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Ponta Delgada Municipality (Portugal)

Concelho de Ponta Delgada, Açores

2:3 image by Sérgio Horta, 19 Dec 2006

About the flag
Version without the coat of arms
Presentation of Ponta Delgada
Other flags
- Clube Desportivo de Santa Clara
- Clube Naval de Ponta Delgada

See also:

External links:

Ponta Delgada at the English Wikipedia
reported by Miguel de Faria e Castro, 06 Feb 2007

About the flag

It is a quite 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 1946.10.24.
António Martins, 19 Dec 2006

Coat of arms

image by Sérgio Horta, 19 Dec 2006

The arms are gules seven arrows or pointing downwards and tied argent and in chief a goshawk proper in flight holding an escutcheon azure charged with five plates set per saltire. Mural crown argent with five visible towers (city rank) and white scroll reading in black upper case letters "PONTA DELGADA".
António Martins, 19 Dec 2006

The arms show the attributes of St. Sebastian (just like, e.g., colonial Mozambique), the municipal patron.
António Martins, 19 Dec 2006

The city of Ponta Delgada was born out of the village of São Sebastião, which nowadays constitutes the city’s core Freguesia (it is also known as Freguesia da Matriz, for that reason). That may explain why the city’s coat of arms displays the traditional St. Sebastian parafernalia.
Miguel de Faria e Castro, 06 Feb 2007

Version without the coat of arms

Plain (monocolored) portuguese subnational flags are not allowed to have armless variations: plain flags always carry the coat of arms.
Jorge Candeias, 18 Jul 1999

Presentation of Ponta Delgada

Ponta Delgada municipality had 65 718 inhabitants in 2001, and it is divided in 24 communes, covering 231,9 km². It is part of: Azores Autonomous Region, former Ponta Delgada District, traditional province, NUTS I, NUTS II and NUTS III Açores. "Ponta delgada" means "thin tip", refering to a local cape.
António Martins, 19 Dec 2006

Other flags

Clube Desportivo de Santa Clara

image by António Martins, Jorge Candeias and André Serranho, 23 Jul 1999 See also:

Portuguese sport flags

External links:

Clube Desportivo de Santa Clara official website
reported by Dov Gutterman, 27 Jan 1999

The flag of Clube Desportivo de Santa Clara, with a logo almost identical to that of Benfica, of whom this club is a “filial”.
António Martins, 23 Jul 1999

Clube Naval de Ponta Delgada

image by António Martins, 15 Apr 2000 See also:

Portuguese yachting flags

Ogival shield with “Portugal ancien” on double fimbriated red cross on white.
António Martins, 23 Jul 1999

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