Bragança - Portugal
Bragança virtual visit .Os celtas baptizaram a cidade, fundada no século II a.C., com o nome de Brigância, que se foi latinizando até passar a ser Bragança. Este nome é a origem do gentílico mais comum: brigantino.
Na área do actual concelho de Bragança, existia já uma povoação importante ao tempo da ocupação romana. Durante algum tempo, teve a designação de Julióbriga, dada a Brigância pelo imperador Augusto em homenagem a seu tio Júlio César.
Destruída durante as guerras entre cristãos e mouros, encontrava-se em território pertencente ao mosteiro beneditino de Castro de Avelãs quando a adquiriu, por troca, em 1130, Fernão Mendes de Bragança, cunhado de Dom Afonso Henriques. Reconstruída no lugar de Benquerença, Dom Sancho I concedeu-lhe foral em 1187, e libertou-a em 1199 do cerco que lhe impusera Afonso IX de Leão, pondo-lhe, então, definitivamente, o nome de Bragança. O regente Dom Pedro, em 1442, elevou Bragança a cabeça de ducado concedido a seu irmão ilegítimo dom Afonso, 8º conde de Barcelos, que fora genro de Dom Nuno Álvares Pereira.
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Bragança, Portugal July 2017
Bragança is a city and municipality in north-eastern Portugal, capital of the district of Bragança, in the Alto Trás-os-Montes subregion of Portugal. The population in 2011 was 35,341,[1] in an area of 1173.57 km².#Silvatripreport #portugal #familyteam
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Guimarães is a city and municipality located in northern Portugal, in the district of Braga. Its historic town center is listed as UNESCO World Heritage Site since 2001, in recognition for being an exceptionally well-preserved and authentic example of the evolution of a medieval settlement into a modern town in Europe.
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Welcome to BRAGA. A Charming City in Northern Portugal.
Happy Holidays from Braga, Portugal! We are visiting this beautiful city located in the north of Portugal. Braga has plenty to offer, amazing views, incredible food, history, and more. Join us, and let’s explore this city.
Braga is a city in the Cávado Valley of Northern Portugal. It is the fifth largest city in Portugal after Lisbon, Porto, Amadora and Vila Nova de Gaia. It is an ancient and modern city and one of the most important Archdiocese.
Braga has a university is called the Universidade do Minho, and it is around 30 years old. It has a medium size campus area with lots of bars and cheap restaurants around it.
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Portugal’s third-largest city is an elegant town laced with ancient narrow lanes closed to vehicles, strewn with plazas and a splendid array of baroque churches. Braga is a lively city, one of the oldest in the country, and is teeming with young people who study at its universities. The constant chiming of bells is a reminder of Braga’s age-old devotion to the spiritual world. Its religious festivals – particularly the elaborately staged Semana Santa (Holy Week) – are famous throughout Portugal. But don’t come expecting piety alone: Braga’s upscale old centre is packed with lively cafes and trim boutiques, some excellent restaurants and low-key bars catering to students from the Universidade do Minho. In fact, it's such a young city that in 2012 it was pronounced the European Youth Capital.
It’s known for its religious heritage and events. To the east, Bom Jesus do Monte complex has a neoclassical church atop an elaborate 17-flight stairway. In the city center, medieval Braga Cathedral is home to a sacred art museum and the Gothic-style Kings' Chapel. Nearby, the imposing Archbishop’s Palace overlooks Santa Barbara Garden.
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The Igreja de Bom Jesus (Church of the Good Jesus):
This church is one of the most remarkable examples of 18th (and early 19th) Century religious architecture anywhere-- if it weren't in little-visited northern Portugal, it would be far more famous. The church at the top of the mountain outside the city of Braga, completed in 1822 by Portuguese architect Carlos Amarante, replacing an earlier (15th Century) shrine at the same site. The fascination of Bom Jesus lies not in the church, but rather in the Escadaria (stairway) leading up the mountain-side. The Escadaria was originally devised by the Archbishop of Braga in 1722 to allow pilgrims to reach the earlier shrine; in its completed form (also by Almarante), it is one of the best examples of Baroque religious architecture in Iberia.
Santa Barbara Garden:
The Santa Barbara Garden is a must-see attraction for any visitor to Portugal’s historic city of Braga. Located within easy reach of the main square, the cathedral, and other Braga attractions, one can easily find it next to the former palace of the Archbishop. Built in a fortress-like style, the palace began being erected in the 14th century, undergoing several extensions and renovations subsequently, most notably in the 17th century.
The Cathedral of Braga:
The Cathedral of Braga is one of the city’s cultural highlights and a must-visit destination on your trip to Braga, Portugal. The Cathedral of Braga dates back to the 11th Century and it is now the oldest-surviving church in Portugal, fully befitting of the country’s third-largest and oldest city. The cathedral was commissioned by Count Henry of Burgundy and was built on the site of an old Romanesque building, a former Moorish mosque.
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Guimaraes Tourist Attractions: 15 Top Places To Visit
Planning to visit Guimaraes? Check out our Guimaraes Travel Guide video and see top most Tourist Attractions in Guimaraes.
Top Places to visit in Guimaraes (Portugal):
Centro Historico de Guimaraes, Largo da Oliveira, Igreja e Convento de Sao Francisco, Montanha - Parque da Penha, Largo Republica do Brasil, Citania de Briteiros, Praca de S. Tiago, Paco dos Duques de Braganca, Santuario da Penha, Rua de Santa Maria, Largo do Toural, Igreja de Nossa Senhora da Oliveira, Guimaraes Castle, Alberto Sampaio Museum, Estatua de D. Afonso Henriques
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Les 8 plus beaux châteaux du Portugal.
1. Castelo de Almourol
2. Castelo de Penedono
3. Castelo de Santa Maria da Feira
4. Castelo de Bragança
5. Castelo do Sabugal
6: Castelo de Marvão
7. Castelo de Tomar
8. Castelo de Guimarães
Monsaraz Alentejo Portugal HD
A tour around Monsaraz. Xerez, Orada, Corval, Valentine Rock and the Monsaraz River Beach.
* Monsaraz: *
Video of the village
* Cromeleque do Xerez *
The Xerez's cromlech was erected between the beginning of the 4th and the mid-3rd millennium BC. Its unique quadrangular shape develops around a central menir of about 4m in height, which presents on one of its faces several dimples in all their verticality.
This megalithic monument consists of 50 granite menirs, of phallic form, whose height varies between 1,20m and 1,50m. Although the majority of these menhirs are partially fractured, the fact that they are prostrate in situ, allowed the eventual reconstruction of its original form.
This cromlech was the only monument in the region to be transferred in 2004 due to the construction of the Alqueva dam, next to the Convent of the Orada.
* Convento da Orada: *
Implanted in the middle of the plain, north of the town of Monsaraz and near the place of Ferragudo, the Convent of the Orada stands out for its size and whiteness in a sparsely wooded area.
The place where today stands the cross in front of the church, corresponds to the space occupied by an old hermitage founded by D. Nuno Alvares Pereira. This hermitage underwent profound changes in the late sixteenth century, having passed to the Order of Santiago by the will of the Duke of Braganza. Finally, in 1670, the temple was given to the Barefoot Augustinians who, in 1700, founded the convent, demolishing the secular hermitage.
The construction of the convent will only be completed in 1741 but, shortly after, in 1755, will suffer with the impact of the great earthquake. In 1820, on the occasion of the restructuring of the order, part of the assets of the already extinct convent of Nossa Senhora da Orada were annexed to the convent of Portalegre.
* Fluvial Beach of Monsaraz: *
The Fluvial Beach of Monsaraz, situated in the Nautical Center of Monsaraz, in an inland zone far from the sea, is the first fluvial beach of the Alqueva reservoir.
* São Pedro do Corval: *
The tradition of pottery in São Pedro do Corval goes back to prehistoric times, due to the existence of deposits of clays, which have always motivated this activity.
Through pots, potters' wheels and ovens, we find unique traditional utility pieces that carry us back to the old days when the clay was molded to the needs of the fields and the humble lives in the Alentejo.
Today we find in São Pedro do Corval true works of art, both in form and in decoration - ceramic painting - made with an ancestral knowledge and a characteristic aesthetic of the region. Together with the unique experience of being able to see the clay to be molded by the experienced hands of the master potter on his wheel and to share his knowledge and experiences, São Pedro do Corval, with more than 20 docks in constant excellence the largest center of potters in the country and one of the largest in the Iberian Peninsula.
* Menir da Rocha dos Namorados: *
It is a menir consisting of a block of natural granite, more than two meters high, which has a shape similar to that of a mushroom or a uterus.
This rock is associated with a centuries-old pagan fertility rite, which consists of: the girls of marriageable age, will consult the rock (as if it were an oracle), to know how much time remains to be married. For this purpose they shoot up the menhir, a stone. If this stone does not stand on the rock and fall to the ground, it means they have to wait another year for the wedding. This consultation with the valentine's rock was usually done on Easter Monday.