Courthouse

This imposing granite building houses the Palace of Justice in Guimarães and occupies an entire city block between Cónego Gaspar Estaço and Alberto Sampaio streets, although the main entrance faces Countess Mumadona square. The building is 2-storey, linear and symmetrical, with a protruding central body on the front, where 3 access doors precede a staircase and are flanked by columns. On both sides of the stairs are two huge female figures, holding a book (representing the law) and a sword (symbolizing the sentence). The square with the courthouse is very wide, in the center is the Monument to