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Flag of Esposende

Eight yellow and blue gironnies with Our Lady of Esposende and a three-masted sailing ship. It was debuted in 1995, when the town had already become a city.

Flag of Esposende
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The flag, in figures

Every fact about the flag, each with what it means.

Proportions
3:44 wide for every 3 high. 22 flags in the catalogue share it.
Properties
Normal flagFIAV symbol: the form of the flag.
Use
CivilFIAV symbol: who may fly the flag.
Adopted
199527 April 1995 · 31 years ago
Colours
  • yellow
  • blue
Reference shades: the official one may vary slightly.
Coat of arms
YesIt carries the coat of arms on the cloth.
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Take a closer look

  1. The gyronny cloth

  2. 1

    The coat of arms

  3. 2

    The mural crown

  4. 3

    The scroll with the name

How it is described

The flag in the words of vexillology and heraldry.

Vexillological description

It is a field —the cloth of the flag —gyronny in yellow and blue: the field is split into eight gironnies that all come out of the centre, with the coat of arms of the city in the middle.

Field
eight gironnies (triangular wedges that come out of the centre), four yellow and four blue, alternating.
Coat of arms
in the centre; a white figure on a blue ground can be seen and, above it, the crown of five towers of a city.
No ornaments
there is no canton (the rectangle of the upper corner by the flagpole, the pole), no border and no text.

What it carries

Each element and how many of the 1,390 flags in the catalogue carry it. In yellow, the rarest.

Its history in dates

Every date in its story, at a glance.

  1. 1572

    Esposende was a town from 1572 and a city from 2 July 1993

  2. 1985

    The first versions had been published on 13 February 1985: a flag of four blue and yellow quarters…

  3. 1995

    It changed in 1995 because the town had become a city

The full story

How it was born, how it has changed and what it means.

The flag of Esposende has eight yellow and blue gironnies (triangles). In the centre it carries the coat of arms, with Our Lady of Esposende over a three-masted sailing ship. It changed in 1995 because the town had become a city.

How it came about

Esposende was a town from 1572 and a city from 2 July 1993. The current flag and coat of arms were published in the Diário da República on 27 April 1995, according to Flags of the World. They are a very similar version to the previous one, with the crown of five towers of a city and the ground of eight gironnies.

How it has changed

The first versions had been published on 13 February 1985: a flag of four blue and yellow quarters and a crown of four towers, that of a town. We have not found a free image of that flag.

  1. 1985-1995

    Town flag: four blue and yellow quarters, with the coat of arms and a crown of four towers.

  2. Current banner of Esposende: yellow and blue gironnies with the coat of arms of the Virgin and the sailing ship

    1995

    City flag: eight gironnies and a crown of five towers. As in Braga, the centre is occupied by a Virgin.

What it means

  • Blue and yellow

    they are the colours of the coat of arms (blue ground, golden stars). The sources consulted do not explain them.

  • Our Lady of Esposende

    dressed in silver, with a blue mantle and a golden halo.

  • Five golden stars

    they surround the Virgin.

  • Three-masted sailing ship

    Esposende is on the coast.

Fun facts

  1. There are versions with the colours reversed

    Flags of the World warns that some images draw the blue and yellow gironnies in the wrong order by mistake.

  2. City in 1993, new flag in 1995

    Being raised to city status forced a change of the ground and the crown of the flag, as happened in Fafe.

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How much have you learnt?

Test what you have read about the flag of Esposende.

  1. 1. Which one is the flag of Esposende?

  2. 2. Which of these elements appears on the flag?

  3. 3. In which year was the current flag adopted?

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Credits

Flag image: Sérgio Horta, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 3.0.

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