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.

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.

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.

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.