Town Arms, Municiple Markets, Quarteira, Portugal.
Posted by: Groundspeak Premium Member greysman
N 37° 04.135 W 008° 06.453
29S E 579335 N 4102890
There are municiple coats of arms on both the Mercado do Peixe, Fish Market, and the Mercado da Fuita, the Fruit Market.
Waymark Code: WMRPGY
Location: Faro, Portugal
Date Posted: 07/18/2016
Published By:Groundspeak Premium Member Dorcadion Team
Views: 14

In the Largo do Mercado, at the western end of the Avenida Infante de Sagres, are Quarteira's two municiple markets, the fish market, Mercado do Peixe, and the fruit market, Mercado da Fruita. Both are painted on the street faces white and blue, the fish market a long, low four-bay flat-roofed building mainly blue whilst the fruit market is a two-bay construction with gables painted white with blue highlights.

Each of the fruit market's gables has a coat-of arms painted above the building's use description, the fish market has the use descriptor in the bay junctions and a single arms in the centre above the 'DO'.

Bearer of Coat of Arms: Town

Full name of the bearer: Quarteira

Where is Coat of Arms installed (short description) ?:
See main description.


Material / Design: Painting on plaster

Address:
Mercado do Peixe, Largo do Mercado 3, 8125-167 Quarteira.


Web page about the bearer of Coat of Arms (if exists): [Web Link]

Blazon (heraldic description): Not listed

Web page about the structure where is Coat of Arms installed (if exists): Not listed

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