Póvoa do Varzim Municipality (Portugal)

Last modified: 2001-09-14 by antonio martins
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Arms: azure, an anchor, with iron and ring argent and shaft or forming a raguly cross, entangled in a rosary with 18 globes or on a brown string, between at sinister a moon argent, open dexter, and dexter a sun or, argent mural crown of five towers (city status), scroll reading "PÓVOA DO VARZIM".
António Martins, 03 Oct 1998

The scroll is usually black on white — though still a number of sources show it yellow on blue.
António Martins, 22 Aug 1999

This municipality has 55 810 inhabitants in 86 km² and belongs to the old province of Douro Litoral, to the region to be of Entre-Douro-e-Minho and to the current Porto District.
António Martins, 03 Oct 1998

In this municipality seat, the fishermen city of Póvoa do Varzim, traditional sea vessels and tombstones display a quite interesting traditional para-heraldic system showing cadency, inheritance and ancestry, consisting of main symbols and “modifiers”, known as siglas poveiras.
António Martins, 03 Oct 1998