Eight white and red triangles with a castle over the river Tagus: the flag of Santarém follows the Portuguese municipal system fixed in 1935.
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In the 1930s Portugal regulated the symbols of its municipalities: each received a flag with…
The flag and the arms were published on 15 March 1935 in the Diário do Governo
How it was born, how it has changed and what it means.
The flag of Santarém has eight triangles, four white and four red, with the city arms in the centre. The arms show a castle over a wavy band representing the river Tagus. Santarém is the capital of the district of the same name, in the Ribatejo.
In the 1930s Portugal regulated the symbols of its municipalities: each received a flag with its arms in the centre and a ground that indicates its category. Santarém, being a city, got the eight-triangle ground. The flag and the arms were published on 15 March 1935 in the Diário do Governo, the official gazette now called the Diário da República.
There are no earlier documented versions: the 1935 one is the first and has not changed. A variant exists with the mural crown in gold instead of silver, but the design is the same.
White and red gored ground
the eight triangles are the signal that Santarém is a city.
Silver castle
the castle of Santarém, with red doors and windows, on a blue field.
Portuguese shield
over the castle are the quinas, the blue shields of the flag of Portugal.
Wavy band
the river Tagus, which passes at the foot of the city.
Collar of the Tower and Sword
a Portuguese decoration surrounding the arms.
Mural crown of five towers
the sign of a city.
According to legend, Saint Iria (Irene), a Visigoth martyr from Tomar, had a body that remained intact and reached Santarém. The city took its name from the saint.
The Romans founded it in the second century BC under the name Scalabis and it was the capital of one of the zones of Lusitania.
The flag has also been made with a golden crown, a variant recorded by Flags of the World.
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Flag image: Zloyel, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 3.0.
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