Cabeceiras de Basto Municipality (Portugal)

Last modified: 2010-07-10 by antónio martins
Keywords: cabeceiras de basto | coat of arms: bordure | bugles: 2 | grape bunches: 8 | wave (silver) |
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• About the flag
• Version without the coat of arms
• Presentation of Cabeceiras de Basto

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• Page about the municipal flag and coat of arms of Cabeceiras de Basto at Sérgio Horta’s website (in Portuguese).
  reported by Jorge Candeias, 29 Feb 1999
• Page about Cabeceiras de Basto at the Portuguese Municipalities’s Association website (incl. image of the arms)
  reported by António Martins, 18 Nov 2001
• Cabeceiras de Basto at the English Wikipedia
  reported by António Martins, 11 Jul 2007

About the flag

It is a fairily typical portuguese municipal flag, with the coat of arms centered on background quarterly (town rank), white and purple. Flag and arms adopted and published in the official journal Diário da República : III Série in 1987.03.19, a remarkably late date.
António Martins, 11 Jul 2007

The arms are Azure bewteen two hunting horns Argent a fess wavy of the Same and on a bordure Or eight bunches of grapes Purpure leaved Vert. Mural crown argent with four visible towers (town rank) and white scroll reading in black upper case letters "Cabeceiras de Basto".
António Martins, 11 Jul 2007

"Cabeceiras de Basto" (or, with definite article, "cabeceiras do Basto") means "fountains of the Basto" (a local river), which makes the fess canting. No idea about the horns, and grapes are probably trivial references to local vineyards.
António Martins, 11 Jul 2007

Version without the coat of arms

Plain (monocolored) portuguese subnational flags are not allowed to have armless variations: plain flags always carry the coat of arms.
Jorge Candeias, 18 Jul 1999

Presentation of Cabeceiras de Basto

Cabeceiras de Basto municipality had 17 846 inhabitants in 2001 and consists of 17 communes covering 240,88 km². It is part of Braga District, traditional province Minho, 1999 ref. adm. region Entre Douro e Minho, C.C.R. / NUTS II Norte, and NUTS III Ave.
António Martins, 11 Jul 2007

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