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![[Matosinhos municipality]](../images/p/pt-mts.gif)
2:3 image by Sérgio Horta, 13 Jul 2007
It is a fairly typical Portuguese municipal flag, with the coat of arms centred on a green
and white gyronny field (city rank).
António Martins-Tuválkin, 5 Apr 2007
![[Matosinhos municipality CoA]](../images/p/pt-mts).gif)
image by Sérgio Horta,
The arms are barry wavy of Argent and Vert, over all three dolphins Sable emphasized Or ordered 2:1. Mural crown Argent with five visible towers (city rank) and white scroll reading in black upper case letters "CIDADE DE MATOSINHOS".
Meaning:
António Martins-Tuválkin, 5 Apr 2007
Flag and arms adopted and published in the official journal Diário da República : III Série on 22 March 1986. These arms and flag were adopted upon the upgrade of the municipality seat to city status in 28 June 1984 and are a trivial change of the former arms and flag.
António Martins-Tuválkin, 5 Apr 2007
![[Matosinhos municipality plain]](../images/p/pt-mts0.gif)
2:3 image by António Martins-Tuválkin, Apr 2010
Plain (monocoloured) Portuguese subnational flags are not allowed to have variations without arms: plain flags always carry the coat of arms.
Jorge Candeias, 18 July 1999
![[Matosinhos municipality 1986-1994]](../images/p/pt-mts1.gif)
2:3 image by Sérgio Horta, 7 Apr 2007
The pre 1984.06.28 arms and flag were adopted and published in the official journal Diário do Governo : II Série in 1966.11.07, a remakably late date. These included the usual town attributes, four visible crown towers
and plain green flag.
António Martins, 5 Apr 2007
Plain (monocoloured) Portuguese subnational flags are not allowed to have variations without arms: plain flags always carry the coat of arms.
Jorge Candeias, 18 July 1999
Matosinhos municipality had 167 026 inhabitants in 2001 and consists of 10 communes covering 62,30 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 Grande Porto.
António Martins-Tuválkin,
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