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Toural

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Largo do Toural panoramio (7)
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The Toural Square (Portuguese: Largo do Toural), commonly referred as just Toural, is the most important square and place of gathering on the Portuguese city of Guimarães. It began in the 17th century as a place to sell bulls (Touro in Portuguese), oxen and other goods. Unlike the rest of the city, pigeons aren’t commonly found in the Toural, but swallows are.

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Toural
Largo do Toural, Guimarães

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N 41.44191 ° E -8.29562 °
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Largo do Toural
4810-442 Guimarães (Oliveira, São Paio e São Sebastião)
Portugal
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Santa Maria Street
Santa Maria Street

The Santa Maria Street (Portuguese: Rua de Santa Maria) is a street of medieval origin in the historic centre of Guimarães, being for many centuries the most important street in Guimarães and home to some of its elite. The street currently connects the Oliveira and the São Paio Square to the Carmo Square. It is already referred to by the name “Rua de Santa Maria” in documents that date to the 12th century, although its upper section was given the old name of Rua da Infesta (Infesta Street).Along its route there are various notable architectural and cultural testimonies of the past: Convent of Santa Clara, a 16th century boroque style convent now used as the câmara municipal of Guimarães. Raul Brandão Library, built in 1834, is dedicated to the renowned figure Raul Brandão and currently serves as the municipal library of Guimarães. Casa do Arco, it was built in the end of the 15th century, Manuel I once slept here after coming from a trip to Santiago de Compostela. Other historical figures like king Miguel I the painter Auguste Roquemont also spent some nights here with the last one living here in the 1830s. House of the Peixotos, built in the 1700s, it was a noble family’s house. House of the Valadares de Carvalho, one of the oldest buildings that are still standing on that street, it was built in the 15th century, it was a noble family’s house. House of Senhora Aninhas, the house where the “mother and protector of the students of Guimarães” lived, and one of the 5 locations where the Pregão is declaimed. The house where Mário de Vasconcelos Cardoso was born.