Boticas Municipality (Portugal)

Last modified: 2010-09-19 by antónio martins
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• About the flag
• Version without the coat of arms
• Presentation of Boticas BTC

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• Page about the municipal flag and coat of arms of Boticas at Sérgio Horta’s website (in Portuguese).
  reported by Jorge Candeias, 29 Feb 1999
• Page about Boticas at the Portuguese Municipalities’s Association website (incl. image of the arms)
  reported by António Martins, 18 Nov 2001

About the flag

It is a fairly typical portuguese municipal flag, with the coat of arms centered on a plain blue background. Flag and arms adopted and published in the official journal Diário do Governo : II Série in 1949.04.20.
António Martins, 03 Apr 2007

The arms are Argent between two pairs of fesses wavy Azure and surrounded by two pairs of wheat ears Vert tied Gules a bee Sable emphasized Sable. Mural crown argent with four visible towers (town rank) and white scroll reading in black upper case letters "Vila de Boticas".
António Martins, 03 Apr 2007

The fesses stands for local rivers, the wheat means farming, the bee means workmanship, and the heraldic metals and colors bear the usual pseudo-historical claptrap: green for hope and faith, red for strength, vigour and stamina, black for firmness and honestey, blue for charity and loyalty and white humility and wealth.
António Martins, 03 Apr 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 Boticas

Boticas municipality had 6417 inhabitants in 2001 and consists of 16 communes covering 322,41 km². It is part of Vila Real District, traditional province and 1999 ref. adm. region Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro, C.C.R. / NUTS II Norte, and NUTS III Alto Trás-os-Montes.

"Boticas" may mean either "stores", or "shops" (from Greek "apoþeka"), or be a diminutive of "boots". These arms are canting for neither of these percieved meanings.

António Martins, 03 Apr 2007

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