Braga is a Portuguese city situated north of Portugal. It is a municipality with 183.4 km² of area, a population of 181 494 inhabitants (2011) and 137 000 inhabitants in its urban perimeter, being the center of the old region called Minho. In the course of the second century A.C., the region was taken by the Romans. Braga was built in 16 BC, with the designation of Bracara Augusta, in honor of the Roman Emperor Augusto (R. 27 AC-14 DC). The city would become capital of the province of Galécia and integrate the three convents from the Northwest Peninsular and part of the Convent of Clúnia, with a population of approximately 285,000 taxable taxes in the 24th in the year 25.
Of this time also the creation of Bracara Augusta Bishopric, according to Legend, São Pedro de Rates was the first Bishop BraCarense between the 45th and 60s, ordained by the apostle Santiago Maior who would have come from Holy Land and was martyred when converted adherent people to the Roman religion in the northwest of the Iberian Peninsula. But only in the year 385 is that the Pope Sirício refers to the metropolitan of Bracara Augusta.
It is called the city of Archbishops, for its power in the city of this remote times. Some of this archbishops, came to turn the shape of the city, sending open new streets and new buildings, etc. Best European Destination for 2021
A funerary chapel of Visigothic origin, a rare pre-Romanic monument in Portugal. Follows the model of Gala Placidia of Ravenna. Around 656 São Frutuoso, Bishop of Bracara, founded the Monastery of São Salvador in this place, ordering the construct...
In 1718, the confraternity of Nossa Senhora de Guadalupe, with the support of Archbishop D. Rodrigo de Moura Teles, made an agreement with the master bricklayer Manuel Fernandes da Silva to proceed with the demolition of the old chapel, dedicated ...
There was a church here in the Middle Ages, of which a stone with a funerary inscription from the 7th century remained on the wall of the sacristy. Another tombstone, on the main façade, indicates the dates for the reconstruction of the temple in ...
Largo de Santiago is located in the very center of the old Roman city of Braga, close to the old Roman Forum. The medieval wall also passed through here, in which we can see one of its towers, the Torre de Santiago next to the Porta de Santiago, t...
In 1998, when the previous floor of the Largo de São Paulo was dismantled, several Roman walls were identified. In the impossibility of carrying out an archaeological excavation in an area, the walls were designed and photographed by the Archeolog...
During the great persecution against Christians by the Romans, decreed by Diocletian in 303 A.D., a young catechumen named Victor was arrested in Braga. For refusing to worship the pagan gods, he was beheaded at the site today called the Goladas. ...
It was one of the doors on the city walls, torn in 1512, at the time of the Archbishop of Braga, D. Diogo de Sousa. Its current shape dates from 1772, at the initiative of Archbishop D. Gaspar de Bragança, designed by Braga architect André Soares,...
Following for a west by Street S. John of Souto, we have a perspective on the head of the Cathedral, one of the most worked parts of the Cathedral. It was built in the time of D.Diogo de Sousa, between 1506-1509 with the drawing of João de Castilh...
A funerary chapel of Visigothic origin, a rare pre-Romanic monument in Portugal. Follows the model of Gala Placidia of Ravenna. Around 656 São Frutuoso, Bishop of Bracara, founded the Monastery of São Salvador in this place, ordering the construct...
Built in 1562 by Archbishop D.Frii Bartolomeu dos Martires, under the probable guidance of master Manuel Luís (he worked at the Convento de S. Gonçalo de Amarante and at the Igreja da Misericórdia do Porto). Mannerist façade of Flemish influences ...
A funerary chapel of Visigothic origin, a rare pre-Romanic monument in Portugal. Follows the model of Gala Placidia of Ravenna. Around 656 São Frutuoso, Bishop of Bracara, founded the Monastery of São Salvador in this place, ordering the construct...
This 30m Tower, crowned with merlons and matacães, is the old keep of the medieval citadel built by D. Dinis, and concluded during the reign of D. Fernando. The citadel was demolished in 1905 at the initiative of the municipality, with great contr...
This 30m Tower, crowned with merlons and matacães, is the old keep of the medieval citadel built by D. Dinis, and concluded during the reign of D. Fernando. The citadel was demolished in 1905 at the initiative of the municipality, with great contr...
The Chapel of N.Sra a Conceição was built in 1525 by Dr. Coimbra de Coimbra, Vicar General of the archdiocese. The project is from João de Castillo, author of the Mor of the Cé. Galilé closes a set of Renaissance polychrome images (1525-28). The a...
The square was opened in 1725, at the initiative of the then Archbishop of Braga, D. Rodrigo de Moura Teles, with project of the architect Manuel Pinto de Vilalobos. This place has already had the designations of Gavião Square, District of Gavieir...
