Flag of Valença, the fortress city facing Tui: purple and white ground with arms bearing a bridge, a castle, the sun and the moon; it used to be a town flag.
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This entry shows the town flag of Valença: a quartered field, that is divided into four, in purple and white, with the arms in the centre; the current city flag carries eight triangles instead of the four quarters.
Each element and how many of the 1,390 flags in the catalogue carry it. In yellow, the rarest.
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The town received its charter from Sancho I in 1217, under the name Contrasta
In 1262 it came to be called Valença
According to Flags of the World, flag and arms were published on 29 December 1960, with…
Valença was elevated to a city on 12 June 2009
How it was born, how it has changed and what it means.
The flag of Valença has a purple and white ground with the city arms in the centre. The arms show a three-arched bridge, a castle, the sun, a crescent moon and two bunches of grapes. Valença is a fortress city of the Alto Miño, facing Tui, in Galicia (flag of Galicia).
The town received its charter from Sancho I in 1217, under the name Contrasta. In 1262 it came to be called Valença. According to Flags of the World, flag and arms were published on 29 December 1960, with a four-quartered ground, that of towns.
Valença was elevated to a city on 12 June 2009. Afterwards, according to Flags of the World, the flag moved to the city ground. The image in this entry is the town one, the only free image. I have not found the date of the change.
1960-2009
Four purple and white quarters, with the arms of the town.
After 2009
City flag: eight purple and white triangles, a crown of five towers and the scroll “Município de Valença”. No free image.
Purple and white
the colours of the ground. I have not found an explanation.
Three-arched bridge and castle
over blue and white waves.
Sun and crescent moon, grapes
figures of the arms, with no official explanation found.
Blue shield with five bezants
over the castle; the quinas of the flag of Portugal.
Saint Teotónio, considered the first Portuguese saint, was born in Valença and is its patron.
Before 1262 it was called Contrasta, the name Sancho I gave it in 1217.
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Flag image: Autor desconocido, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 3.0.
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