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![[Santarém municipal flag]](../images/p/pt-str.gif) 2:3, image by António Martins-Tuválkin and Sérgio Horta, 17 Sep 2025 |
![[Santarém municipal flag w/ golden crown]](../images/p/pt-stry.gif) 2:3, image by António Martins-Tuválkin and Sérgio Horta, 17 Sep 2025 |
It is a typical Portuguese municipal flag with the coat of arms centred on a field gyronny of eight of white and red.
It was also issued with a golden mural crown (see right image above).
Source: Sérgio Horta´s webpage
António Martins-Tuválkin, 3 Aug 1999
![[Santarém municipality plain]](../images/p/pt-str0.gif)
2:3, image by António Martins-Tuválkin, 1 Apr 2010
![[Santarém municipality CoA]](../images/p/pt-str).gif)
image by Klaus-Michael Schneider, 25 Aug 2014
The coat of arms is azure, a castle argent masoned sable with windows and doors gules, charged with Portugal ancien, by a fess wavy argent. Collar of the order of the Tower and Sword. Mural crown Argent with five visible towers (city rank) and white scroll reading in black upper case letters "CIDADE DE SANTARÉM".
Meaning:
The fess on the coat of arms stands for the Tejo River, and the castle for the Santarém castle, naturally.
Source: Ralf Hartemink´s webpage
António Martins-Tuválkin, 3 Aug 1999
Published in Diário do Govêrno: I Série on 15 March 1935
Sérgio Horta, 3 Aug 1999
Santarém Municipality had 61 980 inhabitants in 1990, and it is divided in 18 communes (since 2013), covering 559 km². It belongs to the Santarém District and to the old province of Ribatejo.
António Martins-Tuválkin, 3 Aug 1999
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