Guarda
Guarda is a city of 43,000 people in Beira Alta, a region of Central Portugal. Guarda is the highest city in continental Portugal, located to the northeast of Serra da Estrela. The main attraction in Guarda is its cathedral, known as the Sé da Guarda.
- Type: City with 26,000 residents
- Description: municipality in Portugal
- Also known as: “Guarda (mesto)”, “Guarda (stad in Portugal)”, “Guarda Municipality”, “Guarda Municipality, Portugal”, “Guarda, Portugal”, “Município da Guarda”, “گواردا”, “গোয়ার্দা”, “கோர்ட்தா”, “ගුඅර්ඩා”, and “กรัวดา”
- Neighbors: Almeida, Belmonte, Covilhã, Gouveia, Pinhel, and Sabugal
Places of Interest
Highlights: Guarda Cathedral and Cruzeiro da Guarda.
Guarda Cathedral
Church
The Cathedral of Guarda is a Catholic church located in the northeastern city of Guarda, Portugal.
Guarda
- Categories: municipality of Portugal and locality
- Location: Guarda District, Portugal, Iberia, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
40.5378° or 40° 32′ 16″ north
Longitude
-7.2663° or 7° 15′ 59″ west
Population
26,000
Elevation
1,008 metres (3,307 feet)
UN/LOCODE
PT GDA
Open location code
8CGJGPQM+4F
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Welsh—“Guarda” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Guarda, Portugal”
- Amharic: “ጋርዳ”
- Arabic: “غوآردا”
- Arabic: “غوردا”
- Arabic: “غوردة”
- Aragonese: “Guarda”
- Armenian: “Գուարդա”
- Asturian: “Guarda”
- Azerbaijani: “Guarda”
- Azerbaijani: “Qvarda”
- Basque: “Guarda (Portugal)”
- Basque: “Guarda”
- Belarusian: “Гўарда”
- Bengali: “গুয়ার্দা”
- Bengali: “গোয়ারডা”
- Breton: “Guarda”
- Catalan: “Guarda”
- Cebuano: “Guarda”
- Chechen: “Гуарда”
- Chinese: “瓜达”
- Chinese: “瓜達”
- Czech: “Guarda”
- Danish: “Guarda Kommune”
- Dutch: “Guarda (Portugal)”
- Dutch: “Guarda”
- Egyptian Arabic: “جوآردا”
- Esperanto: “Guarda”
- Extremaduran: “Guarda”
- Finnish: “Guarda”
- French: “Guarda”
- Galician: “Guarda, Portugal”
- Galician: “Guarda”
- Georgian: “გუარდა”
- German: “Guarda”
- Greek: “Γκουάρντα”
- Gujarati: “ગાર્ડા”
- Hausa: “Guarda”
- Hindi: “गार्डा”
- Hindi: “गुआर्दा”
- Indonesian: “Guarda, Portugal”
- Indonesian: “Guarda”
- Irish: “Guarda”
- Italian: “Guarda”
- Japanese: “グアルダ”
- Javanese: “Guarda”
- Kannada: “ಗಾರ್ಡಾ”
- Kazakh: “Гуарда”
- Kirghiz: “Гуарда”
- Korean: “구아르다”
- Latvian: “Gvarda”
- Lithuanian: “Gvarda”
- Lombard: “Guarda (Portogall)”
- Lombard: “Guarda”
- Luxembourgish: “Guarda”
- Malay: “Guarda, Portugal”
- Malay: “Guarda”
- Marathi: “गार्डा”
- Mazanderani: “گوآردا”
- Mazanderani: “گوئاردا”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Guarda”
- Mingrelian: “გუარდა”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Guarda”
- Norwegian: “Guarda”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Guarda”
- Oromo: “Guarda”
- Panjabi: “ਗੁਆਰਦਾ”
- Persian: “گوآردا”
- Persian: “گوارد”
- Polish: “Guarda”
- Portuguese: “Guarda”
- Pushto: “گوارډا”
- Romanian: “Guarda”
- Russian: “Гуарда”
- Serbian: “Гварда”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Guarda (Portugal)”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Guarda”
- Sinhala: “ගර්ඩා”
- Slovak: “Guarda”
- Somali: “Guarda”
- Spanish: “Guarda”
- Swahili: “Guarda”
- Swedish: “Guarda, Portugal”
- Swedish: “Guarda”
- Tajik: “Гуарда”
- Tamil: “குவார்டா”
- Tatar: “Гуарда”
- Telugu: “గువార్డా”
- Thai: “กัวดา”
- Turkish: “Guarda”
- Ukrainian: “Гуарда”
- Ukrainian: “Ґуарда”
- Urdu: “گواردا، پرتگال”
- Urdu: “گوارڈا”
- Uzbek: “Guarda”
- Vietnamese: “Guarda, Bồ Đào Nha”
- Volapük: “Guarda”
- Waray (Philippines): “Guarda (munisipyo), Portugal”
- Waray (Philippines): “Guarda, Portugal”
- Welsh: “Guarda”
- “Guarda”
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