Fafe Municipality (Portugal)

Concelho de Fafe, Distrito de Braga

Last modified: 2014-08-30 by klaus-michael schneider
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• About the flag
• Version without Coat of Arms
• Variation with white background
• Previous flag
• Presentation of Fafe

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• Page about the municipal flag and coat of arms of Fafe at Sérgio Horta’s website (in Portuguese).
  reported by Jorge Candeias, 29 Feb 1999
• Municipal website, showing animated flag with incorrect background (see bellow).
  reported by Dov Gutterman and Pascal Gross, 13 Jul 1999
• Page about Fafe at the Portuguese Municipalities’s Association website (incl. image of the arms)
  reported by António Martins-Tuválkin, 18 Nov 2001

About the flag

It is a fairily typical portuguese municipal flag, with the coat of arms centered on a red and white gyronny (city rank) background. Flag and arms adopted and published in the official journal Diário da República : III Série in 1987.01.23. These arms and flag were adopted upon the upgrade of the municipality seat to city status in 1984.06.28 and are a trivial change of the former arms and flag.
António Martins-Tuválkin, 20 Apr 2007

Coat of arms

The arms are Argent issuant from a base barry wavy Azure and Argent a rivermill wheel Gules and in chief a sun Or with 16 rays on a roundel Azure and flanked by a bundle of three maize ears Or leaved Vert pointing down in dexter and a bunch of grapes Purple leaved Vert in sinister. Mural crown argent with five visible towers (city rank) and white scroll reading in black upper case letters "Cidade de Fafe".
António Martins-Tuválkin, 20 Apr 2007

Version without the coat of arms

Variation with white background

The municipal website of Fafe shows the coat of arms on a white background and calls it "bandeira.jpg" (meaning flag), but the real flag of Fafe municipality has a white over red gyronny background. I’m quite surprised to see this error in the municipal website…
António Martins-Tuválkin, 14 Jul 1999, and Jorge Candeias, 15 Jul 1999

Previous flag

The former arms and flag adopted and published in the official journal Diário do Governo : I Série in 1940.06.14, a remakably late date. These included the usual town attributes, four visible crown towers, "vila" instead of "cidade" ond the scroll, and plain red flag.
António Martins-Tuválkin, 20 Apr 2007

Fafe municipality had 52 757 inhabitants in 2001 and consists of 25 communes covering 218,87 km². It is part of Braga District, traditional province Minho, 1999 ref. adm. region Entre Douro e Minho, current C.C.R. / NUTS II Norte, and NUTS III Ave.
António Martins-Tuválkin, 20 Apr 2007

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