Flag of white and green quarters of Monção, a town on the Minho: on the coat of arms, a woman with two loaves on a tower, which recalls a legend.
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It is a rectangular field divided into four quarters, white and green, with the arms of the town in the centre.
Each element and how many of the 1,390 flags in the catalogue carry it. In yellow, the rarest.
Every date in its story, at a glance.
The town is much older: it received its municipal charter on 12 March 1261
Flag and coat of arms were published on 24 June 1972 in the official gazette of the state
How it was born, how it has changed and what it means.
The flag of Monção has four quarters, white and green, with a coat of arms that tells a story: a woman on a tower holds two loaves. Monção is a town of the Alto Minho, next to Galicia (flag of Galicia), on the other side of the river.
Flag and coat of arms were published on 24 June 1972 in the official gazette of the state. The town is much older: it received its municipal charter on 12 March 1261.
No earlier versions of the flag or the coat of arms are known.
White and green
the colours of the quarters. The official description says argent, that is, white.
Woman with two loaves on a tower
according to tradition, Deu-la-Deu Martins, who saved the town from a siege.
Blue and white waves
the water, at the base of the coat of arms.
Motto on the border
“Deus o deu, Deus o há dado”.
Mural crown of four towers
the band says “MONÇÃO”.
According to tradition, in the fourteenth-century wars with Castile, Deu-la-Deu, wife of the castellan, threw the last loaf at the besiegers. They believed the town had plenty of food and left. It is a legend.
“Deus o deu, Deus o há dado” means “God gave it, God has given it”. It is written on the border of the coat of arms.
In many images the white comes out grey. The official description says “argent” and, according to a contributor to Flags of the World, it is confused with grey.
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Flag image: Autor desconocido, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 3.0.
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