meaning of portugal flag
I am an arborist. Graduate study, travel, work make me an expert in benthics, European languages, wildlife mapping, world fauna and flora. The meaning of the colors and the symbols on Portugal's flag is as follows, item by item: 1. The flag of Portugal has a two-color field that's divided unequally so that about two-fifths is taken up by a dark green color and about three-fifths by a scarlet red. There has been much controversy over what the green and the red colors mean. But a common interpretation gives to the green the meaning of hope and to the red the meaning of knowledge through one's own experiences and senses. 2. Centered over the color boundary between the green and the red is the armillary sphere.