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An off-centred red cross, bordered white, on a green flag with the municipal arms in
a white rectangle on the cross.
Official website at
http://www.novaprata.rs.gov.br
Dirk Schönberger,
3 March 2012
The flag and arms of Nova Prata are prescribed by Municipal Law No. 1,084
promulgated on 10 April 1974.
Article 6.
The municipal flag of Nova
Prata, designed by the heraldist Arcinoé Antonio Peixoto de Faria, shall be
quartered by a cross, with green quarters formed by white stripes of two units
in width superimposed with red stripes of one unit, forming an off-centered
cross, whose arms' intersection is superimposed by a white rectangle of six
units in width on eight units in length, distant from two units in length from
the hoist, charged with the municipal coat of arms.
§1. In compliance
with the Portuguese and heraldic traditions, and their inherited canons and
rules, municipal flags have to be divided in eight, six, four or three quarters,
featuring the same colors as the coat of arms and in the center or at hoist a
geometrical figure inscribing the municipal coat of arms.
§2. The municipal
flag of Nova Prato obeys this general rule, being quartered by a cross recalling
the people's Christian spirit. The coat of arms applied on the flag represents
the municipal government while the white rectangle represents the town as the
municipal seat. White is a symbol of peace, friendship, work, prosperity, purity
and religious feeling. The white stripes charged with red stripes quartering the
flag in an off-centered cross represent the spread of municipal power all over
the territory. Red is a symbol of dedication, patriotic love, audacity,
intrepidity, courage and valiance, while the green quarters represent the rural
estates scattered over the municipal territory. Green is a symbol of honor,
civility, courtesy, glee and abundance; green also symbolizes hope as greening
fields in spring promising profuse harvests.
Article 7.
In compliance
with heraldic rules, the municipal flag shall have the official dimensions
adopted for the national flag, 14 units in width on 20 units in length.
Article 19.
The coat of arms of Nova Prato, designed by Walter Spelding and
with the colors of the shield's field altered as recommended by the heraldist
Arcinoé Antonio Peixoto de Faria, is described as follows:
A classical
Flemish-Iberian shield surmounted by a six-towered mural crown argent. Argent a
five-pointed star or surrounded by two stylized Brazilian pines proper on a base
vert crossed by a fess wavy argent and charged with a plow of the same. The
shield supported dexter by a branch fructed proper sinister by a maize plant
with open fruit. Beneath the shield a scroll gules inscribed in letters argent
the toponym "NOVA PRATA" surrounded by dates "1884" and "1924".
The coat
of arms has the following symbolic interpretation:
a) The classical
Flemish-Iberian shield, used to represent the arms of Nova Prato, also known as
"Portuguese shield" and originating from Germany, primarily introduced to Spain
during the struggle against the Moors, subsequently adopted in Portugal to
represent arms of domains, while family heraldry was previously represented by
shields of Samnite style of French origin.
The two styles were inherited by
Brazilian heraldry, as an evocation of the colonizing race and main builder of
our nation.
b) The mural crown surmounting the shield is the universal symbol
of coat of arms of domains; argent (silver) with six towers, four visible in
perspective, it classifies the town as of third rank or municipal seat.
c)
Argent (silver) is a symbol of peace, friendship, work, prosperity, purity and
religious feeling.
d) The five-pointed star featured in the shield's center,
gules (red), a a symbol of dedication, patriotic love, audacity, intrepidity,
courage, and valiance, is a symbol of safe guidance, aspiration to elevated
achievement and sublime acts and luminous future.
e) The Brazilian pine
proper represents the monumental work of reforestation pushed by the
municipality.
f) The base vert (green) recalls the southern hills, crossed by
a fess wavy argent (silver) representing the Silver River, the municipality's
namesake, and charged with a plow argent (silver) symbolizing the municipality's
rural origins.
g) Vert (green) is a symbol of honor, civility, courtesy,
glee, abundance; green also represents hope as the greening fields in spring
promising profuse harvests.
h) The outer ornaments, the fructed branches
proper and the maize plant, recall the main products supplied by the generous
and fertile soil.
i) On a scroll gules (red), in letters argent (silver), the
identifying toponym "NOVA PRATA" surrounded by years "1884", for the onset of
colonization, and "1924", for political emancipation.
https://leismunicipais.com.br/a/rs/n/nova-prata/lei-ordinaria/1974/109/1084/lei-ordinaria-n-1084-1974-dispoe-sobre-a-forma-e-a-apresentacao-dos-simbolos-do-municipio-e-da-outras-providencias
Leis Municipais database
Photos
https://www.facebook.com/pmnprs/photos/a.662835140498260/2253105044804587/?type=3&theater
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Ivan Sache, 1 August 2020
image by Ivan Sache, 1 August 2020
The flag of Nacional S.S. is horizontally divided red-white-blue-white-red
(2:1:3:1:2) with the club's emblem in the center.
Photo
https://www.facebook.com/pmnprs/photos/a.662835140498260/1104495306332239/?type=3&theater
Ivan Sache, 1 August 2020