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Wednesday, April 24, 2019

Visit the Tower of the Old Cathedral - Sé (Bragança)


Visit the Cathedral of Bragança - Sé (Bragança)

The Cathedral of Bragança is the seat of the Diocese of Bragança-Miranda. The temple was inaugurated in 2001. It was designed by the architect Vassalo Rosa in a total space of 10 thousand square meters.

Visit the Rio Fervença - Sé (Bragança)

The Fervença River, crosses the parish of Sé and is one of the most pleasant places for walking and practicing outdoor activities in the city of Bragança.

Monday, April 22, 2019

Visit the Quinta da Rica-Fé - Sé (Bragança)

Quinta da Rica-Fé is a large rural tourism property surrounded by nature and located in the parish of Sé that has an outdoor pool with barbecue facilities and a chapel. It is 2 km from the center of the city of Bragança.
The property features an old granite fountain from 1742. There is also a sports area.

Sunday, April 21, 2019

Visit the Pousada de São Bartolomeu - Sé (Bragança)

The Pousada de São Bartolomeu, situated in the parish of Sé, offers panoramic views of the city and Bragança Castle. Facilities include an outdoor swimming pool.
Rooms at Pousada de Bragança have a private balcony with views of the outdoor pool and the walls of the medieval castle. It is also possible to go hiking and fishing in the surrounding area.

Visit the Monument to the 25th of April - Sé (Bragança)

The monument to 25 de Abril, located in the parish of Sé, is the author of José Rodrigues.

Visit the Miniatures of Jose Santana - Sé (Bragança)


Visit the Gardens of Praça do Municipio - Sé (Bragança)


Visit the Church of the Holy Constable - Sé (Bragança)


Wednesday, April 17, 2019

Visit the Church of the Misericordia - Sé (Bragança)

The Misericórdia Church, located in the Parish of Sé, was built during the XIV century and dedicated to the Holy Spirit, later rebuilt and expanded in 1539 to establish mercy. One of the most beautiful examples of seventeenth-century mannerism is the high altar. In the lateral chapel, which dates from the end of the 18th century, there is the image of the Lord of the Paços.

Visit the Urban Art of Bragança - Sé (Bragança)

In the City of Bragança there are dozens of urban art interventions as a result of the 3 editions of the Urban Art Festival.

Visit the History and Art Gallery - Sé (Bragança)


Visit the Cruzeiro da Sé (Bragança)

Cruzeiro da Sé, located in the parish of Sé, has a serpentine shaft, and was placed in the square at the end of the 17th century, to replace another piece that existed there. In century XIX was taken to the cemetery, having returned to the place of origin in 1931.

Tuesday, April 16, 2019

Visit the Garden Fountain Dr. José António Almeida - (Sé) Bragança

The Fountain of the Jardim Dr. José António Almeida, located in the Parish of Sé, dates from 1935.

Visit the Living Science Center of Bragança - (Sé) Bragança

The Living Science Center of Bragança, located in the parish of Sé, is part of the network of Centros Ciência Viva, focused on energy and environmental issues.
The center is divided into two buildings: an old hydroelectric power station on the left bank of the Fervença river and the so-called "Casa da Seda" and an old hydraulic mill. The "Casa da Seda" incorporates air conditioning systems that maximize natural heating and cooling capacity.
The permanent exhibitions are presented in modules, dedicated to energy, the environment, recycling and silk production.

Visit the Chapel of Saint Anthony - (Sé) Bragança


Sunday, April 14, 2019

Visit the Casa do Arco - Sé (Bragança)

The Casa do Arco or Solar dos Pimenteis, located in the Parish of Sé is a palatial house, is of seventeenth-century civil architecture, ending, on the west side, in a tower. It belonged to the family of Morais, Pimentéis and Bacelares. In 1694 was constructed the vault that united the two houses that belonged to the owner. Already at the beginning of the 19th century, the site underwent expansion works.

Visit the Municipal Library of Bragança - Sé (Bragança)


Saturday, April 13, 2019

Visit the Church of Saint Peter - Saint Peter of Saracens

The church of São Pedro, located in the parish of São Pedro de Sarracenos, has the main entrance covered by a porch, inside which is a stone sink. At the end of the façade, the double bell tower appears, truncating the gable. For this church a set of tablets was made, discovered by Father Francisco Videira Pires, which represent scenes of the life and death of Christ as Quo Vadis, the meditation of St. Peter, the holy women with Christ on the Cross and the punishment of St. Peter. This church is from the 16th century.

Visit the Fountain of St. Peter of Saracens


Visit the Baladeiro Waterfall - São Pedro de Sarracenos


Visit the Chapel of St. Peter of Saracens


Visit the Church of St. Bartholomew - St. John of the Palaces

The Church of St. Bartholomew, located in the Parish of St. John of Palaces, features Mannerist and Baroque architecture consisting of a longitudinal plant with three naves, a higher and narrow chapel and a double bell. It has medieval origins and was renovated in the middle of the 18th century.

Thursday, April 11, 2019

Visit the Manor of Santa Maria - Santa Maria (Bragança)

Solar de Santa Maria is located in the parish of Santa Maria, offering accommodation in Bragança in a seventeenth-century manor house in the heart of the old town, 75 meters from Bragança Castle Gardens. It has a garden with cloisters.

Visit the Sanctuary of St. Bartholomew - Santa Maria (Bragança)


Visit the Quinta da Boa Ventura - Santa Maria (Bragança)

Quinta da Boa Ventura, located in the parish of Santa Maria, is a rural tourism space that features spacious rooms with mountain views. The accommodation features an outdoor swimming pool, a tennis court

Visit the Military Museum of Bragança - Santa Maria (Bragança)

The Military Museum of Bragança, located in the parish of Santa Maria, occupies all floors of the Tower of Menagem of the castle of Bragança, with a total of 165 exhibition halls, arose in 1929 for the desire to preserve the memory of the military experiences of the city. Many of its pieces were donated by the inhabitants themselves and tell a story of the evolution of light weaponry between the twelfth and twentieth centuries.

Wednesday, April 10, 2019

Visit the Monument of the Rotunda do Sabor - Santa Maria (Bragança)

The Monument of the Rotunda do Sabor, located in the Parish of Santa Maria, is on an arch above a water mirror, to remind you of a bridge, on which is placed the emblematic sculpture: three figures, representing inhabitants of the region, accompanied by three donkeys loaded with "sacks of coals and charcoal, sheaves of heather, products of the earth and other goods that the Rural World provided to supply the city."
The monument is the author of the sculptor Barata Feyo

Visit the Miradouro Staircase of St. Bartholomew - Santa Maria (Bragança)

The Miradouro Staircase of St. Bartholomew, located in the Parish of Santa Maria, is a touristic circuit with far reaching views over the county of Bragança. There are also automotive and cycling circuits.

Visit the Church and Convent of São Bento - Santa Maria (Bragança)

The Church of São Bento, located in the parish of Santa Maria, Bragança, is part of a convent founded in 1590 by order of D. Maria Teixeira, occupying the houses that belonged to it. Even today, the stones of arms visible in the facade of the temple and the pediment of baroque style are visible. In the interior the ceiling of the vaulted nave stands out, with paintings by Manuel Caetano Fortuna, the chapel with altarpiece of 1721 and the ceiling that boasts an excellent scenic painting, using the Trompe-l'oeil technique.

Visit the Church of the Divine Lord of Good Head - Santa Maria (Bragança)


Visit the Church of Santa Maria - Santa Maria (Bragança)

The Church of Santa Maria, located in the parish of Santa Maria, in the city of Bragança, was built in the 17th century. XIV.
Considered as the oldest church of Bragança, it is of Romanesque style and was, during two centuries, modified, having resulted in a Baroque style. The façade features a baroque portal richly decorated with two salomonic columns decorated with leaves of vines and clusters.
Its interior is formed by three naves separated by polygonal columns, that support the arches and a scenic painting, in the cover of the body of the Church, representing the Assumption of the Virgin. The main chapel and chapel of the Figueiredos, the altarpiece to Saint Stephen and the image of Santa Maria Magdalena stand out.

Tuesday, April 9, 2019

Visit the Statue of Saint Benedict - Santa Maria (Bragança)

The statue of São Bento, located in the parish of Santa Maria, is located in a Miradouro at about 820 meters altitude

Visit the Domus Municipalis of Bragança - Santa Maria (Bragança)

The Domus Municipalis is located in the parish of Santa Maria, in the city of Bragança. It stands out as the only example of Romanesque civil architecture in the Iberian Peninsula.
It was built in the 12th century. In stone masonry, it presents plant in form an irregular pentagon. It has an underground, which houses a vaulted cistern. It served as a water cistern, but there are doubts as to whether this would have been its original function.
The designation because it is known today (in Latin "Domus Municipalis", in Portuguese language "Municipal House") is due to have been used as Paços do Concelho by the Municipal Administration of Bragança.
It is classified as a National Monument.

Sunday, April 7, 2019

Visit the Castle of Bragança - Santa Maria (Bragança)

The Castle of Bragança located in the parish of Santa Maria, in the historical center of the city of Bragança, is one of the most important and well preserved Portuguese castles. From the top of its walls you can see the mountain ranges of Montesinho and Sanabria (to the north), Rebordões (to the northeast) and Nogueira (to the west).
D. Sancho I (1185-1211) endowed the town with the first walled fence in 1188.
Under the reign of D. Dinis (1279-1325), it was determined to erect a second walled perimeter in 1293.
Already under the reign of D. Fernando (1367-1383), he received works of improvement. At this stage, when this sovereign was involved in the succession dispute of Castile, Bragança was surrounded and conquered by the Castilian troops, returning to the Portuguese possession only by means of the signing of the Treaty of Alcoutim (1371). The keep was built around 1439.
The castle is of oval plan and set in the quota of 700 meters above sea level, it is constituted by a fence ameada with a perimeter of 660 meters, reinforced by fifteen cubes. The walls, with an average thickness of two meters, cover the historic center of the city, occupying an area of ​​about three hectares, and delimited four spaces, guided by two road axes, whose main is the old street of the Citadel. In its interior the visitor can appreciate the buildings of the Domus Municipalis (unique example in the country of the Romanesque civil architecture and that is believed to have had, originally, the functions of tanker). In this fence, three doors are torn (two under the invocation of St. Anthony and the Door of the Sun, to the East) and two shutters (the Door of Betrayal and the Postigo of the King's Well).
The main door of Santo António, in a perfect back arc, between two turrets, is defended by a barbican, in which is located the Door of the Village, in ogival arc. In the interior, in the square of arms, it is possible to observe the adaptations of the accesses and the platforms destined to the artillery.
In the North sector, where the installations of Battalion of Hunters # 3 were erected, stands the Tower of Menagem, of square plan, with 17 meters of width, rising to 34 meters of height, attached to the fence. In shale masonry, abundant rock in the region, in the wedges and openings granite was used. Its interior, where the dungeon and the cistern are, is divided in two floors, with rooms covered by vaults of edge, reinforced by arches torais. At first a drawbridge reached the door in a higher plane, now replaced by an external staircase, masonry attached to the north face of its armor. In the South face, half height of the tower, is a stone of arms with the coat of arms of the House of Avis. The top is crowned by cross-sectional battlements, countertops with kills, with four cylindrical guards at the vertices, dominating, on the East face and the South face, two mainelated Gothic windows. A fence, reinforced by seven cubes (three to the east, three to the west and one to the south) of circular plan, defend the exterior of the tower, delimiting an approximately rectangular space.
Also on the north side of the outer fence, next to one of the basins, stands the so-called Torre da Princesa, former Paço do Alcaide. Building of residential characteristics (torre-alcáçova), its existence is surrounded by stories, one of the most popular the legend of the Moorish princess. In historical times, it is said that it was inhabited by D. Sancha, sister of D. Afonso Henriques, as a refuge in the face of marital infidelities practiced by her husband Fernão Mendes. In her, was also imprisoned D. Leonor, wife of the fourth Duke of Braganza, D. Jaime, accused (unjustly) of adultery by the own husband. The duke ended up murdering his wife, in the Paço Ducal of Vila Viçosa, stabbing, on November 2, 1512.
In the south sector, a projection of quadrangular plant is closed by Poço del'Rei, structure XVIII with the function of defense of a cistern.

Visit the Mother Church of Santa Comba das Rossas


Visit the Fountain of Santa Comba das Rossas


Visit the Chapel of Our Lady of Pereiro - Santa Comba das Rossas