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.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Places of Interest
Highlights include 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. Its construction took from 1390 until the mid 16th century, combining Gothic and Manueline architectural styles.
Guarda
- Categories: municipality of Portugal and locality
- Location: Guarda District, Portugal, Iberia, Europe
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Latitude
40.5378° or 40° 32′ 16″ northLongitude
-7.2663° or 7° 15′ 59″ westPopulation
26,000Elevation
1,008 metres (3,307 feet)United Nations Location Code
PT GDAOpen location code
8CGJGPQM+4FOpenStreetMap ID
node 1084227094OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Welsh—“Guarda” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Guarda, Portugal”
- Arabic: “غوآردا”
- Arabic: “غوردة”
- Aragonese: “Guarda”
- Armenian: “Գուարդա”
- Asturian: “Guarda”
- Basque: “Guarda (Portugal)”
- Basque: “Guarda”
- Bengali: “গোয়ারডা”
- Bengali: “গোয়ার্দা”
- Breton: “Guarda”
- Catalan: “Guarda”
- Cebuano: “Guarda”
- Chechen: “Гуарда”
- Chinese: “Guarda”
- Chinese: “瓜达”
- Chinese: “瓜達”
- Czech: “Guarda”
- Danish: “Guarda Kommune”
- Dutch: “Guarda (Portugal)”
- Dutch: “Guarda (stad in Portugal)”
- Dutch: “Guarda”
- Egyptian Arabic: “جوآردا”
- Esperanto: “Guarda”
- Finnish: “Guarda”
- French: “Guarda”
- Galician: “Guarda, Portugal”
- Galician: “Guarda”
- Georgian: “გუარდა”
- German: “Guarda”
- Greek: “Γκουάρντα”
- Gujarati: “ગાર્ડા”
- Hindi: “गार्डा”
- Hindi: “गुआर्दा”
- Indonesian: “Guarda, Portugal”
- Indonesian: “Guarda”
- Irish: “Guarda”
- Italian: “Guarda”
- Japanese: “グアルダ”
- Kannada: “ಗಾರ್ಡಾ”
- Korean: “구아르다”
- Latvian: “Guarda”
- 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”
- Persian: “گوآردا”
- Persian: “گواردا”
- Polish: “Guarda”
- Portuguese: “Guarda (Portugal)”
- Portuguese: “Guarda”
- Portuguese: “Município da Guarda”
- Romanian: “Guarda”
- Russian: “Гуарда”
- Serbian: “Гварда”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Guarda (Portugal)”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Guarda”
- Sinhala: “ගර්ඩා”
- Sinhala: “ගුඅර්ඩා”
- Slovak: “Guarda (mesto)”
- Slovak: “Guarda”
- Spanish: “Guarda”
- Swedish: “Guarda, Portugal”
- Swedish: “Guarda”
- Tamil: “குவார்டா”
- Tamil: “கோர்ட்தா”
- Tatar: “Гуарда”
- Telugu: “గువార్డా”
- Thai: “กรัวดา”
- Thai: “กัวดา”
- Turkish: “Guarda”
- Ukrainian: “Гуарда”
- Urdu: “گواردا، پرتگال”
- Vietnamese: “Guarda, Bồ Đào Nha”
- Volapük: “Guarda”
- Waray (Philippines): “Guarda (munisipyo), Portugal”
- Waray (Philippines): “Guarda, Portugal”
- Welsh: “Guarda”
- “Guarda”
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