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Guimaraes is a Portuguese town located in Braga district, North and sub-region of Ave (one of the subregions most industrialized in the countrie), with a population of 52 181 inhabitants spread over an urban area of 23.5 square kilometers, in 20 parishes and with a population of 2 223.9 sq \ km ². It is the seat of a municipality with 242.85 kilometers ² and 162 636 inhabitants (2008), subdivided into 69 parishes, with the majority of the population live in the city and its peripheral zone. It is bordered to the north by the municipality of Póvoa de Lanhoso, on the east by Fafe south by Felgueiras, Vizela and Santo Tirso, west by Vila Nova de Famalicão and west by Braga.
It is a historic city with a crucial role in the formation of Portugal, which already has more than a millennium since its formation, when it was designated as Vimaranes
Guimaraes is one of the most important historical cities of the country, its historical center declared a Heritage Site, making it definitely one of the major tourist centers of the region. Its streets and monuments breathe history and charm the visitors.
The current Guimarães managed to reconcile, the best, the story and thereby maintaining the heritage with the dynamism and entrepreneurship that characterize the modern cities.
Guimaraes is often called the "Cradle City", because there has been established the administrative center of the County of Portugal by D. Henrique and his son D. Afonso Henriques could have been born in this city and ultimately the historical importance that the Battle of São Mamede, fought outside the city on 24 June 1128, took to the formation of nationality. However, the needs of the conquer and the protection of territories to the south took this same center to Coimbra in 1129.
The "Vimaranenses" are proudly addressed as "Conquerors", the fruit of this historical legacy of conquest initiated precisely in Guimaraes.
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