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Penafiel Municipality (Portugal)

image by Sérgio Horta, 09 May 2007

About the flag
Version without the coat of arms
Presentation of Penafiel PNF

See also:

External links:

Page about the municipal flag and coat of arms of Penafiel at Sérgio Horta’s website (in Portuguese).
reported by Jorge Candeias, 29 Feb 1999
Page about Penafiel at the Portuguese Municipalities’s Association website (incl. image of the arms)
reported by António Martins, 18 Nov 2001

About the flag

It is a fairily typical portuguese municipal flag, with the coat of arms centered on a white and red gyronny (city rank) background. Flag and arms adopted and published in the official journal Diário da República : I Série in 1984.06.18, an unusually late date.
António Martins, 09 May 2007

Coat of arms

image by Sérgio Horta, 10 May 2007

The arms are Azure between two swords Argent pointing upwards an eagle displayed Or armed and langued Sable and charged with a Christ Knights Order cross. Mural crown argent with five visible towers (city rank) and white scroll reading in black upper case letters "Cidade de Penafiel".
António Martins, 09 May 2007

Version without the coat of arms

image by António Martins, 2010

Plain (monocolored) portuguese subnational flags are not allowed to have armless variations: plain flags always carry the coat of arms.
Jorge Candeias, 18 Jul 1999

Presentation of Penafiel

Penafiel municipality had 71 801 inhabitants in 2001 and consists of 38 communes covering 212,82 km². It is part of Porto District, traditional province Douro Litoral, 1999 ref. adm. region Entre Douro e Minho, C.C.R. / NUTS II Norte, and NUTS III Tâmega. "Penafiel" is a portmanteau for "pena fiel", which means something "loyal cliff"; no canting.
António Martins, 09 May 2007

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