Guarda

Demographic figures from INE Portugal. Overview below cites Wikipedia and may reference a different year.

Overview

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 "Guarda", a hymn tune by Sydney Watson

Geography

Coordinates & boundaries from the US Census TIGER/Line shapefiles.

Notable people from here

Álvaro de Castro

Prime Minister of Portugal (1878-1928)

E

Emanuel Couto

Portuguese tennis player

José de Castro

Portuguese politician (1868-1929)

Inês Monteiro

Portuguese athlete

R

Rui de Pina

Portuguese chronicler (1440–1522)

J

João Monteiro

Portuguese table tennis player

Carolina Beatriz Ângelo

Portuguese feminist and suffragist

C

Carmen Yazalde

Portuguese-Argentine actress

E

Estevan da Guarda

A

Abílio Fernandes

botanist (1906-1994)

Rodrigo Méndez Silva

Spanish academic

J

José Urbano

Portuguese athletics competitor (born 1966)

Adriano Vasco Rodrigues

Portuguese writer and historian

B

Basílio Pina de Oliveira Seguro

Portuguese soldier and politician

B

Beatriz de Meneses, 2nd Countess of Loulé

Portuguese noblewoman

Fausto Bordalo Dias

Portuguese recording artist; singer, songwriter

People born within ~10 km, from Wikidata (CC0). Click any name for their Wikipedia article.

Nearby places in Guarda

• Alfarazes
  0.9 mi away
• Galegos
  1.8 mi away
• Faia
  2.7 mi away
• Maçainhas
  2.7 mi away
• Pêro Soares
  3.3 mi away
• Vale de Estrela
  3.4 mi away
• Panoias de Cima
  3.4 mi away
• Aldeia do Bispo
  3.5 mi away · pop. 220
• João Bragal de Cima
  3.7 mi away
• Mizarela
  3.9 mi away
• João Bragal de Baixo
  3.9 mi away
• Arrifana
  3.9 mi away

Browse all places in Guarda →

Geography & sun

Elevation, sunrise/sunset and daylight from Open-Meteo. Solar climatology from NASA POWER.

Public attention

Pageview totals from the Wikimedia Pageviews API.

Books about Guarda

Mooncop

Tom Gauld · 2016

The Folding Star

Alan Hollinghurst · 1994

Guarda, guarda la mostarda!!

Giovanni Colonna di Cesarò · 1923

Para onde vão os guarda-chuvas

Afonso Cruz · 2013

The Voyeur

Alberto Moravia · 1986

Contos da Selecao

Kiera Cass · 2014

The angelspeake book of prayer and healing

Barbara Mark · 1997

The Body Keeps the Score

Bessel van der Kolk · 2014

Search results from Open Library.

Recently spotted species

Pale Cross Orbweaver

Araneus pallidus

Seen 2026-09-21

Spotted Flycatcher

Muscicapa striata

Seen 2026-09-20

European Pond Turtle

Emys orbicularis

Seen 2026-09-20

Black Stork

Ciconia nigra

Seen 2026-09-20

Podarcis lusitanicus

Podarcis lusitanicus

Seen 2026-09-12

Rock Bunting

Emberiza cia

Seen 2026-09-09

European Pied Flycatcher

Ficedula hypoleuca

Seen 2026-09-09

Booted Eagle

Hieraaetus pennatus

Seen 2026-09-09

Great Tit

Parus major

Seen 2026-09-09

Research-grade observations from iNaturalist (within ~15 mi).