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
