Plain green field with the arms of Vila Verde, in the north of Portugal: the colour says the name of the town, which means “green town”.
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It is a plain rectangular green 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.
Every date in its story, at a glance.
The municipality is somewhat older: it was born in 1855
Flag and arms were published on 25 August 1936 in the Diário do Governo
How it was born, how it has changed and what it means.
The flag of Vila Verde is a plain green field, with the municipal arms in the centre. It is a “canting” flag: the colour says the name, because vila verde means “green town”. It is in the district of Braga, in the northwest of Portugal.
Flag and arms were published on 25 August 1936 in the Diário do Governo, the official gazette of the time (today the Diário da República). The municipality is somewhat older: it was born in 1855, when the small concejos of Prado, Penela and Pico de Regalados disappeared and joined into one.
No earlier versions of the flag or the arms are known: the 1936 one is the first and has not changed since.
Green
the ground plays on the name of the town.
Two poplars with vines
each tree has a twined vine with a purple bunch. I have not found an official explanation.
Red mill wheel
at the top of the arms.
Blue wavy band
below, the usual way of drawing water.
Mural crown of four towers
the sign of a town. The white scroll reads “VILA VERDE”.
Only the green ground plays on the name. No figure on the arms (poplars, vines, mill) represents the word “green”.
Vila Verde had 58 freguesias (parishes) in 2001. After the 2013 reorganisation there were 33.
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Flag image: Autor desconocido, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 3.0.
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