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The Alcochete flag is an ordinary town
flag: a quartered flag of yellow over red with the arms in the center.
The coat of arms has a silver 4-towered mural crown, a scroll with
"VILA DE ALCOCHETE" written in black, and a silver
shield charged with four alternating blue and silver wavy stripes below,
a red cross of Avis above, charged with a golden
armilla with some devices attached that I cannot identify, and surrounded
by four vines of “red” grapes (blue-violet with green leaves).
Jorge Candeias, 18 Apr 1998
Guessing the meaning of the charges in the arms, I’d say that the wavy
lines stand for the river Tejo, the cross of Avis is a reflection of the
primitive owners of the territory after it’s conquest to the moors, the
order of Avis, and the grapes are symbols of agricultural richness and of
the wines of Alcochete.
Jorge Candeias, 18 Apr 1998
Yellow and red, quarterly.
Jorge Candeias, 07 Jul 1999
Alcochete is a town placed near Lisbon. The municipality belongs to
the district of Setúbal,
old province of Estremadura, has 94 sq km of
area and 10 050 inhabitants. If the regions go forward, it will be
part of the region of Lisboa and Setúbal. It
is mostly a rural area, placed in the east of the estuary of river Tejo.
In it’s territory is placed part of one of the most environmentally
important wet zones in Europe.
Jorge Candeias, 18 Apr 1998
It is divided in three communes.
António Martins, 2010
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