Mangualde (European Portuguese pronunciation: [mɐ̃ˈɡwaldɨ] ⓘ) is a municipality in the subregion of Dão-Lafões (historical Beira Interior), central region of Portugal.

[2] The region of Mangualde has been a crossroads of many peoples: Viriathus's warriors, transhumance shepherds, Romans, Moors and Christian conquerors, including soldiers from Castile or France, or even pilgrims.

[3] Its location, on the frontier with the Serra da Estrela and marginalized by its geography to north, was nonetheless a channel of pre-historic cultures associated with the dolmens that are found through the region.

Romanization of these lands resulted in a diffusion and assimilation of cultural structures, political hierarchies, social institutions, the economy and religious services.

[3] By 1102, Count Henrique and Countess Theresa, before the independence of Portugal, issued a foral to the lands of Zurara, between the Dão and Mondego Rivers.

After the 17th century, with the creation of the Misericórdia by Philip II, the institution of "outside" judges by King John IV (1655), Mangualde experienced a period of great expansion.

[3] Administratively, the municipality is divided into 12 civil parishes (freguesias):[4] Stellantis has a plant in Mangualde founded in 1962 by Citroën which began operations in 1964.