About Guimarães

Guimarães is located in northwestern Portugal, aproximately 350 km north of the capital, Lisbon, and about 50 km from the second largest city, Oporto. Guimarães benefits from the proximity to the Francisco Sá Carneiro International Airport, located in Oporto and used by the most important airlines, including low cost airlines for domestic, international and transcontinental flights.

Guimarães is a city with a glorious historical past, whose history is linked to the origins of Portuguese language and the founding of Portugal's national identity in the 12th century.

The Historical Quarter of Guimarães constitutes a unique vestige of a particular type of city design. It is characterized by the morphology of its medieval urban fabric, which comprises a succession of squares of great formal value and environmental quality, and a particular type of construction that is diversified, but with great formal unity overall, which was fully erected using traditional building techniques called rodízio (castered) partition wall and fasquio (lathed) partition wall.

This unique site, which UNESCO classified on the 13 December of 2001, is the city's most reproductive and lasting investment.

For further information about Guimarães please visit Turismo de Guimarães web page.