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The flag is a red over yellow gyronny with
coat of arms in the center. The coat of arms has a 5-towered mural crown, a
silver shield charged in chef with a yellow hawk holding a quina in
it’s claws, three wavy stripes of green-silver-green below and in the center
a red castle with white door and windows, the collar of the
Order of Tower and Sword and a white scroll
reading "CIDADE DE ANGRA DO HEROÍSMO" in black letters.
Jorge Candeias, 31 May 1998
The meaning of the various charges of the coat of arms is probably: the
hawk and quina stand for the Azores (these
charges appear in nearly all the azorean municipal coats of arms), the
green waves stand for the sea, since this town is a sea harbor (like all the
other azorean heads of municipality), and the castle must represent the city’s
fortifications and history, since this city was the beginning of the liberal
revolution in the XIX century that after a civil war conquered the power from
the supporters of D. Miguel, an absolutist king, and that caused the adoption
of the blue-white flag in Portugal.
Jorge Candeias, 31 May 1998
Gyronny of red and yellow.
Jorge Candeias, 12 Jul 1999
Angra do Heroísmo (that could be translated as "bay of heroes"),
is an azorean city, capital of the island
Terceira. It used to be the head of the
district of Angra do Heroísmo, before
the Azores became an Autonomous Region and the azorean districts
where supressed. The municipality has 237,5 km² and over
35 500 inhabitants in 19 communes. It’s economy is varied,
with tourism, services, agriculture and food industries as the main
activities.
Jorge Candeias, 31 May 1998
It is a fairly typical portuguese communal flag,
with the coat of arms centered on a
plain blue background. The banner should have silvery
and blue tassels and cord, and golden pole with spear finial. Flag and arms
adopted and published in the official journal
Diário da República : III
Série in 1996.09.04.
António Martins, 24 Oct 2008
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The arms are Argent an orange tree
erradicated Vert fruited Proper and in chief a Christ Knights’ Order
cross Escudo de prata, uma laranjeira
arrancada de verde, frutada de sua cor; em chefe, cruz da Ordem de
Cristo, de vermelho aberta de prata, acompanhada à dextra de uma estrela
de oito raios e à sinistra de uma flor-de-lis, ambas de azul. Coroa mural
de prata de três torres. Listel branco com a legenda em maiúsculas de
negro: "TERRA CHÃ".
António Martins, 24 Oct 2008
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
Terra Chã Commune is one of the nineteen communes of Angra do
Heroísmo Municipality (q.v.); it had 2783 inhabitants in 2001 and
covers 10,48 km².
António Martins, 24 Oct 2008
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