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29 May 2012
Source: https://www.campoalegre.sc.gov.br
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image by Dirk Schönberger,
29 May 2012
Source:
https://www.campoalegre.sc.gov.br
The municipality of Campo Alegre (11,982 inhabitants in 2014; 49,615 ha) is
located on the border with Paraná, 250 km north of Florianópolis.
Campo
Alegre emerged during the colonization of the territory offered by Emperor Peter
II to his daughter Francisca, as her dowry when she married the Prince of
Joinville. Upon request of Cia. Colonizadora, the imperial government allowed
the building of a road connecting Joinville to Curitiba via São Miguel and
Tijucas do Sul. This would be Brazil's second road, very important for the
development of commerce.
When reaching the top of the hills, the German
builders of the road said "Fröhliches Feld" (Happy Field - Portuguese, Campo
Alegre), referring to the beauty of the landscape, then mostly composed of
Brazilin pine forests.
Campo Alegre was elevated in 1888 to a district of São
Bento do Sul and on 18 March 1897 to a municipality.
https://www.campoalegre.sc.gov.br/
Municipal website
Ivan Sache, 2 November 2021
Horizontally divided 2:1 white over green, with a large blue star centred on the white stripe, and encircled by a green wreath tied with a red bow, and in the green field the words CAMPO ALEGRE in white in an arc.
Official website at
http://www.campoalegre.sc.gov.br
Dirk Schönberger, 29 May 2012
The flag of Campo Alegre is prescribed by Municipal Law No. 2,212
promulgated on 25 February 1997.
Article 1.
The flag of the
municipality of Campo Alegre shall be rectangular, in proportions 14 units in
width on 20 units in length. The flag's rectangular field is divided into two
horizontal stripes. The upper, wider, stripe is white, charged in the center
with a blue five-pointed star surrounded by two laurel wreaths proper arranged
in a circular pattern dexter and sinister and tied in base by a red scroll. The
lower, narrower stripe, is green. The green stripe covers 40% of the flag's
width and is inscribed with the name of the municipality of Campo Alegre, in
white letters placed between two vertical imaginary lines tangent to the wreath
in the white stripe. The letters shall be arranged in a semi-circular pattern.
https://leismunicipais.com.br/a/sc/c/campo-alegre/lei-ordinaria/1997/221/2212/lei-ordinaria-n-2212-1997-altera-redacao-da-lei-n-498
Leis Municipais database
This superseded Article 4 of Law No. 498
promulgated on 23 February 1979, which originally prescribed the municipal flag
and arms [not featured on the flag], adding the municipality's name to the
green stripe. The unmodified Articles are still valid.
Article 4.
The
flag of the municipality of Campo Alegre shall be rectangular, in proportions
14 units in width on 20 units in length. The flag's rectangular field is
divided into two horizontal stripes. The upper, wider, stripe is white, charged
in the center with a blue five-pointed star surrounded by two laurel wreaths
proper arranged in a circular pattern dexter and sinister and tied in base by a
red scroll. The lower, narrower stripe, is green.
§1. The proportions of
the flag of the municipality of Campo Alegre shall be identical to those of the
national flag.
§2. The color shades are snow white for the wider, upper
stripe, spring green for the narrower, lower stripe and the laurel wreaths,
cobalt blue for the five-pointed star, and bright red for the scroll's tie.
§3. The flag of the municipality of Campo Alegre, in compliance with the
rules of vexillology, shall be two-sided. The designs represented on the
obverse and reverse shall be identical.
§4. In compliance with
vexillological and heraldic good style, the flag of the municipality of Campo
Alegre shall be very simple so that everyone of school age can reproduce it.
Article 5.
The only two colors used on the flag of the municipality of
Campo Alegre are snow white and emerald green. White (substituted to argent on
flags) is an heraldic symbol of peace, friendship, loyalty, frankness,
integrity, truth..., which are the dominant virtues in everyone's heart in
Campo Alegre. Green is a symbol of hope, civilization, courtesy, field,
abundance, power. "Hope is green, alluding the greening fields in spring that
promise profuse harvests" (Crollalanza). The cobalt blue, five-pointed star
represents the municipality of Campo Alegre. The star is an heraldic symbol of
self-determination, "a safe guide, aspiration to higher things and sublime
actions" (Guelfi, 521). Azure was selected as the star's color since it is a
symbol of justice, perseverance, perfection, zeal, dignity, firmness,
incorruptibility... (Guelfi, 64; Asencio, 63; Ronchette, 126). Evergreen laurel
(Laurus nobilis) is the noblest plant used in heraldry and
vexillology, as symbol of triumph and glory. The scroll is red, as a symbol of
valor, rule, valiance, intrepidity, victory, honor, greatness, charity ...
(Guelfi, 459; Asencio, 62).
https://leismunicipais.com.br/a/sc/c/campo-alegre/lei-ordinaria/1979/49/498/lei-ordinaria-n-498-1979-dispoe-sobre-a-forma-e-a-apresentacao-dos-simbolos-do-municipio-de-campo-alegre
Leis Municipais database
The sources of the stereotypic meaning of
colors, repeated in the description of several Brazilian municipal symbols, are
rarely quoted.
Giovan Batista di Crollalanza (1819-1892) was an Italian
historian, genealogist and heraldist, founder and first president of the
Accademia Araldico-genealogica Italiana (1875). His masterwork, "Dizionario
storico-blasonico delle famiglie nobili e notabili italiane estinte e fiorenti"
(3 volumes, 1886-1890), served as the base of the establishment of the Heraldic
Council (Consulta Araldica) by the new Italian monarchy.
Count Guelfo Guelfi
Camajani (1837-1911) was another Italian historian, genealogist and heraldist,
founder of the "Istituto italiano genealogico" (1877). He published "Vocabolario
araldico ad uso degli Italiani" (1877) and "Dizionario araldico" (1921). His
son, Count Piero Guelfi Camajani, updated "Dizionario araldico" in 1940.
Asencio must refer to the Spanish herladist José de Asensio y Torres, author of
"Manual de heráldica y blasón" (1866)/
Ronchette must refer to Giuseppe
Ronchetti, author of "Dizionario Illustrato dei Simboli. Simboli, Emblemi,
Attributi, Allegorie, Immagini degli Dei, ecc., con 91 Tavole" (1922).
Photos
https://www.facebook.com/camaramunicipal.decampoalegre.1/photos/a.185546398250559/584486995023162/?type=3&theater
https://www.facebook.com/camaramunicipal.decampoalegre.1/photos/a.185546398250559/578914695580392/?type=3&theater
https://www.facebook.com/camaramunicipal.decampoalegre.1/photos/a.185546398250559/560296007442261/?type=3&theater
Ivan Sache, 2 November 2021
