuguese Archaeologists’ Association (SHAAP) fixed the symbols on 18 April 1947. The Ministry of the Interior approved them on 17 February 1948 and they were published on 24 February. According to Flags of the World, the colours of the flag are those of the coat of arms: silver and black. It is a town, so the ground is in quarters and not in eight gironnies.
There was an earlier proposal, which was never approved.
1928
Proposal of the SHAAP, recorded in a minute of 13 June 1928. A coat of arms with no castle, with a wavy fess between four bunches of grapes, and a flag of purple and green quarters. It was never approved.
1948
Current flag: white and black, with the castle on the coat of arms.
Black and white
silver and black, the main colours of the coat of arms.
Black castle
the castle of the town.
Bunches of purple grapes
the vineyards of the area.
Waves
the River Basto. Its neighbour Cabeceiras de Basto also carries a wavy fess.
Between the minute of 1928 and the approval of 1948 the design changed. Flags of the World speaks of comings and goings between the SHAAP and the authorities.
If the 1928 proposal had been approved, Celorico would have had a flag of purple and green quarters.
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