Murça Municipality (Portugal)

Last modified: 2010-09-03 by antónio martins
Keywords: murça | coat of arms: chief | grapes (yellow) | olive tree | tree: olive | sow | neolithic | sculpture |
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• About the flag
• Version without the coat of arms
• Presentation of Murça MUR

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• Page about the municipal flag and coat of arms of Murça at Sérgio Horta’s website (in Portuguese).
  reported by Jorge Candeias, 29 Feb 1999
• Page about Murça at the Portuguese Municipalities’s Association website (incl. image of the arms)
  reported by António Martins, 18 Nov 2001
• Murça at the English Wikipedia
  reported by António Martins, 20 Jun 2007

About the flag

It is fairily typical portuguese municipal flag, with the coat of arms centered on yellow and black quarterly (town rank) background. Flag and arms adopted and published in the official journal Diário do Governo : I Série in 1936.03.12.
António Martins, 20 Jun 2007

The arms are Argent an olive tree vert fruited and trunked and erradicated Sable between two bunches of grapes Or leaved and held Vert and on a chief Sable a representation of the “Murça sow” megalith Argent. Mural crown argent with four visible towers (town rank) and white scroll reading in black upper case letters "Murça".
António Martins, 20 Jun 2007

The “Murça sow” is an ancient sculpture, from the lower Neolithic period. They call it a sow but it protraits a male animal, either a boar of perhaps a bear. On an image the Wikimedia Commons (context) you can see it in greater detail and how tackyness pervails: Unearth a thousands-year old carving and tow it to the town’s square up on a late 19th cent. pedestal.
António Martins, 21 Jun 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 Murça

Murça municipality had 6752 inhabitants in 2001 and consists of 9 communes covering 189,36 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.
António Martins, 20 Jun 2007

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