Rio Maior Municipality (Portugal)

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• Page about the municipal flag and coat of arms of Rio Maior at Sérgio Hortaʼs website (in Portuguese).
  reported by Jorge Candeias, 29 Feb 1999
• Page about Rio Maior at the Portuguese Municipalitiesʼs Association website (incl. image of the arms)
  reported by António Martins, 18 Nov 2001

Commune flags

Publish on Diário da República (the official journal), on 05/08/1999: Or field, 2 mounts vert charge with argent salt pyramid, over 5 wavy fess, 3 argent and 2 azure, in chief a purple bunch of grapes, lieffed vert. Argent 3 towers mural crown. White scroll with "FREGUESIA DE RIO MAIOR" in upper case black letters. Flag — quartered purple over white.
Sérgio Horta, 26 Oct 2001

The salt pyramid stands for the local unique salt mines — an underground filon of fossil seaborne halite which is drained by a river (also shown on the arms, as usual, and refered in the townʼs name — canting arms) and deposited in a small aluvial plain, the salt being thus twice dissolved.
António Martins, 04 Nov 2001

Arms detail