Why choose to go for a walk with "Histórias Com Passadas"? What's different about us? - Trademark registered with Turismo de Portugal since 2022; - Certified training as a guide for walking tours; - First company in the city of Guarda to promote "Free Walking Tours"; - We believe that "we never really know a place if we don't walk through it"; - We like to share and make known the city that welcomed us more than 20 years ago: Guarda, the highest city in Portugal, with more than 800 years of history. What do we guarantee? - Good mood; - Good times; - Good Stories.
This is a different look at the city; the people who shaped her and her works that they left for posterity - The timeless Giants of the Guarda.
Travel back in time, to the twelfth century, with D. Sancho I, the colonist, and unravel his main concerns.
In the fourteenth century, get to know the magnificent Cathedral of Guarda and be dazzled by the interior and the view from the terraces.
The journey continues, discover the ancient streets by giant strides, cross the walls and centuries, until you return to the present and learn why the Rooster is judged and burned at the stake every year.
Meet the other Giants who helped fill the pages of this magnificent city's stories:
- Rui de Pina; Friar Pedro do Guará; Lopo de Carvalho e Sousa Martins; José Maria Pedrosa.
What is included/ excluded in the activity:
- "Histórias Com Passadas" guide during the walking route.
- RNAAT License No. 506/2022 from Turismo de Portugal and recognized by ICNF as nature tourism.
- Personal accident and liability insurance.
- Payment of the entrance ticket to the Cathedral (2,50 €)
- Meals or drinks during the walk, all consumption in any establishments eventually visited during the activity.
- Transport to the starting point of the walk.
- Anything that is not declared as included.
Additional useful information
I'll be on the access stairs to the Se Cathedral, with an orange umbrella and the Historias Com Passadas logo ( https://maps.app.goo.gl/uvRsujDntpo3JziB7 )
One of the most interesting national monuments, which we will visit being able to observe its interior, exterior and climb to the terrace.
One of the old gates of the city of Guarda, in stone and classified as a National Monument.
One of the old entrances to the castle of Guarda, in stone classified as a National Monument
The Blacksmith Tower is one of the best preserved defensive structures of the old walls that defended the city of Guarda, and so it is currently classified as a National Monument.
Old building of the convent of S. Francisco da Guarda.
Space of excellence of dissemination and promotion of the main cultural events in the city of Guarda
Free tours do not have a set price, instead, each person gives the guru at the end of the tour the amount that he or she considers appropriate (these usually range from €10 to $50 depending on satisfaction with the tour).
