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image by António Martins, 19 Apr 2016
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The municipal flag is plain red with its emblem centered on it. The
emblem is red and white with black lining (rendered as yellow stitching
on the flag?), quasi-heraldic in nature: The shield has a Samnite point,
pointy chief corners, and a domed top, and it is divided per pale, the
sinister including a sun sector above the outline of a mountain with a
plume of smoke, surely standing for the island’s huge volcano. (I cannot
interpret any other details.) Below the shield, a white scroll reading
"Município de São Filipe" in black capitals.
António Martins, 19 April 2016
The exact depiction of the emblem on the flag seems to vary or even
differ from the official logo
image online, as suggested by
this
photo of the 2013 Flag Day parade, where the scroll
end is parallel to the bottom edge of the flag. See more images of both
depictions in this
slideshow hosted in the official website. Sadly the
heraldry page of the
official website is so far empty.
António Martins, 19 April 2016
March 29th is municipal day and also
municipal flag day (Dia do Município
e da Bandeira de São Filipe), and it has been celebrated since
at least 2013. (Sources:
2016,
2016,
2013.)
António Martins, 19 April 2016
São Filipe is a municipality of Cabo Verde that takes up the
western half of Fogo isl.; more than half the
island’s population lives here, mostly in the namesake seat town.
António Martins, 19 April 2016
