Guide A guide is a person who leads travelers, sportspeople, or tourists through unknown or unfamiliar locations. The term can also be applied to a person who leads others to more abstract goals such as knowledge or wisdom. Travel and recreation Exp ...

is a Portuguese village at

Torre de Dona Chama Torre de Dona Chama is a Portuguese civil parish in the Mirandela Municipality and district of Bragança, in the Trás-os-Montes region of northern Portugal. The population in 2011 was 1,105, in an area of 27.68 km². History Settled prior ...

, in the

Mirandela Mirandela (), officially the City of Mirandela (), is a city and a municipality in northeastern Portugal. The city itself is contained by the Mirandela parish, which had a population of 11,397. The population of the municipality in 2021 was 21,38 ...

municipality, in the district of

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. It is located southwest of the center of Torre de Dona Chama and north of Mirandela. The village is located to the east of the Tuela river, a tributary of the

Tua River Tua () is a river in northeastern Portugal, flowing by the border of Vila Real District and Bragança District. It is a tributary of the Douro River. The biggest and most important city it flows through is Mirandela. The Tua line was a narrow ...

. The

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206 passes east of the village, connecting it to Bragança and Mirandela. At the entrance to the village, there is the Church of Guide (Igreja de Guide), a Property of Public Interest (IIP). The church is of

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style and it was built in the 18th century. It has not received significant changes to its original design and some restoration work has been carried out. The most recent intervention was carried out in 2015, under a project to improve the cultural patrimony in the Tua River valley, in the context of a new hydroelectric dam.

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Villages in Portugal Populated places in Bragança District {{Bragança-geo-stub