Guimarães
Guimarães, a city of over 158 thousand,1 is centered in hills in the drainage area of the Ave River, in the Ave Intermunicipal Community of Portugal. Its historic center is a UNESCO World Heritage Site, honored for the building techniques it exported to the Portuguese colonies. The older technique, taipo de rodízio uses half-timbers; the later one, taipo de fasquio, all timber. The oldest buildings, from 950 to 1498, are of stone.2 The tallest building is the Hotel Fundador (183 feet, 2005).3
External references
Oliveira Plaza, Guimarães, Ave Intermunicipal Community, Portugal
Footnotes
1. 2011 figure from the side bar of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guimar%C3%A3es, accessed December 28-30, 2015.
2. UNESCO, World Heritage Sites (Firefly Books, 2010).
3. emporis.com, accessed April 23, 2016.
