Albergaria-a-Velha Municipality (Portugal)

Concelho de Albergaria-a-Velha, Distrito de Aveiro

Last modified: 2014-10-30 by klaus-michael schneider
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• About the Flag
• Version without Coat of Arms
• Presentation of Albergaria-a-Velha

• Albergaria-a-Velha Communes
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• Page about Albergaria-a-Velha 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 quartered purple over yellow field.
António Martins-Tuválkin, 3 Oct 1998

Arms: or, a couped cross Azure free, bordure Sable with eight heraldic roses Or barbed Vert seeded Gules, mural crown Argent of four towers (town status), white scroll reading in black capitals. "VILA DE ALBERGARIA-A-VELHA".
António Martins-Tuválkin,

Meaning:

António Martins-Tuválkin,

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

Presentation of Albergaria-a-Velha

This municipality has 22 220 inhabitants in 145 km² (six communes) and belongs to the old province and region to be of Beira Litoral and to the current District of Aveiro
António Martins-Tuválkin, 3 Oct 1998 and Sérgio Horta, 26 Oct 1999

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