Santa Cruz da Graciosa Municipality (Portugal)

Concelho de Santa Cruz da Graciosa, Açores

Last modified: 2015-10-25 by klaus-michael schneider
Keywords: santa cruz da graciosa | coat of arms: bordure (black) | coat of arms: orle (wavy) | goshhawk (brown) | quina | grapes (yellow) |
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• About the flag
• Presentation of Santa Cruz da Graciosa

• Santa Cruz da Graciosa Communes
• Portugal

• Page about Santa Cruz da Graciosa at the Portuguese Municipalities’s Association website (incl. image of the arms)
  reported by António Martins, 18 Nov 2001
• Santa Cruz da Graciosa, at the English Wikipedia
  reported by António Martins-Tuválkin, 24 Sep 2007

About the flag

It is a fairly typical portuguese municipal flag, with the coat of arms centered on a plain yellow background. Flag and arms adopted and published in the official journal Diário do Governo : II Série in 1962.07.17, an unusually late date.
António Martins-Tuválkin, 24 Sep 2007

Coat of arms

The arms are Sable a bunch of grapes Or and on the chief of an orle Vert charged with six fesses wavy Argent a goshawk Proper holding an escutcheon Azure charged with five plates Argent set in saltire. Mural crown argent with four visible towers (town rank) and white scroll reading in black upper case letters "Santa Cruz da Graciosa".
António Martins-Tuválkin, 24 Sep 2007

Presentation of Santa Cruz da Graciosa

Santa Cruz da Graciosa municipality had 4780 inhabitants in 2001 and consists of 4 communes covering 60,94 km², taking up the whole of Graciosa (meaning "fair") Island . It is part of Azores Region (also a NUTS II and traditional province), and of former Angra do Heroísmo District. "Santa cruz da Graciosa" means "holy cross of Graciosa".
António Martins-Tuválkin, 24 Sep 2007

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