The Pools of Merelim, located in the parish of São Pedro de Merelim, have an extensive grassy area with some large trees that provide pleasant shadows on the hottest days. There is also a volleyball court.
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Friday, June 29, 2018
Visit the João Soares Vieira Stadium - São Pedro de Merelim
The João Soares Vieira Stadium, located in the parish of São Pedro de Merelim, is where the Merelinense Futebol Clube football team plays.
Visit the Chapel of São Brás - São Pedro de Merelim
The Chapel of São Brás, located in the parish of São Pedro de Merelim, was built in 1602. Later, rebuilt in 1868. And in 1981 it was partially restored.
Visit the Aerodrome of Braga - São Pedro de Merelim
The Aerodrome of Braga, located in the parish of São Pedro de Merelim, emerged through progressive transformations of former fields of crops and bouças and was designated as "Field of Aviation", name by which the current Aerodrome is still recognized.
This airfield was inaugurated the 22 of June of 1929 with the landing of a military aircraft airplane "Junker-F13", piloted by the captain Amado of the Cunha.
Visit the East River - São Pedro de Este
The East River crosses the Parish of São Pedro de Este and leaves in its route magnificent landscapes.
Thursday, June 28, 2018
Visit the Penedo das Letras - São Pedro da Oliveira
Penedo das Letras, located in the parish of São Pedro da Oliveira, has inspired legends throughout history. It is said that King Miguel took refuge there from the conflicts with his mother. But, the people always claimed that the king came to the Penedo of the letters to court a girl of the land.
Beside the boulder there is another one with the following inscription: "On December 6, 1832, he came to this place and ascended to these stones His Majesty Lord Michael I"
Visit the Merelim River Beach - São Pedro de Merelim
The River Merelim Beach, located in the parish of São Paio de Merelim, is bathed by the waters of the Cávado River, and is very close to the Prado Bridge.
Visit the Prado Bridge - São Paio de Merelim
The Prado Bridge is located on the River Cávado, between the parishes of São Paio de Merelim, and the county of Vila Verde.
It was built in 1617, under the reign of Philip I of Portugal, with the traces of the architect António de Castro and is classified as a National Monument since 1910.
Visit the Gabriel Nunes Machado Football Field - São Paio de Merelim
The Gabriel Nunes Machado Football Field, located in the parish of São Paio de Merelim is used by the São Paio Merelim Association, and by the young strata of Bragalona and EAS Braga.
Wednesday, June 27, 2018
Visit the Serra dos Picos - São Mamede de Este
The Serra dos Picos, located in the parish of São Mamede de Este, is an elevation that rises to 566 meters of altitude. This mountain is part of the mountainous system of Peneda-Gerês
Visit the East River Spring - São Mamede de Este
The Rio East Spring is located in the Parish of São Mamede de Este between the Serra do Carvalho and Serra dos Picos.
Visit the Mother Church of São Mamede de Este
The Mother Church of São Mamede de Este is from the late nineteenth century and was enlarged during the first half of the twentieth century. This church counts in addition to the carving, with 4 panels of tiles, with motives of devotion to the Holy Eucharist.
To visit the Cruise of São Mamede de Este
The Cruzeiro de São Mamede de This date from the nineteenth century
Visit the House of the Cachada - São Mamede de Este
Casa da Cachada, located in the parish of São Mamede de Este, is a rural tourism house, surrounded by a beautiful farmhouse.
Visit the Chapel of St. Simon - São Mamede de Este
The chapel of São Simão, located in the parish of São Mamede de Este, was once Parish Church, dating from the thirteenth century and restored at the end of the twentieth century.
Tuesday, June 26, 2018
Visit the Conciliar Seminary of São Pedro and São Paulo - São Lázaro (Braga)
The Conciliar Seminary of St. Peter and St. Paul, located in the Parish of St. Lazarus, is an institution of religious formation for future priests, in charge of the Archdiocese of Braga.
It is housed in the building formerly designated by the College of St. Paul (belonging to the Society of Jesus until its expulsion), and of which the Church of St. Paul is an integral part. The building also houses the Pio XII Museum in the east wing.
Visit the Lake of the Park of São João da Ponte - São Lázaro (Braga)
The Lake of the Park of St. John of the Bridge, located in the Parish of St. Lazarus, is in the center of this park which is divided into four parts, the outside, the inner part, the Sport Bridge Complex and the Bridge Camping Park. The park is limited to the North by the East River and the Avenue Dr Francisco Pires Gonçalves, to the East and South by the Mount of Picoto and the Avenue of the Stadium, to the West by the Park of Exhibitions of Braga and East River.
The Park was born out of the expropriation in 1911 of Quinta da Mitra, the former palace of the archbishops of Braga.
The outer part of the park, the oldest one, grew around the Chapel of St. John. It is a wooded area with gardens and lakes, has a bandstand, a cruise, a children's park, an open-air auditorium and a monument evocative to 25 April, which celebrates freedom and democracy.
In times past, when the water of the East River was clear, the women of Braga washed their clothes on the bank of the river, where they later extended them on the slope of Mount Picoto.
The interior part is an extension of the exterior, however it is divided from the outside by a railing coming from the old Public Garden that existed in the Central Avenue. This part is characterized by a greater density in vegetation and a large artificial lake.
The old greenhouse, located in this part, was restored and transformed to headquarters of the Municipal Video Library of Braga.
Visit the Church of São Marcos - São Lázaro (Braga)
The Church of San Marcos, located in the parish of São Lázaro, dates back to the 16th century. XVIII and was built according to the Carlos Amarante project.
The church has a Baroque style, and in its exterior decoration stand the statues of life-size apostles that mark the rhythm of the upper balustrade. In the middle of the church façade, in a niche, we can see the image of Saint Mark.
D. Diogo de Sousa is buried in the main chapel of the Church, in a tomb of white jasper worked in mosaic.
Visit the Church of Santa Cruz - São Lázaro (Braga)
The Church of Santa Cruz, located in the parish of São Lázaro, was built in the 17th century in Mannerist Baroque style, and has unusual gilded carving inside. The nave is very tall and is formed by a vaulted stone quarry. The interior of the church was the feature of Brother José de Santo António Vilaça. Note the gilded carving of the organ and the pulpits. The exterior is all in stone worked with central symmetry.
The central part of the facade is divided in two registers, with finial in pediment and fins.
On the first level, four Doric columns corrugated with entablature, whose frieze presents, in relief, the instruments of the Passion of Christ, with the figure of the rooster at each end, evoking the denial of Peter.
The cloths are torn by three portals, topped by cartons with the following inscriptions, from left to right.
On the second landing there are four striated Ionic pilasters, with entablature interrupted by a telescope that extends to the pediment. The cloths have ornamental pictures (the sides top windows): in the center, the Santa Cruz with glitter and two crossed masts; on the left side, a fruit tree (the tree of Paradise); on the right side, a palm tree with a royal crown.
Underneath, at the level of the pedestals, three cards with inscriptions of verses of liturgical hymns that the pictures illustrate.
In the pediment, three medallions surround the oculus. The superior has superimposed the stone of arms of D. João VI, placed when this one, 11 of October of 1822, elevated the brotherhood of Santa Cruz to the category of Real. On the sides, the inscriptions refer to the date of 1736. To crown the set, three sculptures: St. Helena supporting the Cross, flanked by two figures in genuflection, armor and mantle, with the scepter and crown at the feet (judges are represented by the Emperor Constantine and D. Afonso Henriques).
Visit the Statue of Don Frei Bartolomeu dos Mártires - São Lázaro (Braga)
The Statue of D. Frei Bartolomeu dos Mártires, former Archbishop of Braga and a reference figure of the Council of Trent, located in the Parish of São Lázaro, was inaugurated in 2017.
Monday, June 25, 2018
Visit the Chapel of St. John of the Bridge - São Lázaro (Braga)
The Chapel of St. John of the Bridge, located in the Parish of St. Lazarus, is of longitudinal plan constituted by a porch supported by Tuscan columns, a single nave, a chancel and a sacristy attached. It was built in 1616, underwent several modifications in the following centuries, the last being the placing of a stone altarpiece with the image of the patron, in the first half of the 20th century.
Visit the Chapel of Our Lady of the Tower - São Lázaro (Braga)
The Chapel of Our Lady of the Tower, located in the Parish of São Lázaro, was built between 1756 and 1759, and is authored by the architect André Soares. At the top of the Santiago tower there is a bell tower and, at its base, an oratory dedicated to Our Lady of the Tower, erected as a way of thanking the city of Braga for having been spared the earthquake of 1755.
Visit the Lúcio Craveiro da Silva Library - São Lázaro (Braga)
The Lúcio Craveiro da Silva Library, located in the parish of São Lázaro, officially opened its doors to the public in 2004. The building was designed by the architect Mário Abreu, in order to preserve and expose the archaeological remains found in the place.
This space has three reading rooms for adults with a capacity of 200 seats, a children's reading room with 65 seats and an autonomous space specially designed for children's activities with 30 seats. A plastic expression room for group activities complements the space for the younger audience.
It also has an auditorium with 160 seats, an exhibition room and a bar with ample space where, in comfortable sofas, you can have your coffee while reading a newspaper, a magazine or a book, complete the equipment for the public.
Visit the Basilica of the Congregados - São Lázaro (Braga)
The Basilica of the Congregados, located in the parish of São Lázaro, was designed by the architect André Soares, built in the 16th century, though only finished in the 20th century.
The building began in 1703 and was blessed on October 27, 1717, although it was necessary to build the towers and place statues in the respective niches of the façade. These works would be carried out as early as the twentieth century.
The façade statues - São Filipe Néri and São Martinho de Dume - were hoisted to their sites on February 16, 1964, and are due to the sculptor Manuel da Silva Nogueira.
Visit the Archbishop's Palace of Braga - São João do Souto (Braga)
The Paço Arquiepiscopal, located in the parish of São João do Souto (Braga), is the palace of the Archbishops of Braga and over the centuries, with the addition of new buildings has resulted in an extraordinary multi-architectural urban complex.
The Medieval Paço de Braga is the oldest building in the complex and faces the Jardim de Santa Bárbara. It is from the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. It constitutes a sober building with the appearance of a fortification, which stands by the solidity of the regular apparatus of granite blocks, spans of ogival arch windows, surmounted by battlements.
The building includes the facades facing Largo do Paço where the rectory of the University of Minho, including the Noble Hall, is located.
The building facing the town square was erected in the early 18th century, this building was consumed by a fire on April 16, 1866, and was rebuilt during the 1930s.
Visit the Jardim de Santa Bárbara - São João do Souto (Braga)
The Jardim de Santa Bárbara, located in the parish of São João do Souto, is named after the seventeenth-century fountain that is there and is topped by a statue of Santa Bárbara, which once belonged to the Convent of Remedies.
This is a public garden worthy of photos thanks to the flowers with their vivid colors.
Visit the Church of the former Convent of Salvador - São João do Souto (Braga)
The Church of the former Convent of Salvador, located in the Parish of St. John of the Souto, was built in the early seventeenth century and rebuilt after 1908. The church is decorated in the Baroque style, highlighted by the ceiling painted by Domingos Lourenço in 1622.
Visit the Church of São João do Souto and the Coimbra Chapel - São João do Souto (Braga)
The Church of São João do Souto is located in the parish of São João do Souto and was built at the end of the 18th century and replaced the original church of the twelfth century.
The current church was built by order of Archbishop D. Gaspar de Bragança and is linked to the Coimbra Chapel.
The chapel has the shape of a quadrangular tower, divided into two distinct spaces
Galilee, with Manueline ornaments and statuary by Hodart; the interior part, authored by João de Rouão, has the traditional high altar and the arms of D. João de Coimbra.
The chapel is covered by a vault of ribs, and the walls have pictures, in tiles, alluding to Genesis.
Visit the Church of São Francisco - São João do Souto (Braga)
The Church of São Francisco, located in the Parish of São João do Souto, was built in 1690.
In this baroque church, the image of Our Lady of the Conception can be seen on the facade, and the chapel, lined with panels of tiles historicized by Nicolau de Freitas, dated 1734.
Visit the Castles Fountain - São João do Souto (Braga)
The Chafariz dos Castelos, located in the parish of São João do Souto, was built in 1723 and above has a female image that symbolizes the city.
Visit the Pelicano Fountain - São João do Souto (Braga)
The Pelicano Fountain, located in the center of Praça do Município in the parish of São João do Souto, is a Mannerist-Joannine style by the sculptor Marceliano de Araújo.
Originally it was in the gardens of Paço Arquiepiscopal Bracarense. Later he spent several years in the Ponte Park, until he was moved to the current location in the time of the presidency of the Chamber of Viriato Nunes. In the square was subject to transformations, raising its center.
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