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"Aqui nasceu Portugal"

No século X a Condessa Mumadona Dias, após ter ficado viúva, manda construir na sua herdade de Vimaranes - hoje Guimarães - um Mosteiro. Os constantes ataques por parte dos mouros e normandos leva à necessidade de construir uma fortaleza para guarda e defesa dos monges e da comunidade cristã que viviam em seu redor. Surge assim o primitivo Castelo de Guimarães. No século XII, com a formação do Condado Portucalense, vêm viver para Guimarães o Conde D.Henrique e D.Teresa que mandam realizar grandes obras no Castelo de forma a ampliá-lo e torná-lo mais forte. Diz a tradição que teria sido no interior do Castelo que os condes fixaram residência e provavelmente aí teria nascido D.Afonso Henriques. Entre os séculos XIII e XV vários reis irão contribuir com obras de melhoramento e restauro do Castelo. Ligado a façanhas heróicas do período da fundação da nacionalidade como a Batalha de S.Mamede em 1128, razão porque é conhecido por Castelo da Fundação ou de S. Mamede, serviu ainda ao longo da sua história de palco a vários conflitos reais. Perdida que foi a sua função defensiva, o Castelo entra num processo de abandono e degradação progressiva até ao século XX, altura em que é declarado Monumento Nacional e são efectuadas obras de restauro. <a href="http://www.guimaraesturismo.com/home_pt/turismo/patrimonio/monumentos_e_locais_de_interesse/" rel="nofollow">www.guimaraesturismo.com/home_pt/turismo/patrimonio/monum...</a>

The Guimarães Castle, located in the city of Guimarães, Portugal, was ordered to be built by Dona Mumadona Dias in the 10th century in order to defend its monastery from Muslim and Norman attacks.

Count Dom Henrique (to whom the County of Portugal had been granted) chose Guimarães to establish his court. The fortress, then over a century old, needed urgent renovation. The nobleman chose to destroy what remained from Mumadona's construction, while extending the area of the castle and adding two entrances. The castle continued to be the official royal residence through much of the 11th and 12th centuries.

In 1836, a member of the Sociedade Patriótica Vimaranense (Patriotic Society of Guimarães) defended the demolition of the Castle, and suggested the use of its stones to pave the streets of Guimarães, as the fortress had been used as a political prison during the reign of King Michael. However, this was never accepted. 45 years later, on March 19, 1881, the Diário do Governo (Official Journal) listed the Guimarães Castle as the most unusual historic monument of the whole region of Minho.

In 1910 this Castle was declared a national monument. In 1937, the General Service for National Buildings and Monuments started its great restoration, which concluded with the inauguration of the castle's present symbolic status on June 4, 1940. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guimar%c3%a3es_Castle" rel="nofollow">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guimar%c3%a3es_Castle</a>
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Author Vitor Oliveira from Torres Vedras, PORTUGAL
Camera location41° 26′ 51.97″ N, 8° 17′ 26.85″ W Kartographer map based on OpenStreetMap.View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMapinfo

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