Our flag, our nation…
The Portuguese flag has a great symbolism about the Portuguese history, a country with more than 800 years of history.
Our flag is bipartite in two fundamental colours, dark green and red. In the centre, and to unite the two colours, there is the coat of national arms, edged of white and placed above the Manuelina armillary sphere, in yellow and black.
As I said, each part of Portuguese flag has a great meaning:
-The five blue shields represent the five moor kings defeated by the first King of Portugal, D. Afonso Henriques, at the Battle of Ourique;
-The dots inside the blue shields represent the five wounds of Christ when crucified; -Counting the dots and doubling those five in the centre, there are thirty dots that represents the coins Judas received for having betrayed Christ;
-The seven castles represent the fortified cities D. Afonso Henriques conquered from the moors;
-The globe represents the world discovered by the Portuguese navigators in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries;
-The green strip is meant to symbolize hope for the future and the red the blood of the nation’s heroes.
This is our flag, a symbol of pride, honour, hope and history, like one day Camões said: “This is my fortunate, beloved homeland”.
By Cátia, 11ºD
Our flag is bipartite in two fundamental colours, dark green and red. In the centre, and to unite the two colours, there is the coat of national arms, edged of white and placed above the Manuelina armillary sphere, in yellow and black.
As I said, each part of Portuguese flag has a great meaning:
-The five blue shields represent the five moor kings defeated by the first King of Portugal, D. Afonso Henriques, at the Battle of Ourique;
-The dots inside the blue shields represent the five wounds of Christ when crucified; -Counting the dots and doubling those five in the centre, there are thirty dots that represents the coins Judas received for having betrayed Christ;
-The seven castles represent the fortified cities D. Afonso Henriques conquered from the moors;
-The globe represents the world discovered by the Portuguese navigators in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries;
-The green strip is meant to symbolize hope for the future and the red the blood of the nation’s heroes.
This is our flag, a symbol of pride, honour, hope and history, like one day Camões said: “This is my fortunate, beloved homeland”.
By Cátia, 11ºD
1 comment:
Fantastic post.
I really loved it because even I have learnt so much about the meaning of our flags symbols.
I am proud of being Portuguese.
Love!...
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