Guimarães and the Couros Zone

The story behind the place

Guimarães preserves buildings shaped by Portuguese materials and construction traditions from the fifteenth to nineteenth centuries. The wider property includes the Couros Zone, where former tanneries, workers' houses and urban spaces record leather production. Looking across these areas connects monumental architecture with the working districts that also shaped the town.

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