Penacova Municipality (Portugal)

Concelho de Penacova, Distrito de Coimbra

Last modified: 2014-11-01 by klaus-michael schneider
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• About the Flag
• Blue Flag (reported 1998)
• Version without Coat of Arms
• Presentation of Penacova

• Penacova Communes
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• Page about Penacova at the Portuguese Municipalities’s Association website (incl. image of the arms)
  reported by António Martins, 18 Nov 2001

About the Flag

It is a fairly typical Portuguese municipal flag, with the coat of arms centred on a field quartered of blue and white.
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 27 Oct 2014

According to Sérgio Horta the blazon is as follows:
Shield Azure, a castle Argent masoned Sable with port and windows Gules, on the lateral towers two ravens respectant Sable, the whole flanked at dexter and sinister by a 7-point star Or and an inverted crescent Argent (editorial note: inversion of both at sinister side is not mentioned), in bade two mountains Or, each charged with adisc Azure. Mural crown with four towers (town rank), with scroll with inscription "PENACOVA".
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 27 Oct 2014

Blue Flag (reported 1998)

The coat of arms is remarkably unusual: the shield is samnitic, so-called french style, and instead of a scroll its surrounded by a golden garland. The charges of the coat of arms are: Azure fimbriated Argent, a castle Argent with port and windows Gules, a raven Sable perched on both lateral towers, flanked dexter by a crescent inverted Argent over a sun Or, sinister by the inverse composition, in base a double mount Argent charged with two discs Sable.
António Martins-Tuválkin, 27 Oct 1998

Flag and arms adopted and published in Diário da República: III Série on 12 April 1986
António Martins-Tuválkin, 27 Oct 1998

Version without Coat of Arms

Presentation of Penacova

A rural municipality, with 16 610 inhabitants in eight communes covering 620 km². Currently in the Coimbra District, traditionally in Beira Litoral province.
António Martins-Tuválkin, 27 Oct 1998

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