Last modified: 2002-02-07 by antonio martins
Keywords: error | ratio: 9:13 |
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This flag (officially lowered
for the last time at the private residence of the last portuguese
governor of Macao) is wrong!! It has towers
instead of castles! (That is a quite usual mistake, by the way.) Some
joke of an empire, I say: they dont even care to have properly depicted
flags!
António Martins, 23 Dec 1999
![[wrong flag]](../images/p/pt!err13.gif)
However I was shocked to learn that flag manufacturers make the
national flag in 90×130 cm dimentions (ratio 9:13), instead of the
correct 90×135 cm (ratio 2:3): I was told by one of them that it is
so because 130 is a “more even” number than 135!... At any rate,
however, larger flags follow the official proportions: seems that
f.i. the figures 2×3 m are “even” enough... However, since 90 cm
high are the most often used flags, one can say that there are more
wrong flags in use than correct ones.
António Martins, 13 Jul 1999
![[wrong flag]](../images/p/pt!rlbbc.gif)
The average portuguese flag... lacking the armillary sphere... I found
this in a restaurant in Barcelona, serving brazilian and portuguese cuisine.
It could be a monarchist flag,
using though the republican colors and lacking
the crown — but it would be the only one I ever saw. I bet for sheer
ignorance and carelessness.
António Martins, 18 Jul 1999 and 07 Nov 2001
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