Yellow flag of Vila Nova de Cerveira with a crowned golden deer on the arms: “cerveira” comes from “cervo”, deer.
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It is a plain yellow rectangular field, with the town arms in the centre.
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 is much older: King Dinis gave it a charter in 1321 to repopulate the frontier with Castile
Flag and arms were published on 16 February 1972
How it was born, how it has changed and what it means.
The flag of Vila Nova de Cerveira is yellow, plain, with the town arms in the centre. The arms show a golden deer on a green ground, with a crown on its head. It is a “canting” coat of arms: cerveira comes from cervo, “deer”. The town lies by the Miño, facing Galicia (flag of Galicia).
Flag and arms were published on 16 February 1972, in the official gazette of the state. The town is much older: King Dinis gave it a charter in 1321 to repopulate the frontier with Castile.
No earlier versions of the flag or the arms are known.
Plain yellow
the ground of the flag.
Golden deer on green
the name of the town, in drawing.
Blue shield with five bezants
over the head of the deer; the quinas of the flag of Portugal, as in Vizela.
Mural crown of four towers
the scroll reads “VILA NOVA DE CERVEIRA”.
Arms that draw the name of the place are called canting. Here the deer says “cerveira”.
Dinis founded the “villa nova” after the Treaty of Alcañices of 1297, which fixed the frontier with Castile.
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Flag image: Autor desconocido, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 3.0.
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