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Guarda (other)
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Guarda may refer to: * Guarda, Portugal, city in Portugal * Guarda District, the district containing that city * Roman Catholic Diocese of Guarda, Portugal, the diocese containing that city * Guarda, Switzerland, municipality in Grisons, Switzerland ** Guarda railway station, a Rhaetian Railway station * Guarda Veneta, municipality in the province of Rovigo, region of Veneto, Italy * A Guarda, municipality in the province of Pontevedra, Galicia, Spain * Guarda-Mor, municipality in Minas Gerais, Brazil See also *Garda (other) *Guard (other) *Guardia (other) *Guardian (other) *La Guardia (other) La Guardia (Italian and Spanish, 'The Guard') or variants may refer to: Places * La Guardia, Bolivia * La Guardia, Catamarca, Argentina * La Guardia, Spain * La Guardia, Pontevedra, Spain, also known as A Guarda * La Guardia de Jaén, Jaén, Spa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Guarda, Portugal
Guarda () is a city and a municipality in the District of Guarda and the capital of the Beiras e Serra da Estrela sub-region in Centro Region, central Portugal. The population in 2021 was 40,126, in an area of with 31,224 inhabitants in the city proper in 2006. Founded by King Sancho I of Portugal, Sancho I in 1199, Guarda is the city located at the highest altitude in Portugal ( Height above sea level, a.s.l.) and one of the most important cities in the Portuguese region of Beira Alta Province, Beira Alta. Serra da Estrela, the highest mountain range in continental Portugal, is partially located in the district. The city is served by national and international trains on the Beira Alta and Baixa railway lines. The present mayor is Sérgio Costa, as an indepdent. The municipal holiday is November 27. Guarda is known as the "city of the five F's": ''Farta'', ''Forte'', ''Fria'', ''Fiel'' e ''Formosa'' - abundant (or totally satisfied), strong, cold, loyal and beautiful. The explanat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Guarda District
The district of Guarda ( pt, Distrito de Guarda ) is located in the Centro Region of Portugal, except Vila Nova de Foz Côa, which is in the Norte Region. The district capital and most populous city is Guarda. Municipalities The district contains 14 municipalities: * Aguiar da Beira * Almeida * Celorico da Beira * Figueira de Castelo Rodrigo * Fornos de Algodres * Gouveia * Guarda * Manteigas * Mêda * Pinhel * Sabugal * Seia * Trancoso * Vila Nova de Foz Côa Cities The following seat of municipalities have city (cidade)status: Gouveia, Guarda, Meda, Pinhel, Sabugal, Trancoso. Subregions Included within the District of Guarda Beira Interior Norte, Serra da Estrela, Douro and Dão-Lafões. Geography The main mountain ranges are the Serra da Estrela and Serra da Marofa. The main rivers are the Mondego, Côa, and Douro. Main Monuments/Castles * Guarda Sé/ Cathedral of Guarda. *Castles:(Castelos de) Pinhel, Sabugal, Sortelha, Marialva, Celorico, Rodrigo, Al ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roman Catholic Diocese Of Guarda, Portugal
The Roman Catholic Diocese of Guarda ( la, Dioecesis Aegitaniensis) is a diocese located in central eastern Portugal, a suffragan in the Ecclesiastical province of the Latin Patriarchate of Lisbon in southern Portugal. The present episcopal seat is in Guarda Cathedral ( pt, Catedral de Nossa Senhora da Consolação) in the city of Guarda. The diocese also contains the Church of São Luís in Pinhel, once the cathedral of the former diocese of Pinhel, absorbed into the diocese of Guarda in 1881. Statistics As per 2014, it pastorally served 253,300 Catholics (96.0% of 263,900 total) on 6,759 km² in 361 parishes and 3 missions with 140 priests (126 diocesan, 14 religious), 17 deacons, 133 lay religious (26 brothers, 107 sisters) and 5 seminarians. History * Possibly in 550, no later than 569, a Diocese of Egitânia (viz.), with see in present Idanha-a-Velha, was established under the Kingdom of the Suebi and maintained by the Visigothic Kingdom which absorbed it by 5 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Guarda, Switzerland
Guarda is a former municipality in Inn District in the Swiss canton of Graubünden. On 1 January 2015 the former municipalities of Ardez, Guarda, Tarasp, Ftan and Sent merged into the municipality of Scuol. Guarda was awarded the Wakker Prize for the preservation of its architectural heritage in 1975. History Guarda is first mentioned in 1160 as ''Warda''. Between 1939 and 1945 a major building renovation was carried on in Guarda which was conducted by the Swiss architect Iachen Ulrich Könz. Geography Guarda had an area, , of . Of this area, 35.5% is used for agricultural purposes, while 12.5% is forested. Of the rest of the land, 0.7% is settled (buildings or roads) and the remainder (51.4%) is non-productive (rivers, glaciers or mountains). The former municipality is located in the Sur Tasna sub-district of the Inn district on a terrace above the left bank of the Inn river. It consists of the linear village of Guarda above the valley and the settlement of Giarsun a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Guarda Railway Station
Guarda railway station (german: Bahnhof Guarda) is a railway station in the village of Guarda, within the municipality of Scuol, in the Swiss canton of Grisons. It is an intermediate stop on the gauge Bever–Scuol-Tarasp line of the Rhaetian Railway. Services The following services stop at Guarda: * RegioExpress: hourly service between Disentis/Mustér Disentis (German) or Mustér (, Romansh), with its official name Disentis/Mustér is a village and a municipality in the Surselva Region in the Swiss canton of Graubünden. The skiing and summer tourism resort high up in the Rhine valley is th ... and Scuol-Tarasp. * Regio: hourly service between and Scuol-Tarasp. References External links * * Railway stations in Graubünden Rhaetian Railway stations Railway stations in Switzerland opened in 1913 {{Switzerland-railstation-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Guarda Veneta
Guarda Veneta is a ''comune'' (municipality) in the Province of Rovigo in the Italian region of Veneto, located about southwest of Venice and about south of Rovigo. Guarda Veneta borders the following municipalities: Bosaro, Crespino, Polesella, Pontecchio Polesine Pontecchio Polesine is a ''comune'' (municipality) in the Province of Rovigo in the Italian region Veneto, located about southwest of Venice and about southeast of Rovigo. On 1 January 2019, it had a population of 2,191 and an area of .All demog ..., Ro. References External links * * Cities and towns in Veneto {{Veneto-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A Guarda
A Guarda is a municipality in the province of Pontevedra in the autonomous community of Galicia, in Spain. It is situated in the ''comarca'' of O Baixo Miño. Demography Colors= id:lightgrey value:gray(0.9) id:darkgrey value:gray(0.7) id:sfondo value:rgb(1,1,1) id:barra value:rgb(0.6,0.7,0.9) ImageSize = width:580 height:300 PlotArea = left: 60 bottom: 30 top: 20 right: 20 DateFormat = x.y Period = from:0 till:12000 TimeAxis = orientation:vertical AlignBars = late ScaleMajor = gridcolor:darkgrey increment:2000 start:0 ScaleMinor = gridcolor:lightgrey increment:1000 start:0 BackgroundColors = canvas:sfondo BarData= bar: 1877 text: 1877 bar: 1887 text: 1887 bar: 1900 text: 1900 bar: 1910 text: 1910 bar: 1920 text: 1920 bar: 1930 text: 1930 bar: 1940 text: 1940 bar: 1950 text: 1950 bar: 1960 text: 1960 bar: 1970 text: 1970 bar: 1980 text: 1980 bar: 1990 text: 1990 bar: 2000 text: 2000 bar: 2010 text: 2010 PlotData= color:barra wid ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Guarda-Mor
Guarda-Mor is a municipality in the north of the Brazilian state of Minas Gerais. Its population in 2020 was 6,569 inhabitants in a total area of 2,066 km2. It is a large producer of cattle and grains, especially soybeans. Guarda-Mor belongs to the Paracatu statistical microregion. The elevation of the municipal seat is 616 meters. It became a municipality in 1962. This municipality is located to the southwest of Paracatu on paved MG-188. The distance is 70 km. The distance to the capital, Belo Horizonte is 551 km. The climate is humid and sub-tropical. The average annual temperature is 22.6 C; the average annual maximum is 29.1 C; and the average annual minimum is 17,3 C. The average annual rainfall is 1438.7 mm, with rains falling between October and April. There are several rivers and streams: Rio Verde, Rio Claro, Rio Arrenegado, Rio Januário, Ribeirão Correio, Ribeirão Samambaia, Ribeirão São José, and Ribeirão Pilões. Neighboring municipalities are: Paracatu, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Garda (other)
Garda may refer to: * Police, known as Garda in Hiberno-English * Garda (security company), a security and protection company headquartered in Montreal, Canada * Garda Síochána, the national police of the Republic of Ireland * Garda National Surveillance Unit, the domestic intelligence agency of the Republic of Ireland * Garda (VR), a commune on the shores of the Italian Lake Garda in the province of Verona * Garda, Gotland, alternative name for Garde, a settlement on the Swedish island of Gotland * Garda Financiară, a former Romanian control and tax law-enforcement agency * Garda hitch, a knot used in rock climbing and rescue * Lake Garda, a lake in northern Italy See also * Gârda (other) * Garde (other) * Guarda (other) * Guardia (other) * Guard (other) Guard or guards may refer to: Professional occupations * Bodyguard, who protects an individual from personal assault * Crossing guard, who stops traffic so pedestrians can c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Guard (other)
Guard or guards may refer to: Professional occupations * Bodyguard, who protects an individual from personal assault * Crossing guard, who stops traffic so pedestrians can cross the street * Lifeguard, who rescues people from drowning * Prison guard, who supervises prisoners in a prison or jail * Security guard, who protects property, assets, or people * Conductor (rail) § Train guard, in the UK, Australia, New Zealand, and India Computing and telecommunications * Guard (computer science), in programming language, an expression that directs program execution * Guard (information security), a device for controlling communication between computer networks * Guard interval, intervals in transmission, used in telecommunications * Aircraft emergency frequency, commonly referred to as "guard" Governmental and military * Border guard, a state security agency * Coast guard, responsible for coastal defence and offshore rescue * Colour guard, a detachment of soldiers assigned to t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Guardia (other)
Guardia (Italian and Spanish, 'guard') may refer to: People *Guardia (surname), including a list of people with the name *Rafael Ángel Calderón Guardia (1900–1970), Costa Rican politician *Francisco Calderón Guardia (1906–1977), Costa Rican politician Places Argentina * Guardia Mitre, a municipality in Rio Negro Province Italy *Guardia Lombardi, a municipality in the Province of Avellino * Guardia Perticara, a municipality in the Province of Potenza *Guardia Piemontese, a municipality in the Province of Cosenza *Guardia Sanframondi, a municipality in the Province of Benevento *Villa Guardia, a municipality in the Province of Como Police and military forces *Cuerpo Guardia de Infantería, an Argentinian police force *Guardia Civil, the Spanish gendarmerie * Costa Rican Civil Guard, a former gendarmerie *Civil Guard (Peru), a gendarmery *Guardia de Asalto, the urban police force of Spain during the Second Republic *Guardia di Finanza, an Italian police force *Guardia di ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Guardian (other)
Guardian usually refers to: * Legal guardian, a person with the authority and duty to care for the interests of another * ''The Guardian'', a British daily newspaper (The) Guardian(s) may also refer to: Places * Guardian, West Virginia, United States, an unincorporated community in Webster County * Guardian Nunatak, a landform on Antarctica's Dufek Coast * Guardian Rock, an islet off the Antarctic Peninsula in Bigourdan Fjord * Guardian telephone exchange, Manchester, England * Wonder Mountain's Guardian, a roller coaster at Canada's Wonderland, Vaughan, Ontario People * GuardiaN (Ladislav Kovács; born 1991), Slovak professional video-game player * Angel Guardian (born 1998), Filipina actress and singer * Don Guardian (born 1953), mayor of Atlantic City, New Jersey, United States Arts, entertainment, and media Fictional entities * Guardian (comics), characters from various comics * Guardian (DC Comics), a DC Comics superhero * Guardian (''Highlander''), a charac ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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