Eight green and yellow gores with pomegranates and grapes. Famalicão unveiled its flag on the same day it became a city: 14 August 1985.
Every fact about the flag, each with what it means.
Normal flagFIAV symbol: the form of the flag.
CivilFIAV symbol: who may fly the flag.YesIt carries the coat of arms on the cloth.The flag in the words of vexillology and heraldry.
It is a rectangular field divided into eight green and yellow gores (triangles that all start at the centre), alternating, with the city arms in the centre.
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 earlier versions of the flag and the arms were approved on 21 November 1935
A law of 14 August 1985 raised it to a city
How it was born, how it has changed and what it means.
The flag of Vila Nova de Famalicão has eight green and yellow gores (triangles), with arms showing three pomegranates among bunches of grapes. It is the flag of a city that was born and changed its symbols on the same day.
Famalicão was a town for centuries. A law of 14 August 1985 raised it to a city, and Flags of the World gives that same date for the current flag and arms. With the promotion, the ground became eight gores and the crown five towers, as in Fafe and Esposende.
The earlier versions of the flag and the arms were approved on 21 November 1935. Flags of the World does not describe them, and we have found no image.
1935-1985
Town flag and arms, approved on 21 November 1935. We do not know what they looked like.
1985
The city flag, the current one: eight green and yellow gores.
Green and yellow
they match the colours of the arms (green grapes and golden pomegranates). The sources consulted do not confirm it.
Black band with three open pomegranates
golden pomegranates with red seeds.
Three bunches of green grapes
two above and one below.
Crown of five towers
the sign of a city.
On 14 August 1985 Famalicão became a city, and on that same day the new flag and arms were approved.
King Sancho I gave a charter on 1 July 1205 to 40 settlers of a royal estate in Vila Nova. The present municipality was created on 21 March 1835.
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Flag image: Sérgio Horta, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 3.0.
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