Yellow and purple quarters and a coat of arms with the four-arched bridge over the Lima river: the flag of Ponte de Lima is from 1938.
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It is a flag divided into four quarters, four equal rectangles, alternating in yellow and purple; the upper quarter by the flagpole is yellow. 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 is much older: it received its fueros on 4 March 1125
Flag and coat of arms were approved on 25 June 1938
How it was born, how it has changed and what it means.
The flag of Ponte de Lima has four quarters, yellow and purple, and the arms of the town in the centre. The arms show its four-arched bridge over the Lima river, with a cross and two towers. Ponte de Lima, in the Alto Minho, is often called the oldest town in Portugal.
Flag and coat of arms were approved on 25 June 1938, according to Flags of the World. They followed the rule of the time: towns used quarters and cities eight triangles. The town is much older: it received its fueros on 4 March 1125, from Queen Teresa and her son Afonso Henriques, the first king of Portugal.
No earlier versions of the flag or the coat of arms are known. The district capital, Viana do Castelo, also uses four quarters, though black and yellow.
Yellow and purple in quarters
the ground of the towns.
Golden four-arched bridge
the Roman and medieval bridge over the Lima, which gives the town its name. Below, white and blue waves.
Golden cross between two towers
over the bridge.
Mural crown of four towers
the band says “VILA DE PONTE DE LIMA”.
It is called that because of its fueros of 1125, granted by Queen Teresa and her son.
According to a legend, the Roman soldiers did not want to cross the river because they believed it erased memory. The commander crossed it and called them one by one by name.
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Flag image: Autor desconocido, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 3.0.
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