Historic Centre of Guimarães and Couros Zone
A World Heritage Site in Portugal, inscribed in 2001 as a Cultural Site. This page summarises the key facts: inscription year, category and location.
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Key facts
- Country
- Portugal
- Region
- Europe and North America
- Inscribed
- 2001
- Category
- Cultural Site
- Criteria
- (ii)(iii)(iv)
- Property area
- approx. 38.2 ha
- Component parts
- 1
- Coordinates
- 41.4430, -8.2928
- UNESCO ID
- 1031
Source: factual data from UNESCO DataHub (whc001 / CC BY-SA 4.0). This site uses only factual information such as names, countries, inscription years and categories. No official UNESCO/WHC descriptions, photographs or logos are used.
Names in other languages
- French
- Centre historique de Guimarães et zone du Couros
- Spanish
- Centro Histórico de Guimarães y Zona de Couros
- Chinese
- 吉马良斯历史中心与库鲁斯区拓界
Other World Heritage Sites in Portugal
- Alto Douro Wine Region (2001)
- Central Zone of the Town of Angra do Heroismo in the Azores (1983)
- Convent of Christ in Tomar (1983)
- Cultural Landscape of Sintra (1995)
- Garrison Border Town of Elvas and its Fortifications (2012)
- Historic Centre of Évora (1986)
- Historic Centre of Oporto, Luiz I Bridge and Monastery of Serra do Pilar (1996)
- Landscape of the Pico Island Vineyard Culture (2004)
- Laurisilva of Madeira (1999)
- Monastery of Alcobaça (1989)
- Monastery of Batalha (1983)
- Monastery of the Hieronymites and Tower of Belém in Lisbon (1983)
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