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Grândola Municipality (Portugal)

Concelho de Grândola, Distrito de Setúbal

2:3, image by André Serranho, 31 July 1999

Grândola Municipality

Flag
Coat of Arms
Presentation of Grândola

See also:

External links:

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

It is a quite typical portuguese municipal flag, with the coat of arms centred on a background divided quarterly of yellow and black.
Source: Sérgio Horta´s webpage
António Martins-Tuválkin, 31 July 1999

Coat of Arms

image by António Martins-Tuválkin and Sérgio Horta, 12 June 2024

Shield Argent, a boar Sable passant under a large sword-cross of Santiago Gules, itself charged with a pelican Or in his piety, and flanked by two towers Sable with port and windows void, flanked at dexter and sinister two trees Vert fruited Or, trunked and eradicated Sable, on base a fess wavy Azure. Mural crown Argent with four visible towers (town rank) and white scroll reading in black upper case letters "VILA DE GRÂNDOLA".
Meaning:
I have no special information about the coat of arms, except that the Santiago Cross (here depicted in red instead of purple, as usual in other coats of arms, and charged with the pelican, yet another oddity) relates to the warrior monk order of the same name. The wavy fess stands for the Sado River.
Source: Hiperglobal webpage
António Martins-Tuválkin, 31 July 1999

Published in Diário del Governo: I Série on 18 August 1936, see here
António Martins-Tuválkin, 25 Apr 2024

Presentation of Grândola

Grândola municipality had 13 822 inhabitants in 2021, and it is divided in 5 communes, covering 807 km². It belongs to the Setúbal District and to the old province of Alentejo. The famous ballad Grândola, vila morena, used to signal the beginning of the 25 April 1974 revolution, was indeed an homage to this town.
António Martins, 31 July 1999 / 6 Aug 2001

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