A cidade de Guimarães parece ter nascido já durante o período da alta idade média, em terras que pertenciam à Condessa Mumadona Dias e seu marido Conde Hermenegildo Mendes. Após a morte do Conde, nos meados do séc. X Mumadona Dias herdara Vimaranes, e teria de executar uma das verbas testamentárias do marido, a construção de um mosteiro para frades e freiras, dedicado ao Salvador do Mundo, à Virgem Maria e aos doze Apóstolos, sob a regra dos eremitas de S. Pacómio. Durante as invasões normandas, e a fim de proteger o Mosteiro contra as incursões dos vikings e mulçumanos, mandou construir na colina mais próxima do Mosteiro a primeira fortificação, de madeira e terra. Foi Cabeça do territorio do Condado Portucalense.
Penha Sanctuary - In a magic park composed by big stones and refreshing old trees, we can spend a day exploring a natural stone maze.
Aerial view at 60m above the main facades of the old Monastery of S. Francisco at Guimarães. The original church from 13th Century was tranformed during the 18th Century. The main facade has its original gothic structure. My objective was to have ...
The Church of Nossa Senhora da Oliveira (1397-1450), belonged to the old medieval monastery. It is the result of a Gothic reconstruction. Between 1450-1515 has undergone important changes at the main chapel, and later in the 17th century was expan...
Tourism Office in a old building of the historical center of Guimarães - Portugal
15th Century Palace of the Portuguese Duke D.Afonso.The French architect Anton designed it, based on French and Italian Palaces.
A former Gothic Convent, transformed during the 17th Century. You can visit the cloister by visiting the Morais Sarmento Museum.
S.Torcato sanctuary. The construction of the current church S.Torcato, near Guimarães, began an international architectural competition in 1866, which won a project of the architect Ludwig Bohãstedt (1822-1885). The work began in 1879 and was init...
The first Castle of Guimarães (probably castle of wood, based on the rocks) is associated with the century. X and Countess Mamadona Dias, married to Count Hermenegildo Gonçalves. The castle would have been built to protect the monastery by it foun...
This square was a yard outside the city walls, next to the main door of the village, and was where the cattle fair was made. Today is considered the heart of the city, and suffered a minimalist remodeling in 2012, when Guimarães was the European C...
The Square of the Oliveira owes its name to a secular olive tree planted in this place. Surrounded by picturesque houses typically northerns, it is the ideal starting point to walk the streets of the city. But on the wide, there are a few reasons ...
Ducal palace built by the founder of the house of Bragança, one of the richest men in Portugal, more worship and more traveled, the D.Fonso (1377-1461) Count of Barcelos, shortly after becoming Lord of the village of Guimarães. It was concluded by...
Previously there was a temple of the IX and X century, identified in the convent recovery process, some stretches of the same that could have been a Ducal Palace of the first Portucalense Condes. Dona Mafalda, the first Portuguese Queen, founded h...
One of the most beautiful churches in Guimarães, was founded by Régia letter from D.João I of November 3, 1400. Its origin, however, is more remote and corresponds to the coming to this city of the first Friars of Poverello de Assisi, in the middl...
