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Nisa Municipality (Portugal)

Concelho de Nisa, Distrito de Portalegre

2:3 image by António Martins-Tuválkin, 31 July 1999
2:3 image by Klaus-Michael Schneider, 7 Aug 2014

About the Flag
Presentation of Nisa

See also:

External links:

Page about Nisa 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 yellow field.
António Martins-Tuválkin, 31 July 1999

Coat of arms

The coat of arms is gules, a castle or masoned sable, door and windows void, under a roman cross patty argent voided gules, this flanked by two 6-point stars under which, sinister, an ineschuteon charged with Portugal ancient, dexter a crescent argent. Mural crown argent with four visible towers (town rank) and white scroll reading in black upper case letters "NOTÁVEL VILA DE NISA". (see left image above)
Meaning:
The unusual epithet "notável" ("noteworthy") was attributed for successful borderline defence, if I recall correctly.
António Martins-Tuválkin, 31 July 1999

The cross is that of the Knights of São Bento, the oldest military order, created in the beginning of the 13th century by Afonso II. (From: Les Guides Bleus — Portugal, Madàre, Açores, 1978) Jarig Bakker, 1 Aug 1999

Variant with new coat of arms

image by Sérgio Horta, 31 July 1999

Differences:
Shield: field Purpure, Christ Knights' cross Gules voided Argent. (see right image above)
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 7 Aug 2014

Flag ans arms were approved on 4 March 1988.
António Martins-Tuválkin, 31 July 1999

Presentation of Nisa

Nisa municipality had 9460 inhabitants in 1990, and it is divided in seven communes, covering 574 km². It belongs to the Portalegre District and to the old province of Alto Alentejo.
António Martins-Tuválkin, 31 July 1999

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