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Lagoa (Algarve) Municipality (Portugal)

Concelho de Lagoa, Distrito de Faro

Last modified: 2015-05-09 by klaus-michael schneider
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• About the flag
• Presentation of Lagoa (Algarve)
• Previous flags
• Other flags
  • Grupo Desportivo de Lagoa

• Lagoa Communes
• Portugal

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

About the flag

It is a slightly atypical portuguese municipal flag, with the coat of arms centered on a background gyronny (meaning city rank) of yellow and black. The coat of arms is azure a almond tree in bloom trunked or and flowered argent flanked in chief with a christan king’s head dexter and a moor king’s head sinister (which is Algarve’s heraldic griffe). Mural crown argent with five visible towers (city rank)
António Martins-Tuválkin, 06 Sep 2003

After becoming a city, the scroll text is no longer set in two lines, being just the city name. (Thus confusing it with the identically named town in Azores…)
António Martins-Tuválkin, 07 Nov 2004

Presentation of Lagoa (Algarve)

Lagoa municipality had 20 453 inhabitants in 2000 (17 140 in 1990), and it is divided in 5 communes, covering 89 km². It belongs to the Faro District and to the old province of Algarve.
António Martins-Tuválkin, 06 Sep 2003

Previous flags

193X-2002

Lagoa became a city lin 2002, and its symbols were upgraded accordingly: the arems now has a 5-towered mural crown and the flag background is now a gyronny of yellow and black. Changes are to be expected in the scroll as well; everything else remains the same.
Jorge Candeias, 09 Sep 2003

It had a white scroll reading in black upper case letters "VILA DE LAGOA" and in smaller type in a second line bellow (and this is the atypical part) "ALGARVE" — this is done to tell apart this municipality and town from another Lagoa municipality, in São Miguel island, Azores.
António Martins-Tuválkin, 06 Sep 2003

Other flags

Grupo Desportivo de Lagoa sport club

Apart from the text on the scroll, the main difference is the background division: gyronny in the municipal flag, per saltire in the club flag.
António Martins-Tuválkin, 07 Nov 2004

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