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GnL Guimaraes Castle  1.0

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"Castelo de Guimarães (English: Guimarães Castle), located in the city of Guimarães, Portugal, was ordered to be built by Dona Mumadona Dias in the 10th century in order to defend its monastery from Muslim and Norman attacks.

Count Dom Henrique (to whom the County of Portugal had been granted) chose Guimarães to establish his court. The fortress, then over a century old, needed urgent renovation. The nobleman chose to destroy what remained from Mumadona's construction, while extending the area of the castle and adding two entrances. The castle became the official royal residence from 1139, when Portugal became independent from the Kingdom of León, until circa 1200.

The 10th-century Guimarães Castle, a national symbol, is known as the "Cradle of Portugal". The Battle of São Mamede took place close to it in 1128.

In 1836, a member of the Sociedade Patriótica Vimaranense (Patriotic Society of Guimarães) defended the demolition of the castle, and suggested the use of its stones to pave the streets of Guimarães, as the fortress had been used as a political prison during the reign of King Miguel. However, this was never accepted. 45 years later, on 19 March 1881, the Diário do Governo (Official Journal) listed the Guimarães Castle as the most unusual historic monument of the whole region of Minho.

In 1910, this Castle was declared a national monument. In 1937, the General Service for National Buildings and Monuments started its great restoration, which concluded with the inauguration of the castle's present symbolic status on 4 June 1940. "

(source: Wikipedia)

 

Plop Cost 55800

Bulldoze Cost 558

Wealth None

Pollution at center Air Water Garbage Radiation

2 1 13 0

Pollution radii Air Water Garbage Radiation

1 2 0 0

Flammability 10

MaxFireStage 4

Power Consumed 70

Water Consumed 0

Landmark Effect

40 20

Mayor Rating Effect

10 256

Budget Item: Purpose Landmark Effect

Budget Item: Cost 105

Lot Sixe: 7x5

 

Installation: Copy/extract the EBLT parent folder into your plugins. If you extracted the _Documents folder into your plugins, too, it's highly recommended to keep it, but move it out of the Plugins folder.

Un-Installing: To un-install the files, simply bulldoze every lot from this download in your cities and delete the files from the plugins folder afterwards.


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