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Saint-Quay-Portrieux (Municipality, Côtes-d'Armor, France)

Flag of Saint-Quay-Portrieux - Image by Olivier Touzeau , 13 November 2021

Presentation of Saint-Quay-Portrieux
Coat of arms and logo of Saint-Quay-Portrieux
Current flags of Saint-Quay-Portrieux
Former flags of Saint-Quay-Portrieux
Club de Voile du Portrieux

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Presentation of Saint-Quay-Portrieux

Saint-Quay-Portrieux (3,159 inhabitants; 387 ha) is a municipality made by the reunion of Saint-Quay and Portrieux, two maritime villages separated by a cape. It is a well-known seaside resort, now disfigured by a huge harbour station.

Ivan Sache, 16 June 1998

Coat of arms and logo of Saint-Quay-Portrieux

The coat of arms of Saint-Quay-Portrieux is blazonned: Or a lymphad Sable, sails furled Gules, pennoned Gules and flagged per pale Azure and Or, on a sea Vert; the chief Azure a crozier Or issuant flanked at dexter and senester with 5 spots of counter-ermine saltirewise.
Several variants exist with a sometimes 3+3 ermine spots, a Gules ship sailed Sable, ...

The current logo of Saint-Quay-Portrieux was adopted in 2015 (source). The former logo had been adopted in 1990.
For several years, the city logo had been used in an increasingly haphazard way, both by city departments and partners: with or without dashes, on one or two lines, with different shades or typographies... Very typical "Côtes d´Armor" (in shapes and colors), the logo "was drowned" somewhat in all other local identities, according to the municipality. In December 2014, the municipal team and services launched a consultation with graphic design agencies to support them in a change of the logo. The LA RAFFINERIE agency in Lannion was chosen. In March 2015, the Mayor then invited all elected officials to a brainstorming meeting on the choice of the city's new logo. At the end of this meeting, the "SQPx" logo was chosen. Some adjustments have been made to arrive at the final version. This new visual identity aims above all to modernize, affirm and energize the image of Saint-Quay-Portrieux. The logo was chosen "for its simplicity, its obviousness and its strength".

Current flags of Saint-Quay-Portrieux

Variant flags of Saint-Quay-Portrieux - Images by Olivier Touzeau, 13 November 2021

Several variants of the flags with the new logo have been in use since 2015:

blue field, white logo. Observed in front of the city hall (2023, photo), in the port (2019, photo; 2018, photo).
yellow field, all blue logo. Observed in the port (2019, photo).
yellow field, black logo with blue shapes in the letters Q and the P. Observedin front of the city hall in 2020 (photo).

Olivier Touzeau , 13 November 2021 & 2 September 2023

Former flags of Saint-Quay-Portrieux

Former white flags of Saint-Quay-Portrieux - left: with coat of arms, right: with 1990-2015 logo - images by Olivier Touzeau, 13 November 2021.

White flags, with the coat of arms or with the logo, were observed in the years 2000. The white flag with coat of arms was still in use after 2015 :

white flag with coat of arms (photo, date and context unknown)
white flag with the 1990 logo + white flag with coat of arms (photo; observed in 2013, in front of the city hall)
white flag with the 1990 logo + bicolor blue and yellow, with the name of the commune countercharged (photo; observed in 2013, in the port).

Olivier Touzeau , 13 November 2021

Former bicolor flag of Saint-Quay-Portrieux - left: plain, image by Ivan Sache, 16 June 1998; right : defaced, image by Olivier Touzeau, 13 November 2021.

The municipal flag, widely used in the village, is vertically divided blue and yellow.

Ivan Sache, 16 June 1998

The yellow and blue simple bicolor flag reported had often, from the end of the 1990ies to the begining of the 2010 years the name of the commune (in counterchanged colours). This flag was observed for example, according to Pascal Vagnat, in Griffon magazine [magazine municipal de la ville de Saint-Brieuc], n°142, septembre-octobre 1997, p.8; in the Guide touristique 2003 "Saint-Quay-Portrieux. Côtes d'Armor. Bretagne", p.4.
Here it is (photo), observed in 2011, in the port.

Olivier Touzeau , 13 November 2021

Club de Voile du Portrieux

Burgee of CVP - Image by Ivan Sache, 22 September 2003

The burgee of Club de Voile du Portieux, as seen on a car sticker, is blue with a red chevron placed horizontally

Former burgee of CVP - Image by Ivan Sache, 22 September 2003

A light blue burgee with two thin red stripe was seen as a very old painting on a CVP booth. It is probably an outdated version of the CVP burgee.

Other reported burgee of CVP - Image by Ivan Sache, 25 December 2004

The list of the clubs affiliated to Yacht Club de France shows a third burgee for CVP, horizontally divided blue-red-blue-red-blue.

Ivan Sache, 25 December 2004