Portugal · Restored
Castle of Guimarães
The Castle of Guimarães is the principal medieval fortress in the municipality of Guimarães in northern Portugal, originally founded in the 10th century and substantially remodelled in the late 13th century. It occupies a small granite hill and is closely associated with the early formation of the Portuguese state. The surviving silhouette — curtain walls, multiple rectangular towers and a central keep — reflects its late Romanesque to early Gothic military architecture.
Its prime
1300
Today
Restored
As it stood in 1300
The shape it held in its prime.
A compact, shield‑shaped fortress of pale-grey granite ashlars forming a pentagram plan with a reduced central yard; eight rectangular flanking towers rise from the curtain walls and a taller square keep dominates the centre. All battlements are crenellated with sharply pointed merlons; walls are built of large coursed blocks with narrow vertical arrow-slits. The castle sits on a rounded granite knoll with a grassy slope and a small wooded park at its base, with a low entrance approached by worn stone steps.
Step inside
8 places to explore in 1300.
The record describes 8 distinct spots at Castle of Guimarães — including 3 interiors: reduced central courtyard (military square), ground chamber inside a rectangular tower, medieval well in the interior. Create your own photoreal reconstruction and walk through every one — more scenes means more photos, more angles and more rooms of the immersive experience.
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See Castle of Guimarães with the fires lit.
The artist rebuilds it as it stood in 1300 — a photoreal walk that belongs to you alone. Pay with coins, no subscription needed.
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