Culture Guimarães

1 culture

1.1 gastronomy
1.2 traditions , festivities
1.3 museums, cultural spaces , art galleries
1.4 sports

culture

nossa senhora da consolação e dos santos passos church, guimarães, portugal

guimarães average size city booming cultural life. besides museums, monuments, cultural associations, art galeries , popular festivities, has since september 2005, important cultural space, vila flor cultural center. cultural center has 2 auditoria, exhibition center , concert-cafe. guimarães european capital of culture in 2012, maribor.

guimarães elected new york times 1 of 41 places go in 2011 , nyt called 1 of iberian peninsula s emerging cultural spots.

gastronomy

joanina fair in guimarães, old activities recreated such production of meat cake

the fact since beginning, guimarães had feminine monastery made influence on regional gastronomy, specially confectionery. tortas de guimarães (guimarães pies) , toucinho céu (normally translated bacon heaven) example. besides customary minho gastronomy, so-called meat cake made here, kind of bread in pizza shape served pig, sardines or other toppings.

traditions , festivities

festas gualterianas (gualteriana festival), in honor of saint gualter, take place since 1906 in first weekend of august. cortejo linho (linen parade) , batalha das flores (battle of flowers) part of festivities ended marcha gualteriana (gualteriana march).
nicolinas festivities of students of guimarães, celebrated in honor of saint nicholas. festivities start on 29 november , finish 7 december. composed of different celebrations; pinheiro attended. after restaurant dinner, participants parade streets of guimarães playing toques nicolinos tune on drums. latelly, has been suggested nicolinas should contender unesco intangible cultural heritage.
the santa luzia festivities in honor of honor saint lucy take place annually on 13 december, near chapel of santa luzia. selling of traditional cakes made of rye , sugar, called sardão , passarinha (these names have sexual connotations in portuguese). according tradition, boy should offer sardão , has phallic form, girl , if girl interested in dating boy, should reply passarinha .
the big romaria of são torcato 1 of biggest romarias in minho, takes place annually in july in village of são torcato.

museums, cultural spaces , art galleries

centro cultural vila flor

the city of guimarães has several cultural spaces of reference @ regional , national level. among several museums of city, alberto sampaio museum 1 stands out. founded in 1928, opened doors public in 1931; located in old site of canon collegiate of our lady of oliveira (cabido da colegiada de nossa senhora da oliveira in portuguese). contains rich collection of pieces 14th, 15th , 16th century, including 1 rare vest used king john i.

headquarters of martins sarmento society

the martins sarmento society (sociedade martins sarmento in portuguese) 1 of country oldest institutions dedicated study , preservation of archaeological artifacts. society owns 2 museums: archaeological museum of martins sarmento society, known prehistory , protohistory collections , numismatics , epigraphy collections; , castro culture museum dedicated castro culture.

there also: primitive modern arts museum, located in domus municipalis (the old city hall), contains collection of naïve art; museum of village of são torcato, dedicated region , relationship monastery , saint torcato (são torcato in portuguese); agriculture museum of fermentões, exhibits collections of traditional agricultural practices of region; , museum of são sebastião, inaugurated on 24 march 1984, contains sacred art.

other cultural venues include:

vila flor cultural center (centro cultural vila flor in portuguese) main cultural venue in guimarães. built in 2005, in recovery of old vila flor palace , surrounding area. has 2 auditoriums, concert-cafe , exhibition gallery. surrounding gardens of old palace redone , in 2006, received honorable mention in public exterior spaces category in national landscape architecture award.
são mamede - guimarães arts , shows center.
raul brandão municipal library has headquarters in city , has branches in pevidém, caldas das taipas , ronfe. offers mobile library services 42 parishes , services city schools , prison.
the art laboratory (laboratorio das artes in portuguese) founded in 2004 esap students. cultural space exhibitions, performances, music , art workshops.
alfredo pimenta national archive, founded in 1931, contains archives municipality of guimarães , braga district.

sports

guimarães has major sports club, vitória sport clube, football (soccer) team has been city s representative in primeira liga many years. vitória sc has basketball , volleyball squads competing in top divisions of sports.