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![[Seia municipal flag #1]](../images/p/pt-sei1.gif) 2:3, image by António Martins-Tuválkin and Sérgio Horta, 3 July 2025 |
![[Seia municipal flag #2]](../images/p/pt-sei2.gif) 2:3, image by António Martins-Tuválkin and Sérgio Horta, 3 July 2025 |
![[Seia municipal flag #3]](../images/p/pt-sei3.gif) 2:3, image by António Martins-Tuválkin and Sérgio Horta, 3 July 2025 |
It is a typical Portuguese municipal flag, with the coat of arms centred on a field gyronny of eight of yellow and blue
(see left image above) or blue and yellow (see central and right images above).
Sources: Sérgio Horta´s webpage
and municipal webpage
António Martins-Tuválkin, 3 July 2025
![[Seia municipal plain flag]](../images/p/pt-sei0.gif)
2:3 image by António Martins-Tuválkin,
![[Seia (town) municipal flag]](../images/p/pt-sei4.gif)
2:3 image by Sérgio Horta, 19 Jan 2007
The change was caused by the upgrading of Seia to city status, officialised on 23 August 1986.
There were no changes to the coat of arms other than the trivial routine switch from 4 to 5 visible towers in the mural crown,
but the change in flag pattern was not just the trivial switch from quarterrd to gyronny of eight , but also from red/blue to blue/yellow.
![[Seia municipal CoA]](../images/p/pt-sei).gif)
image by António Martins-Tuválkin and Sérgio Horta, 3 July 2025
Shield Or an embattled tower Gules masoned and with port and windows Sable between two kermes oaks Vert eradicated of the same
and below a 6-point star Azure. Mural crown argent with five visible towers (city rank) and white scroll
reading in black upper case letters scroll reading in black upper case letters "CIDADE DE SEIA".
Meaning:
The star refers to the the eponym local mountain range, Serra da Estrela, while the other elements, I guess, have trivial meanings.
The original wording is "torre torreada", which means something like "towered tower" and means
that the base of the tower is wider and there is a crenelly "balcony" all around the tower at mid-height;
almost like a castle with a single tower. The plants are specifically kermes oaks (Latin. Quercus coccifera), which are usually not
trees, but shrubs, as sort-of depicted in these arms.
Source: Ralf Hartemink´s webpage
António Martins-Tuválkin, 18 Jan 2007
The current symbols have never been officialised in Diário da República.
António Martins-Tuválkin, 18 Jan 2007
The 29 January Law 11-A from 29 January 2013, see here, created seven new communes in this municipality by joining together 15
of the previous communes, leaving unchanged fourteen others: the current total is 21 communes.
António Martins-Tuválkin, 5 July 2025
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