Baião Municipality (Portugal)

Concelho de Baião, Distrito do Porto

Last modified: 2017-02-04 by klaus-michael schneider
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• About the Flag
• Former Flag (1934 - 1937)
• Version without Coat of Arms
• Presentation of Baião

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

About the Flag

The flag is blue (light blue in my sources) with coat of arms centred.
Jorge Candeias, 9 Oct 1998

The coat of arms is 100% typical: 4-towered mural crown (town rank), scroll reading "CONCELHO DE BAIÃO" and shield. The shield is blue with a wide golden bordure according to my sources , and is charged with a bunch of grapes surrounded by a laurel all in the same colour as the bordure, below 3 silver-blue-silver wavy lines. The bordure is charged with eight blue castles with port and windows in the same colour as the border, disposed as the castles of the portuguese coat of arms.
Meaning:
The wavy lines stand for the Douro River and the bunch of grapes for the wine produced there, but the castles and the laurel are mysteries to me.
Jorge Candeias, 9 Oct 1998

It was a typical Portuguese communal flag, with the coat of arms centred on a field quartered of white and purple.
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 27 Jan 2017

Shield Or with base wavy of Azure and Argent, a grapevine Purpure leaved Vert, bordure Sable, charged with eight pomegranates Argent, seeded Gules and leaved Vert. Mural crown Argent with three visible towers (town rank)and white scroll with inscription in black capitals "CONCELHO DE BAIÃO".
Meaning:
The wavy lines stand for the Douro River and the grapevine for the wine produced there.
Jorge Candeias, 9 Oct 1998 and Klaus-Michael Schneider, 27 Jan 2017

Flag and arms published in the official journal Diário do Governo, I Série on 20 January 1937, the former symbols in Diário do Governo, I Série on 23 January 1934.
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 27 Jan 2017

Presentation of Baião

Baião is a town located in the north of Portugal. It belongs to the district of Porto (Oporto), old province of Douro Litoral, future eventual region of Entre Douro e Minho. The municipality is small both in area and in population: nearly 22 000 inhabitants and covering 175.7 km², but has quite a good number of communes 14 (in 2013). It’s economy is, as far as I know, rural. This town is located on the border between two regions of known wines: Oporto and Vinho Verde and the municipality is limited to the south by the Douro River.
Jorge Candeias, 9 Oct 1998

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