Matosinhos Municipality (Portugal)

Last modified: 2010-09-24 by antónio martins
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• About the flag
• Version without the coat of arms
• Previous flag
• Presentation of Matosinhos MTS

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• Page about the municipal flag and coat of arms of Matosinhos at Sérgio Horta’s website (in Portuguese).
  reported by Jorge Candeias, 29 Feb 1999
• Page about Matosinhos at the Portuguese Municipalities’s Association website (incl. image of the arms)
  reported by António Martins, 18 Nov 2001
• Matosinhos at the English Wikipedia
  reported by António Martins, 05 Apr 2007

About the flag

It is a fairily typical portuguese municipal flag, with the coat of arms centered on a green and white gyronny (city rank) background. Flag and arms adopted and published in the official journal Diário da República : III Série in 1986.03.22. These arms and flag were adopted upon the upgrade of the municipality seat to city status in 1984.06.28 and are a trivial change of the former arms and flag.
António Martins, 05 Apr 2007

The arms are Argent seven barrulets wavy Vert and over all three dolphins Sable emphasized Or urinant. Mural crown argent with five visible towers (city rank) and white scroll reading in black upper case letters "Cidade de Matosinhos".
António Martins, 05 Apr 2007

Version without the coat of arms

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

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, 05 Apr 2007

Version without the coat of arms

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 Matosinhos

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, 05 Apr 2007

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