White and red quarters and a coat of arms with a bridge, a red boat and two bees: the flag of Ponte da Barca plays on the name of the town.
Every fact about the flag, each with what it means.
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It is a flag divided into four quarters, four equal rectangles, alternating in white and red; the upper quarter by the flagpole is white. In the centre goes the arms of the town.
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, on the other hand, has had fueros since 1125
Flag and coat of arms were published on 12 March 1985 in the Diário da República
How it was born, how it has changed and what it means.
The flag of Ponte da Barca has four quarters, white and red, and a coat of arms with a bridge, a red boat and two golden bees. It is partly a canting arms: ponte da barca means “bridge of the boat”. The town stands on the banks of the Lima river, in the district of Viana do Castelo.
Flag and coat of arms were published on 12 March 1985 in the Diário da República. It is a very late date: similar towns got theirs in the thirties. The town, on the other hand, has had fueros since 1125.
No earlier versions of the flag or the coat of arms are known.
White and red in quarters
the ground of the towns.
Bridge and red boat with three oars
the name of the town and the crossing of the Lima river.
White tower between two golden bees
above. I have not found its meaning.
Mural crown of four towers
the band says “PONTE DA BARCA”.
The name comes from an old boat that crossed the Lima for the pilgrims of Santiago de Compostela. The bridge was built in the mid fourteenth century.
Flags of the World calls it “surprisingly late”: most of the town flags are from the thirties.
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Flag image: Autor desconocido, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 3.0.
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