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image by
Dirk Schönberger,
28 January 2013
Based on:
http://www.camarasg.sp.gov.br/Municipio/Pagina.aspx?tipo=simbolos
A white flag with a small red triangle at the upper hoist and a small black triangle at the lower fly, thereby giving the impression of a very broad white bend sinister, with the municipal arms in the centre.
Official website at
http://www.santagertrudes.sp.gov.br
Dirk Schönberger,
28 January 2013
Santa Gertrudes was founded by Brigadier Manoel Rodrigues Jordão and his wife Gertrudes Galvão de Moura Lacerda on a piece of land of the Morro Azul domain acquired on 18 June 1821. The settlement was originally known as Gramado. In 1845, the Baron of São João do Rio Claro founded the Santa Gertrudes Estate, named for his mother; originally dedicated to sugarcane cultivation, the estate would become in the 1890s one of the main coffee estates in the region; at the time, the Santa Gertrudes railway station and the nearby town of the same name were founded. The municipality of Santa Gertrudes was established by Law No. 233 of 24 December 1948, seceding from Rio Claro.
The symbols of Santa Gertrudes are prescribed in Article 3 of the Municipal Constitution, adopted on 5 April 1990 and last amended in December 2009, as "the coat of arms, the flag and the anthem established by Law."
The flag of Santa Gertrudes is white with the municipal coat of arms in the middle, a small red triangle in upper hoist and a small black triangle in lower fly.
The coat of arms of Santa Gertrudes, designed by Lourenço Franco, Nelson Queiroz and José Ricardo Franzini, and painted by Maria Luiza Schmidt Redher, is "Gules a roof with two chimneys all or smoking argent a canton or a Latin cross azure. The shield surmounted by a mural brick crown proper the port or a Latin cross azure. The shield surrounded dexter by a branch of coffee fructed and sinister by a sugar cane the two proper. Beneath the shield a scroll gules inscribed with the motto 'PELA FÉ, HONRA E TRABALHO' in letters argent."
The Portuguese shield, used by all the Brazilian municipalities,
recalls our Portuguese origin.
Gules is a symbol of valiance, courage, victory, faith and tenacity.
Or is a symbol of wealth. The Latin cross represents the Christian
spirit of the people. Azure is a symbol of calm, highness and honour.
The roof is a symbol of the love of the people for their houses. The
smoking chimneys mean that the town never rests and always works.
The mural crown represent strength. The three open gates [only one
shown on the image] welcome other people.
The branch of coffee and the sugar cane represent crops common in
Brazil.
The scroll argent [gules on the image] represents peace; the motto in
letters azure [argent on the image] means "For Faith, Honour and Work".
http://www.camarasg.sp.gov.br/Municipio/Pagina.aspx?tipo=simbolos -
Website of the Municipal Chamber
The coat of arms shown on the first page of the Municipal Constitution
has the mural crown with three gates and without the cross.
Ivan Sache, 30 January 2013