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image by António Martins, 19 Apr 2016
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São Filipe is a municipality of Cabo Verde that takes up the
western half of Fogo isl.; more than half the
island’s population lives here, mostly in the namesake seat town.
António Martins, 19 Apr 2016
This municipality is located at the west of Fogo Island,
taking up almost half of its land area, limited by the crater rim and by two
almost straight drainage lines, much shorter at the north.
Its seat is the namesake city and it’s one of the three municipalities
that split Fogo Island. Before the creation of the other municipalities
(when?), this one encompassed the totality of the island, and it was
named instead Fogo Municipality (Município do Fogo, a.k.a.
Concelho do Fogo). (An identical situation occurred in
São Nicolau island/mun.)
António Martins, 29 Dec 2025
The municipal flag is plain red with its emblem centered on it. The
emblem is red and white with black lining (rendered as yellow stitching
on the flag?), quasi-heraldic in nature: The shield has a samnitic point,
pointy chief corners, and a domed top, and it is divided per pale, the
sinister including a sun sector above the outline of a mountain with a
plume of smoke, surely standing for the island’s huge volcano. (I cannot
interpret any other details.) Below the shield, a white scroll reading
"Município de São Filipe" in black capitals.
António Martins, 19 Apr 2016
The exact depiction of the emblem on the flag seems to vary or even
differ from the official logo
image online, as suggested by
this
photo of the 2013 Flag Day parade, where the scroll
end is parallel to the bottom edge of the flag. See more images of both
depictions in this
slideshow hosted in the official website. Sadly the
heraldry page of the
official website is so far empty.
António Martins, 19 Apr 2016
March 29th is municipal day and also
municipal flag day (Dia do Município
e da Bandeira de São Filipe), and it has been celebrated since
at least 2013. (Sources:
2016,
2016,
2013.)
António Martins, 19 Apr 2016
image by Sérgio Horta and António Martins, 29 Dec 2025 |
(source)
The colonial-era municipal flag is a typical Portuguese
municipal flag,
consisting of a 2:3 white over red gyronny background with the
coat of arms centered on it. Mural crown Argent with five
visible towers (city rank) and white scroll
reading in black upper case serifed letters "Cidade de S. Filipe" (as usual,
the scroll contains the name of the municipal seat, with rank epithet, not the
name of the municipality).
The banner should have silvery and purple (instead of the expected red!)
tassels and cord, and golden staff with a spear finial.
Flag and arms approved by the Overseas Ministry in Ministerial Diploma
(Diploma Legislativo Ministerial) n.º 6 and published in the official
journal (of the colony) Boletim Oficial de Cabo Verde : I Série :
14.º Suplemento of 1955.05.24.
António Martins, 29 Dec 2025
At HeraldicaCivica.PT
we can see Sérgio Horta’s account of these arms and flag, drawn in
the same style as contemporary CHAAP artwork;
other sources, such as [lgh66] and
postage stamps,
may differ in details.
António Martins, 29 Dec 2025
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image by António Martins, 29 Feb 2010
Non-monocolored portuguese subnational flags are
allowed to have armless variations.
Jorge Candeias, 18 Jul 1999
While the current law, adopted in 1991,
doesn’t apply to municipal flags in the colonies, independent in 1975, it
however draws most of its content from the 1930 ministerial dispatch, incl.
the regulation of armless variations allowed for non-monocolor municipal flags.
This 1930 ruling affected all future Portuguese municipal flags, including the
colonial ones.
António Martins, Feb 2026
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image by Sérgio Horta and António Martins, 29 Dec 2025 |
(source)
The arms have on a shield Argent a mound Sable garnished Argent flamed Gules and flanked chiefwards by two eschutcheons Azure each charged with five plates arrayed per quincunx and on a chief Vert a coffee twig Or fructed Sable.
De prata, um monte de negro, polvilhado de prata e rematado por flamas de vermelho. Ladeiam o monte os dois escudetes das Quinas de Portugal. Chefe de verde, os frutos de cafezeiro de negro folhados de ouro e as folhas estendidas em faixa. Coroa mural de cinco torres de prata. Listel branco com os dizeres "CIDADE DE S. FILIPE". Bandeira - Gironada de branco e vermelho. Cordões e borlas de prata e púrpura. Lança e hasta douradas.António Martins, 29 Dec 2025
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