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![[Chamusca municipal flag]](../images/p/pt-chm.gif)
2:3, image by António Martins-Tuválkin and Sérgio Horta, 3 May 2025
It is a typical Portuguese municipal flag with the coat of arms centred on a field quartered of yellow and purple.
Source: Sérgio Horta´s webpage
António Martins-Tuválkin, 18 Nov 2001
![[Chamusca municipal plain flag]](../images/p/pt-chm0.gif)
2:3 image by António Martins-Tuválkin, 1 Apr 2010
![[Chamusca municipal CoA]](../images/p/pt-chm).gif)
image by António Martins-Tuválkin and Sérgio Horta, 2 May 2025
Shield Argent, a lion Purple, armed Azure, bordure Sable charged with four vine grapes Or, alterning with four pomegranates Or fructed Gules.
Mural crown argent with four visible towers (town rank) and white scroll reading in black upper case letters "VILA DA CHAMUSCA" (sometimes also "CÂMARA MUNICIPAL DA CHAMUSCA").
Meaning:
The presence of the lion is traced back to the Silva kin family arms.
An even more extreme case of these arms can be seen here,
where the quartered background has an almost red shade of magenta while the lion is fully in regular red.
Source: municipal heraldry page
António Martins-Tuválkin, 18 Nov 2001
Published in Diário do Govêrno: I Série on 10 May 1934, see here
António Martins-Tuválkin, 3 May 2025
Chamusca Municipality had 8350 inhabitants in 2021, and it is divided in five communes, covering 746 km². It belongs to the Santarém District and to the old province of Ribatejo.
António Martins-Tuválkin, 18 Nov 2001
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