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image by António Martins, 26 Dec 2025
See also:
"Paul", in Portuguese, "peul" in Capeverdean Criole; it
means "marsh".
António Martins, 21 May 2017
Town of Pombas was/is the seat of the Municipality of Paul
(Concelho do Paul).
Valentin Poposki, 04 Aug 2022
It is a white flag with the municipal emblem centered on it.
António Martins, 14 Nov 2017
Some photos online show this flag in official use: Lady Mayor, 2012
(two
photos),
2017
Rum Brotherhood event, and
2017
town hall meeting.
António Martins, 21 May 2017
These photos show clearly that the device on the flyside of the emblem,
set against the red triangular mountain and looking like a pickaxe on a
box, is yellow, not brown.
Fortuitously, these photos happen not to show the apex of the emblem, with the
usual chain: While normally the chain links are
green, a
2018 photo of this flag being used as
a cloak in a plaque unveiling cerimony shows clearly blue chain links.
António Martins, 26 Dec 2025
One more for this overview of muncipal v.s
national flags hoisted at town/city halls is shown on this
2012
photo of the town hall, with its two flag poles mounted on either side of
its dormer window and not on the balcony: It shows the national flag on the
(building’s) right side pole and the municipal flag on the left, as is
costumary protocol here and elsewhere, and interestingly the latter flag is
visibly smaller. That’s something very likely due to practical circumstances
but fully within the spirit of said protocol, which gives honorific precedence
to the national flag, even if that size difference is almost certainly not
prescribed and arguably not ideal. (The opposite case, to have a larger
municipal flag, even if due again to practical circumstances, would be however
unacceptable, I think.)
António Martins, 26 Dec 2025
![[flag]](../images/c/cv-12a.gif)
image by António Martins, 21 May 2017
The seemingly unofficial variant with green chain links and brown box-mounted
pickaxe: the device on the flyside of the emblem, set against the red triangular
mountain and looking like a pickaxe on a box, in brown (not yellow)
in this
standalone emblem image.
António Martins, 26 Dec 2025
image by Sérgio Horta and António Martins, 26 Dec 2025 |
(source)
Symbols were published in the Government Gazette on 07.01.1955.
Flag is quartered in white and green. Cords and tassels of silver and green.
Golden spear and shaft.
Valentin Poposki, 04 Aug 2022
The colonial-era municipal flag is a typical Portuguese
municipal flag, consisting of a 2:3 white over green quartered background with
the coat of arms centered on it. Mural crown Argent with
four visible towers (town rank) and white scroll
reading in black upper case serifed letters "Vila das Pombas".
The banner should have silvery and green tassels and cord, and golden staff with
a spear finial. Flag and arms approved by the Overseas Ministry in Ministerial
Decree (Portaria) n.º
15442 and published in the official journal Diário do Governo : I Série
144 of 1955.07.01.
António Martins, 26 Dec 2025
At HeraldicaCivica.PT
we can see Sérgio Horta’s account of these arms and flag, drawn in
the same style as contemporary CHAAP artwork;
other sources, such as [lgh66] and
postage stamps,
may differ in details.
António Martins, 26 Dec 2025
The differing details are the usual ones:
Sérgio used
the current standard style for scrolls and coronets, which I applaud and follow
— as their precursors were unevenly applied, poorly rendered most often,
and even so meant to be semantically uniform.
António Martins, 27 Dec 2025
![[flag]](../images/p/pt-'wv4.gif)
image by António Martins, 29 Feb 2010
Non-monocolored portuguese subnational flags are
allowed to have armless variations.
Jorge Candeias, 18 Jul 1999
While the current law, adopted in 1991,
doesn’t apply to municipal flags in the colonies, independent in 1975, it
however draws most of its content from the 1930 ministerial dispatch, incl.
the regulation of armless variations allowed for non-monocolor municipal flags.
This 1930 ruling affected all future Portuguese municipal flags, including the
colonial ones.
António Martins, Feb 2026
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image by Sérgio Horta and António Martins, 26 Dec 2025 |
(source)
In a field of green, three silver doves.
Valentin Poposki, 04 Aug 2022
The arms have on a shield Vert three doves Argent.
Em campo de verde, três pombas de prata. Coroa mural de quatro torres de prata. Listel branco, com os dizeres "VILA DAS POMBAS". Bandeira - Esquartelada de branco e verde. Cordões e borlas de prata e verde. Lança e haste douradas.António Martins, 26 Dec 2025
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