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Guimarães

Guimarães is a city in , northern . One of the country's most historical cities, it's known as the "Cradle of Portugal" since it was from there the "Condado Portucalense" grew into today's Portugal.
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  • Type: City with 47,600 residents
  • Description: municipality and city in Portugal
  • Also known as: “Guimaraes”, “Guimarães Municipality”, and “Guimarãis”
  • Neighbors: and

Places of Interest

Highlights include Estádio D. Afonso Henriques and Castle of Guimarães.

Stadium
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The is a football stadium in the city of Guimarães, Portugal. The stadium is home of Guimarães's most successful team, Vitória de Guimarães, presently competing in the top-flight Portuguese Liga.

Photo: fortes, CC BY-SA 2.0.
The is the principal medieval castle in the municipality Guimarães, in the northern region of . It was built under the orders of Mumadona Dias in the 10th century to defend the monastery from attacks by Moors and Norsemen.

Railway station
Photo: V.B.Speranza, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is the terminus of the Linha de Guimarães, a railway line that connects the city of with Guimarães, in the of .

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Creixomil and Azurém.

Village
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is a village.

Village
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is a civil parish in the municipality of Guimarães in the of . The population in 2021 was 9,090, in an area of 2.9 km2. One of the campus of the University of Minho if located here.

Village
Photo: Vitor Oliveira, CC BY-SA 2.0.
is a village.

Guimarães

Latitude
41.4418° or 41° 26′ 30″ north
Longitude
-8.2956° or 8° 17′ 44″ west
Population
47,600
Elevation
189 metres (620 feet)
United Nations Location Code
PT GUI
Open location code
8CHHCPR3+PQ
Open­Street­Map ID
node 1487887227
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
2738752
Wiki­data ID
Q170903
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In Other Languages

From Albanian to Wu Chinese—“Guimarães” goes by many names.
  • Albanian: “Guimarães”
  • Arabic: “غِمَرَيْش”
  • Arabic: “غيمارايش”
  • Aragonese: “Guimarães”
  • Armenian: “Գիմարայնշ”
  • Armenian: “Գիմարայնս”
  • Asturian: “Guimarães”
  • Azerbaijani: “Qimaraynş”
  • Balinese: “Guimarães”
  • Basque: “Guimaraes”
  • Basque: “Guimarães”
  • Belarusian: “Гімарайнш”
  • Bishnupriya: “গুইমারায়েস”
  • Bulgarian: “Гимараеш”
  • Catalan: “Guimaraes”
  • Catalan: “Guimarães”
  • Cebuano: “Guimarães (munisipyo sa Portugal, Distrito de Braga, lat 41,44, long -8,29)”
  • Cebuano: “Guimarães”
  • Chechen: “Гимарайнш”
  • Chinese: “Guimarães”
  • Chinese: “吉馬朗伊什”
  • Chinese: “吉馬朗伊斯”
  • Chinese: “吉马朗伊什”
  • Chinese: “吉马朗伊斯”
  • Chinese: “吉马良斯”
  • Chinese: “吉马良斯市”
  • Chinese: “基馬拉斯”
  • Croatian: “Guimarães”
  • Czech: “Guimaraes”
  • Czech: “Guimarães”
  • Danish: “Guimaraes”
  • Danish: “Guimarães”
  • Dutch: “Guimaraes (Portugal)”
  • Dutch: “Guimarães”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “جيمارايش”
  • Esperanto: “Guimarães”
  • Estonian: “Guimaraes”
  • Estonian: “Guimarães”
  • Finnish: “Guimaraes”
  • Finnish: “Guimarães”
  • French: “Guimaraes”
  • French: “Guimarães”
  • Galician: “Guimarães”
  • Georgian: “გიმარაინში”
  • German: “Guimaraes”
  • German: “Guimarães”
  • Greek: “Γκιμαράες”
  • Hebrew: “גימארייש”
  • Hebrew: “גימראייש”
  • Hindi: “गुइमारीस”
  • Hungarian: “Guimarães”
  • Indonesian: “Guimaraes”
  • Indonesian: “Guimarães”
  • Interlingue: “Guimarães”
  • Irish: “Guimarães”
  • Italian: “Guimaraes”
  • Italian: “Guimarães”
  • Japanese: “ギマラインス”
  • Japanese: “ギマラエス”
  • Japanese: “ギマランイス”
  • Japanese: “ギマランエス”
  • Japanese: “ギマリャンイス”
  • Korean: “구이마레에스”
  • Korean: “기마랑이스”
  • Latin: “Vimaranes”
  • Latin: “Vimaranum”
  • Latvian: “Gimaraeša”
  • Latvian: “Gimarainša”
  • Latvian: “Gimaraiša”
  • Latvian: “Guimaraes”
  • Latvian: “Guimarães”
  • Lithuanian: “Gimarainsas”
  • Lithuanian: “Gimarainšas”
  • Lombard: “Guimarães”
  • Luxembourgish: “Guimaraes”
  • Luxembourgish: “Guimarães”
  • Macedonian: “Гимараис”
  • Maltese: “Guimarães”
  • Marathi: “गिमार्येस”
  • Mazanderani: “گویمارائس”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Guimarães”
  • Mirandese: “Guimaráes”
  • Mirandese: “Guimarães”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Guimarães”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Guimarães”
  • Norwegian: “Guimarães”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Guimarães”
  • Ossetian: “Гимарайнш”
  • Persian: “گویمارائس”
  • Persian: “گیماریش”
  • Polish: “Guimaraes”
  • Polish: “Guimarães”
  • Portuguese: “Guimarães”
  • Portuguese: “Município de Guimarães”
  • Portuguese: “Vimaranes”
  • Romanian: “Guimaraes”
  • Romanian: “Guimarães”
  • Russian: “Гимарайеш”
  • Russian: “Гимарайнш”
  • Scots: “Guimarães”
  • Serbian: “Gimarais”
  • Serbian: “Guimaraes”
  • Serbian: “Guimarães”
  • Serbian: “Гимараеш”
  • Serbian: “Гимараис”
  • Serbian: “Гимарајеш”
  • Serbian: “Гимарајш”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Guimarães”
  • Silesian: “Guimarães”
  • Slovak: “Guimarães”
  • Slovenian: “Guimarães”
  • Spanish: “Guimaraes”
  • Spanish: “Guimarães”
  • Swedish: “Guimarães”
  • Tatar: “Гимарайнш”
  • Thai: “Guimarães”
  • Thai: “กีมาไรช์”
  • Turkish: “Guimarães”
  • Ukrainian: “Гімарайнш”
  • Urdu: “گیمارائس”
  • Vietnamese: “Guimaraes”
  • Vietnamese: “Guimarães”
  • Volapük: “Guimarães”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Guimarães”
  • Wu Chinese: “吉马朗伊什”
  • Wu Chinese: “吉马良斯”
  • “Guimarães”

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