# Guarda District

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The **District of Guarda** (Portuguese: *Distrito de Guarda* pt-PT) is located in the [Centro Region](/source/Centro,_Portugal) of [Portugal](/source/Portugal), except [Vila Nova de Foz Côa](/source/Vila_Nova_de_Foz_C%C3%B4a), which is in the [Norte Region](/source/Norte,_Portugal). The district capital and most populous city is [Guarda](/source/Guarda,_Portugal). It borders [Castile and León](/source/Castile_and_Le%C3%B3n), [Spain](/source/Spain).

## Municipalities

The district contains 14 municipalities:

- [Aguiar da Beira](/source/Aguiar_da_Beira)
- [Almeida](/source/Almeida,_Portugal)
- [Celorico da Beira](/source/Celorico_da_Beira)
- [Figueira de Castelo Rodrigo](/source/Figueira_de_Castelo_Rodrigo)
- [Fornos de Algodres](/source/Fornos_de_Algodres)
- [Gouveia](/source/Gouveia_Municipality,_Portugal)
- [Guarda](/source/Guarda,_Portugal)
- [Manteigas](/source/Manteigas)
- [Mêda](/source/M%C3%AAda)
- [Pinhel](/source/Pinhel)
- [Sabugal](/source/Sabugal)
- [Seia](/source/Seia)
- [Trancoso](/source/Trancoso,_Portugal)
- [Vila Nova de Foz Côa](/source/Vila_Nova_de_Foz_C%C3%B4a)

## 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](/source/Beira_Interior_Norte_Subregion), [Serra da Estrela](/source/Serra_da_Estrela_Subregion), [Douro](/source/Douro_Subregion) and [Dão-Lafões](/source/D%C3%A3o-Laf%C3%B5es_Subregion).

## Geography

The main mountain ranges are the [Serra da Estrela](/source/Serra_da_Estrela) and [Serra da Marofa](/source/Serra_da_Marofa). The main rivers are the [Mondego](/source/Mondego_River), [Côa](/source/C%C3%B4a_River), and [Douro](/source/Douro_River).

## Main Monuments/Castles

- [Guarda Sé](/source/Castelo_da_Guarda)/ [Cathedral of Guarda](/source/Cathedral_of_Guarda).
- Castles:(Castelos de) Pinhel, Sabugal, Sortelha, Marialva, Celorico, Rodrigo, Almeida, Trancoso.
- Pelourinhos de [Pinhel](/source/Pinhel) and [Alverca da Beira](/source/Alverca_da_Beira).

## Summary of votes and seats won 1976-2022

Main article: [Guarda constituency](/source/Guarda_(Assembly_of_the_Republic_constituency))

|- class="unsortable" !rowspan=2|Parties!!%!!S!!%!!S!!%!!S!!%!!S!!%!!S!!%!!S!!%!!S!!%!!S!!%!!S!!%!!S!!%!!S!!%!!S!!%!!S!!%!!S!!%!!S!!%!!S |- class="unsortable" align="center" !colspan=2 | 1976 !colspan=2 | 1979 !colspan=2 | 1980 !colspan=2 | 1983 !colspan=2 | 1985 !colspan=2 | 1987 !colspan=2 | 1991 !colspan=2 | 1995 !colspan=2 | 1999 !colspan=2 | 2002 !colspan=2 | 2005 !colspan=2 | 2009 !colspan=2 | 2011 !colspan=2 | 2015 !colspan=2 | 2019 !colspan=2 | 2022 |- | align="left"| [PS](/source/Socialist_Party_(Portugal)) || 25.2 || 2 || 26.3 || 1 ||26.3 || 1 || style="background:#FF66FF;"|**33.5** || style="background:#FF66FF;"|**2** || 23.3 || 2 || 21.8 || 1 || 26.8 || 1 || style="background:#FF66FF;"|**43.7** || style="background:#FF66FF;"|**2** || style="background:#FF66FF;"|**43.4** || style="background:#FF66FF;"|**2** || 34.7 || 2 || style="background:#FF66FF;"|**46.8** || style="background:#FF66FF;"|**2** || style="background:#FF66FF;"|**36.0** || style="background:#FF66FF;"|**2** || 28.3 || 1 || 33.8 || 2 || style="background:#FF66FF;"|**37.6** || style="background:#FF66FF;"|**2** || style="background:#FF66FF;"|**45.1** || style="background:#FF66FF;"|**2** |- | align="left"| [PSD](/source/Social_Democratic_Party_(Portugal)) || 25.7 || 2 || align=center colspan=4 rowspan=2|*In [AD](/source/Democratic_Alliance_(Portugal,_1979))* || 31.5 || 2 || style="background:#FF9900;"|**33.6** || style="background:#FF9900;"|**2** || style="background:#FF9900;"|**60.0** || style="background:#FF9900;"|**4** || style="background:#FF9900;"|**58.6** || style="background:#FF9900;"|**3** || 39.9 || 2 || 39.2|| 2 || style="background:#FF9900;"|**48.5** || style="background:#FF9900;"|**2** || 34.7 || 2 || 35.6 || 2 || style="background:#FF9900;"|**46.3** || style="background:#FF9900;"|**3** || align=center colspan=2 rowspan=2|*In [PàF](/source/Portugal_Ahead)* || 34.3 || 1 || 33.5 || 1 |- | align="left"| [CDS-PP](/source/CDS_%E2%80%93_People's_Party) || style="background:#0093DD;"|**32.1** || style="background:#0093DD;"|**2** || 23.8 || 1 || 19.5 || 1 || 6.6 || || 5.9 || || 9.9 || || 9.8 || || 9.6 || || 7.0 || || 11.2 || || 11.2 || || 5.0 || || 2.2 || |- | align="left"| [AD](/source/Democratic_Alliance_(Portugal,_1979)) || colspan=2| || style="background:#00FFFF;"|**60.6** || style="background:#00FFFF;"|**4** || style="background:#00FFFF;"|**60.6** || style="background:#00FFFF;"|**4** || colspan=26| |- | align="left"| [PàF](/source/Portugal_Ahead) || colspan=26| || style="background:#00AAAA;"|**45.6** || style="background:#00AAAA;"|**2** || colspan=4| |- ! Total seats || colspan=2|6 || colspan=10|5 || colspan=16|4 || colspan=4|3 |- ! colspan=33|Source: [Comissão Nacional de Eleições](https://www.cne.pt/content/eleicoes-referendos) |}

## See also

- [Barregão](/source/Barreg%C3%A3o), a village located in the district of Guarda

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