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![[Portugal national flag]](../images/p/pt.gif)
2:3, image by Vítor Luís and António Martins-Tuválkin, 23 Sep 2004
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Avenida Palace hotel, in Lisbon, has a flag of its own: Dark blue with the golden hotel logo, which features two gryphons and the monogram "AMP".
António Martins-Tuválkin, 2 Mar 2005
(By the side of this flag an incorrect Portuguese national flag was flown every sunday from about 1995 upto late 2005.)
António Martins, 2 Mar 2005
Orbitur is a formerly state-owned camping park network company. It operates thirty something caping sites in Portugal, and its flag can be seen hoisted at their entrances, usually along with the national flag, the EU flag, the appropriate municipal flag and, sometimes, the approriate communal flag.
The Orbitur company flag is light blue with the logo centered on it (about 1/3rd of the width and 2/3rds of the height), surrounded by a narrow blue stripe. The logo shows a red triangle pointing upwards notched in a (dark) blue area with a triangular gap pointing downwards and almost meeting the red triangle’s top. All this in a white very stylized shield (a rectangle with its bottom corner slightly rounded) on its “chief” the lettering "ORBITUR" is set in heavy sans-serif blue capitals. The red triangle seems to symbolize a camping tent. The reverse of the hoisted flag, as usual for such flag, is unreadable ("ЯUTIƐЯO").
António Martins-Tuválkin, 18 Dec 2005
Casino Estoril (a casino located, obviously enough, in the town of Estoril, just outside Lisbon in the Cascais municipality. The flag is with the logo of the corporation in it; shown in a photo used in advertisement to the Corporate Golf Challenge published i.a. in Golfe Executivo (supplement of Público newspaper), which was sponsored by the casino.
Jorge Candeias, 22 May 2005
![[Grande Hotel do Porto flag]](../images/p/pt$ghp.gif)
2:3, image by António Martins-Tuválkin, 29 Nov 2023
Grande Hotel do Porto is a small historic hotel in Oporto, Portugal, see here. Back in 2016 I saw this flag at the main balcony: dark purple with its logo centred on. This version of the hotel logo, slightly shifted to top is a monochrome representation of the city arms (1837-1935), the initialism "GHP" is at bottom, all set in white.
In 2002-2007 this hotel might have been paradoxally using the post-1935
municipal coat of arms [pt-prt.html] as its logo, as archived here, not enough info for a reliable flag reconstruction, though.
The logo was later replaced, with matching flag change: Shortly after my visit, in September 2016 photo shows a blue and white flag (equal
vertical triband?) with a full colour logo. As late as March 2022 the blue and white triband was still in use. I could not find a clear depiction of this logo, so cannot offer a suitable flag image.
The most recent logo of this hotel shows again the 1837-1935 municipal coat of arms, now in a very stylised depiction. I have no idea, whether nor how is this new logo used on flags.
António Martins-Tuválkin, 29 Nov 2023
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