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2:3 image by Sérgio Horta, 19 Feb 2015
It is a typical Portuguese communal flag, with the coat of arms centred on a plain field quartered of yellow and blue.
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 19 Feb 2015
Shield Or, in base a gatehouse issuant Azure masoned Sable and crowned by an embattled turret of the same flnked by three inescutcheons topped by coronets and ordered 1:2. Mural crown Argent with four visible towers (town rank) and white scroll readinfg in black initials:
"MONSARAZ".
Meaning:
The inescutcheons are displaying the 2nd arms of the House of Bragança.
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 19 Feb 2015
Published in Diário da República: III Série on 28 August 1998
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 19 Feb 2015
Monsaraz Commune is one of the four communes of Reguengos de Monsaraz Municipality (q.v.); it had 781 inhabitants in 2011 and covers 88.24 km².
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 19 Feb 2015
back to Reguengos de Monsaraz Communes click here
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