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Historic Centre of the Guard (**)

January 4, 2011 by Castile
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"And it is full Penalva, O dark city, dark winter and old age."
Polaris of Virgil Ferreira
Over time the city of Guarda has been overlooked in its beauty: I do not want here escalpelizar precisely the reason for the error, but the unhappiness I will try to convince you otherwise, F is the ugly to be replaced by F of fair .
We know it is a city of beauty peculiar, because in addition to evidence of the Cathedral Guard (**), there are notes of various kinds to delight those who enjoy art and history, but that escapes the unsuspecting eyes.
A little history of the City Guard
Founding of the city we know very little. One is that the area of ​​the borough of Old Castles have been occupied during the Iron Age, the Roman and Visigothic period. The Old Castles seem to fit in with the important Roman remains of Povoa do Mileu (*).
In the area of ​​the historic center, prior to the charter given by D. Sancho I to guard, as there should be a village. The location may have been founded by a Milelmius Dominus, a father of D. Stephen, in 1181, endowed the monastery church of Charity, near Ciudad Rodrigo.
It is from the charter granted in 1199 that the Guard becomes a town of some importance, being important center of the whole region. Should this real privilege to Don Sancho I (as he becomes the nickname of Settler) which then transfers to the diocese egitanense (which corresponds to the current to the historic village of Idanha Velha (**).
Dating from the thirteenth century the start of construction of the castle and defensive about the Guard. The design of the wall, irregular plant with oblong, conformed to the topography, running until the nineteenth century as the boundary north, west and partly south of the city. The medieval axes, Cardus and the manner of Roman decumanos of geomancy (though not to date found no trace in the Roman historical center), were structured and were constituted by the Right Road (current street Francis Street Steps and Don Miguel de Aragon ), linking the ports extreme Covilhã Port or Port to Port of New Curros (now nonexistent), and its perpendicular, joining the Port d'El Rei, the Port of San Vicente.

guarda 300x195 Centro Histórico da Guarda (**) The centrality of the great medieval town was located around the Cathedral (**) (started in the last decade of the fourteenth century and ends nearly two centuries later) with the magnificent Old Town Square or Plaza de Camões (*), St. Vincent ( including the best-preserved Jewish quarter of Portugal, despite its apparent ruin, focused on Amparo Street; and Our Lady of Victory Church, now vanished. These three cores each had their respective temple. During the nineteenth century (for various reasons not worth dissecting now) were demolished the two doors of the castle and about 40% of some medieval.
7 reasons to like the Historic Center of the Guard:
It has one of the finest and best preserved medieval centers Portuguese, partly walled, with three entries preserved (especially in the Tower and triple door Blacksmith). It also has a list of civil buildings with Renaissance and Mannerist notes with emphasis on the Renaissance-Manueline window, Rua Francisco Passos.
Have a magnificent old Jewish quarter, as a whole are 89 buildings with religious magic marks the threshold of the dilapidated homes of centuries XIV, XV, XVI and XVII.

It has a grand cathedral (**) that incorporates Gothic, Manueline, Renaissance and Mannerist.
The sobriety of the granite has linked up well with thrift castrating the Council of Trent, with the ultimate example of the former episcopal palace and seminary (now the Regional Museum Guard) or the beautiful Palace of Alarcões.
It has some baroque buildings with quality, especially the Mercy Church, the Church of St. Vincent and the spectacular fountain of St. Andrew (*).
Associate your name to the extraordinary man who was Dr. Sousa Martins, who encouraged the building of the sanatorium and its leafy park that bears his name.
And as recently as 2005, saw the excellent opening Teatro Municipal Guard egitanense by architect Carlos Veloso.
The Guard is metropolis of unique beauty, with a myriad of aesthetic details, carved in hard granite brown, which darken the mystery of its streets - shade and moisture, and with its open views for being in the terminal spur of the Serra da Estrela - light and sun. Regeneremos Guard in our hearts-passeemos.

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