Bestellen Sie Ihre Fahnen / Flaggen im Flaggen-Shop bei fahnenversand.de

Diese Website beschäftigt sich mit der Wissenschaft der Vexillologie (Flaggenkunde).
Alle auf dieser Website dargebotenen Abbildungen dienen ausschließlich der Informationsvermittlung im Sinne der Flaggenkunde.
Der Hoster dieser Seite distanziert sich ausdrücklich von jedweden hierauf u.U. dargestellten Symbolen verfassungsfeindlicher Organisationen.

^{This is a mirror of a page that is part of © FOTW Flags Of The World website.
Anything above the previous line isnt part of the Flags of the World Website and was added by the hoster of this mirror.}

Cascais Municipality (Portugal)

Concelho de Cascais, Distrito de Lisboa

2:3 image by António Martins-Tuválkin, 12 Sep 2003

About the flag
Version without Coat of Arms
Variant without scroll
Presentation of Cascais

See also:

External links:

Page about Cascais at the Portuguese Municipalities’s Association website (incl. image of the arms)
reported by António Martins, 18 Nov 2001

About the Flag

It is a fairly typical Portuguese municipal flag, with the coat of arms centred on a plain red field.
António Martins-Tuválkin, 12 Sep 2003

Coat of arms

image by Sérgio Horta, 12 Sep 2003

Shield Argent a castle Gules upon basement Sable stoned argent, in base a fess wavy Argent charged with two barrulets wavy Vert covered by a fishing net Or. Mural crown Argent with four visible towers (town rank) and white scroll reading "VILA DE CASCAIS" in black upper case letters.
Meaning:
Though there is no widely known castle in the municipality, it must stand for something in the coat of arms — perhaps for the casino and all the more than one century old turf centre, which Cascais is (the municipality includes well known Estoril). The fishing net stands for the local fishing traditions.
António Martins-Tuválkin, 12 Sep 2003

Flag and arms adopted and published in Diário do Governo : I Série on 15 June 1934
António Martins-Tuválkin, 12 Sep 2003

Version without Coat of Arms

Plain (monocoloured) Portuguese subnational flags are not allowed to have variations without arms: plain flags always carry the coat of arms.
Jorge Candeias, 18 July 1999

Variant without scroll

2:3 image by António Martins-Tuválkin, 12 Sep 2003

Like Sintra, though less often, there is a widely used variant of the coat of arms without the scroll.
António Martins-Tuválkin, 12 Sep 2003

Presentation of Cascais

Just like neighbouring Sintra, the municipal seat Cascais is proud of its town rank and had not applied to its upgrade, though it would be easily granted (enough population and strong economy). Cascais municipality had 168 827 inhabitants in 2000 (156 820 in 1990), and it is divided in 6 communes, covering 97 km². It belongs to the Lisboa District and to the old province of Estremadura.
António Martins-Tuválkin, 12 Sep 2003

back to Municipalities of Portugal click here

^{Anything below the following line isnt part of the Flags of the World Website and was added by the hoster of this mirror.}

Bei fahnenversand.de erhalten Sie eine Vielzahl an günstigen Flaggen, Pins und Aufnähern, zum Beispiel: