Fundão Municipality (Portugal)

Last modified: 2024-08-17 by klaus-michael schneider
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• Fundão Municipality
• Flag
• Coat of Arms
• Flag with false Order of Gyrons
• Monocoloured City Flag (1988 - 2007)
• Monocoloured Town Flag (1937 - 1988)
• Proposed Town Flag
• Proposed Coat of Arms
• Plain Flag
• Presentation of Fundão Municipality

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Flag

It is a typical Portuguese municipal flag, with the coat of arms centred on a field gyronny of eight of white and green.
Source: Sérgio Horta´s webpage
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 12 Aug 2024

Coat of Arms

Shield Argent, within a representation of a gorge valley of Vert and Sable, charged with a fess wavy Azure fimbriated Argent, a chestnut tree Vert fruited Or trunked and eradicated Sable between two triplets of pears, each Vert leafed and trunked of the same. Mural crown Argent with five visible towers (city rank) and white scroll reading in black upper case letters "FUNDÃO".
Editorial note: on the unofficial 2007 version of the flag (see below) the background colour of the shield is realised as light grey.
Meaning:
"Fundão" means something like "big deep", which is shown in the arms.
Source: Hiperglobal webpage
António Martins-Tuválkin, 28 Mar 2007

Flag with false Order of Gyrons

It is a typical Portuguese municipal flag, with the coat of arms centred on a field gyronny of eight of green and white.
Source: Sérgio Horta´s webpage
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 12 Aug 2024

Monocoloured City Flag (1988 - 2007)

It was a fairly typical Portuguese municipal flag, with the coat of arms centred on a plain green background. This flag (still unofficial) had trivial changes upon upgrading to city status on 14 April 1988 from the original flag, with five visible towers and white scroll reading in black upper case letters "CIDADE DE FUNDÃO".
António Martins-Tuválkin, 28 Mar 2007 / 29 Mar 2007

Monocoloured Town Flag (1937 - 1988)

It was a typical Portuguese municipal flag, with the coat of arms centred on a plain green field but having only four visible towers on the mural crown.
Source: based Sérgio Horta´s image before updating the page
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 12 Aug 2024

Proposed Town Flag

It is a typical Portuguese municipal flag, with the coat of arms centred on a plain green field.
Source: Sérgio Horta´s webpage
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 12 Aug 2024

Proposed Coat of Arms

Shield Argent a chestnut tree Vert fruited Or, stemmed and eradicated Sable, on central chief point a 5-point star Gules, issuant from base a gorge valley of Vert and Sable. Mural crown Argent with four visible towers (town rank) and white scroll with inscription in black initials "VILA DE FUNDÃO".
Source: Sérgio Horta´s webpage
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 12 Aug 2024

Fundão was upgraded to a city on 14 April 1988. The town symbols had been published in Diário do Governo I Série on 8 May 1937. The slightly modified first city flag was in use without approval from 1988 until 2007. The current symbols were published in Diário da República: II Série on 1 January 2008.
António Martins-Tuválkin, 28 Mar 2007 and Klaus-Michael Schneider, 13 Aug 2024

Plain Flag

It is a meanwhile firly untypical Portuguese municipal flag being gyronny of eight of white and green, nowadays hardly in use.
Plain (monocoloured) Portuguese subnational flags are not allowed to have variations without arms: plain flags always carry the coat of arms.
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 12 Aug 2024 and Jorge Candeias, 18 July 1999

Presentation of Fundão Municipality

Fundão municipality had 31 482 inhabitants in 2001 and then consisted of 31 communes covering 701,65 km². It is part of Castelo Branco District, traditional province Beira Baixa, 1999 ref. adm. region Beira Interior, C.C.R. / NUTS II Centro, and NUTS III Cova da Beira.
António Martins-Tuválkin, 28 Mar 2007

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