Home > Travel > National Park International >

Braga

Description: Braga located in the north of Portugal one of the most scenic and historic part of Portugal. Braga, a city and ... more

Braga ... municipality in northwestern Portugal, is the capital of the district of Braga, the oldest archdiocese and one of the major cities of the country. With a population of 155,000 in the urban area, Braga is one of the most important urban centers of Portugal after the much larger Lisbon Metropolitan Area and Porto Metropolitan Area conurbations. Including the suburban parishes, the municipality has a total of 62 parishes and 170,858 inhabitants. Braga is also the center of the Greater Metropolitan Area of Minho with a population of 798,137 one of the fastest growing urban areas in the European Union. Under the Roman Empire, as Bracara Augusta, it was capital of the province Gallaecia. Ancient castles, historic monasteries and ruins from Roman times abound.

Newest Review: ... theaters, and very intersting museums. There's also a few shopping malls in the city, Bragashopping, right in the center of the historic city(with movie theatres), the BragaParque wich is currently the biggest mall in the city (and is expanding an remodeling the new space will be ready in october 09)(with movie theaters)Near the Minho university), and the Dolce Vita Braga currently under ... more

... construction will be the new biggest mall with 75 000 sq. meters in the north side of the city. The historic buildings you can find them all over the historic center, some open to the public, others don't. There's also a few roman and pre-roman sit...more

Read Reviews for Braga

Braga!!! (367 words)
by Peter - written on 28/04/09
Rating:

Braga is the most amazing city i have ever visited. The historic center is very beautiful, with amazing religious and civil buildings, the streets are filled with live and great shops. Because of the excessive opening of new malls in the vicinity, some portuguese cities have a lot of problems with abandonement and decay in the historic downtowns, thankfully that didn't happen in Braga, so the historic center has a lot of people and a great variety of stores, a few megastores like Zara, H&M and department stores, hundreads of other stores from local international and international groups, restaurants from the tipical, cheap "tascas", to ... Read the complete review

Braga, the religious capital of portugal (594 words)
by - written on 24/05/04 (Very useful, 41 readings)
Rating:

I have the honour of spending a lot of time per year in this Portuguese city and I must say it's an amazing place, either to live or to visit. Here is a more detailed description of the place. Monuments Being the religious capital of Portugal, you can imagine that the place is full of churches and the like. In centre, and oldest part of the city you will find a huge amount of this religious buildings, from small shrines to huge temples. The "Santa Sé" deserves special mentioning because it is one of the oldest buildings in the country (Portuguese ppl have an expression that goes like ... Read the complete review

Braga (194 words)
by - written on 13/09/00 (Very useful, 30 readings)
Rating:

I've just come back from the World Karting Championships in Braga, which is a city around 30 miles from Porto and is the religious capital of the country. It's a big place, and most of it is either charmless apartment blocks and building sites. However, the old centre of the city is amazing with it's mixture of churches, municipal buildings, and modern shops and arcitectural features. It's a shame the route from the new section to the old is not well signed but we found it in the end! Road signs in Portugal look the same as the ones in the UK but they don't seem to have the ones for tourist attractions, typical ignorant Brit that I am! ... Read the complete review