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Square of the municipality, one of Braga's most beautiful squares. The municipality (1750-1850) of the Master Bracarense André Soares (1720-1769) with his late baroque, symmetrical facade, and his main door has a niche with the quinhentist image of the release nª Livramento, which was in the former edification of the municipality of the century. XVI. The rising the third volume of the Paço Arquiepiscopal (Baroque) commanded to build by D.José de Bragança. It is a palace, whose project was André Soares. An fire in 1866 partially destroyed the building and important files and the D.gaspar de Bragança library. The Paço Arquiepiscopal was restored from 1930, and in 1934 it was transferred here the district file.
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