image by
Dirk Schönberger, 4 October 2010Source: http://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viçosa_(Minas_Gerais)
Last modified: 2011-02-05 by ian macdonald
Keywords: minas gerais | viçosa |
Links: FOTW homepage |
search |
disclaimer and copyright |
write us |
mirrors
image by
Dirk Schönberger, 4 October 2010
Source:
http://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viçosa_(Minas_Gerais)
A white over green bicolor, a small red triangle centred, arched above it a blue band, bearing CULTURA E CIVISMO and two stars in white, and below it a large yellow V extending to the outer edge of the blue arch.
Official website at
http://www.vicosa.mg.gov.br/
Dirk Schönberger, 4 October 2010
The municipality of Viçosa (64,854 inhabitants in 2000; 300.15 sq. km) is
located in southeastern Minas Gerais, 225 km of Belo Horizonte. The town was
first incorporated in 1871, when the parish of Santa Rita do Turvo was granted
the status of "vila"; erected the "cidade" of Viçosa de Santa Rita in 1884, as a
tribute to Antônio Ferreira Viçoso,
Bishop of Mariana, the municipality was
renamed Viçosa in 1911.
Artur da Silva Bernardes
(1876-1955), born in Viçosa, was elected Mayor of Viçosa in 1906, Federal
Representative in 1909-1910 and 1915-1917, and President of Minas Gerais in
1918-1922. Bernardes was President of Brazil in 1922-1926, suppressing
insurrections in Rio Grande do Sul and São Paulo. Under his presidency,
Brazil left the League of Nations in 1926 and the Constitution was amended the
same year. Elected Senator in 1927, Bernardes took part to the 1930
Revolution and exiled to Portugal; back to Brazil in 1934, he was elected
Representative in 1934, expelled by the 1937 coup, and elected again
Representative from 1954 to his death.
Bernardes created on 30 March 1922
(State Decree No. 6,053) the Agricultural and Veterinary Higher School ("Escola
Superior de Agricultura e Veterinaria", ESAV) and inaugurated it on 28 August
1926. Renamed in 1948 the Minas Gerais State Rural University ("Universidade
Rural do Estado de Minas Gerais", UREMG), the university was made a federal
university on 15 June 1969 as the Viçosa Federal University ("Universidade
Federal de Viçosa, UFV).
The municipal website has a page dedicated
to the symbols:
http://www.vicosa.mg.gov.br/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=54&Itemid=64.
The flag is horizontally divided white-green with a red
triangle in the middle, in the white stripe a blue, semi-circular stripe
charged with the white writing "CULTURA E CIVISMO" flanked by two white
stars, in the green stripe a yellow V-shaped stripe. The municipal
flag was designed by Pr. Arlindo de Paula Gonçalves, in harmony with the
symbol represented on the monument commemorating the centenary of the town.
As said in the explaining text appended to the flag bill, "the green, yellow
and blue colors are those of the national flag, while the white and red
colors are those of the Minas Gerais flag." The yellow "V" stands for "Viçosa".
The two stars represent the two districts of Viçosa, Silvestre and Cachoeira de Santa Cruz (while the town has now four districts, adding Viçosa proper
and São José do Triunfo).
Ivan Sache, 6 October 2010
