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It is a fairly typical portuguese municipal flag,
with the coat of arms centered on a purple
and yellow gyronny (city rank) background.
Flag and arms adopted and published in the official journal
Diário da República :
III Série in 1991.02.02, upon upgrade to city status in
1990.09.09, with slightly less than trivial changes in the
previous, town rank, flag and arms.
António Martins, 31 Mar 2007
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The arms are Argent between two bunches of grapes Purple leaved Vert a bend
wavy Azure and on a burdure Sable twelve bees Or. Mural crown argent with five
visible towers (city rank) and white scroll
reading in black upper case letters "Felgueiras".
António Martins, 31 Mar 2007
The fess stands for local rivers Sousa and Vizela, the grapes for the local
wine (municipality within the Vinho Verde produce region) and the bees
for industry and labour.
António Martins, 31 Mar 2007
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
Municipal website showing
yellow and black flag.
Dov Gutterman, 13 Jul 1999
At the Municipal website,
probably also a wrong image. Our sources show a yellow and purple gyronny.
I could believe that one of us made an error is it wasn’t the fact that the
law on civic heraldry stipulates that the flag
must be made with the colours
present in the charges in the arms. And there’s nothing black in this
coat of arms, except the border. And a border ain’t a charge.
Jorge Candeias, 15 Jul 1999
I’d say it’s simply an ill scanned image: the dark background pixels,
though almost black, have a slight purplish tinge, which becomes evident
when you set your monitor to maximum luminousity (high color bleed).
António Martins, 06 Sep 2001
Later on the official website was changed and the new version shows on its
heraldry
page a purple and yellow flag still wrong, but closer to the legal design
— shade of purple light and bright, shade of yellow a tad orangeish.
António Martins, 20 Sep 2010
The original website
archived
here (a flash animation with sound effects!). The (light) purple and yellow
bars at the bottom show that black was never intended to show on the flag along
with yellow as the municipal colors. Nonetheless this darkly scanned image was
kept online for a long time and surely many people mistook the flag to be black
and yellow.
António Martins, 20 Sep 2010
The previous, town rank, flag and arms, were adopted and published in the
official journal Diário do Governo
: I Série in 1937.05.06. It had four towers in the crown and a
quartered background (town rank) and the bordure
was different (though identically blazoned): The bees are all upright and
placed three on the chief and one in point, while the current flag has them
parallel to the edges of the bordure and four on the chief.
António Martins, 31 Mar 2007
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
Felgueiras municipality had 57 595 inhabitants in 2001 and consists of
32 communes covering 115,62 km². It is part of
Porto District, traditional province
Douro Litoral, 1999 ref. adm. region
Entre Douro e Minho, C.C.R. / NUTS II Norte, and NUTS
III Tâmega.
António Martins, 31 Mar 2007
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