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Braga, Bracara Augusta

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A city in the municipality of Braga northwestern Portugal considered the oldest Christian archdiocese in the country and one of the oldest in the world. Under the Roman Empire, known as Bracara Augusta was the center of the province of Gallaecia.

With a total urban population of around 180.000 inhabitants is the third-largest city in Portugal (after Lisbon and Porto), including the city and suburban parishes.

Its agglomerated urban area extends from the Cavado River to the Easte River. Braga is also the Minho´s greater metropolitan area which includes a population of around 800.000 (2007 statistics), considered one of the fastest growing urban areas in the European Union.

Ponte de Rodas, The Wheel Bridge in Amares

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National Monument, public, medieval civil architecture, built in the Middle Ages in Caldelas parish, under the river Man and connects between the town of Caldelas and the Vila Verde. It consists of flat tray on three unequal arches, with two buttresses with triangular contour talhamar and butcher rectangular outline.

Porto Bridge, Ponte do Porto in Amares

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Classified as a National Monument, belongs to the public medieval civil architecture. This remarkable property, with probable construction of the fourteenth century, is located in Prozelo parish, under the river Cávado, establishing the connection of the Braga Póvoa de Varzim and Braga. It is located in a rural area and consists of a flat tray on fourteen broken arches and full, with three Pegoes separated by eyes.
Considered a great work of beauty and architecture, the Harbor Bridge has buttresses with triangular and rectangular talhamares butchers.

Monastery of Santo André of Rendufe, in Amares

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The Monastery of St. Andrew Rendufe, located in a valley in the countryside, isolated by its old wall, was built in the century. XII in Rendufe parish.

The male Benedictine Monastery, which includes the gilt, national baroque style, is classified as a Public Interest. Part of the monastery (monastic and fifth dependencies fence) belong to private persons, known for its production of white wine.

Being one of the most beautiful jewels of baroque architecture of the Braga Municipality, St. Andrew Monastery Rendufe provides, however, a journey through the various architectural styles, where we can find the energy and the Baroque movement, on the one hand, and sobriety the neoclassical on the other.

Monastary of Santa Maria do Bouro and Inn, in Amares

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SANTA MARIA MONASTERY OF BOURO

Visit Braga Municipality is to make a journey through the history, to the extent that there are many monuments that depict documented times that are directly related to the great moments in the history of Portugal.

The Monastery and Inn of Santa Maria de Bouro is a copy of this wealth. Classified as a cultural heritage building, situated in the parish of Santa Maria Bouro, was founded in the twelfth century. The monastery belonged to the Cistercian Order and is characterized by its religious architecture, Romanesque, mannerist, baroque, rococo, neoclassical and contemporary. To emphasize the sacristy lined with eighteenth-century tiles, which is depicted the life of St. Bernard, an artistic treasure legacy by our ancestors and unknown dosmais watchful eyes.

Part of the monastery (convent) was adapted for a “Pousada de Portugal”, considered today a luxurious reference.

Shrine of Our Lady of The Abbey, in Amares

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SHRINE OF OUR LADY OF THE ABBEY

Located in a pleasant place, where contact with the natural environment is privileged, the Shrine of Our Lady of the Abbey was built in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, in the parish of Santa Maria Bouro. The Marian shrine belongs to the baroque and rococo architecture and consists of chapels of Stations of the Cross, church, cruise, supplies and buildings to support pilgrims.

It is a devotion place and at the same time, a quiet place of rare beauty, where visitors are invited to stay and enjoy moments of rest. Around the Shrine of Our Lady of the Abbey, admire it a heavenly environment where the whisper of water and the chirping of small birds break the silence that so characterizes this space. Hiking and relaxing pathways are very appealing and activities that can promote themselves in the surrounding area.

Also of note is the Museum of the Shrine of Our Lady of the Abbey, installed in the old “barracks” of the Sanctuary. It is identified mainly by religious art, statues, tools, documentation and religious events, etc. Ethnography, folklore and crafts (flax cultivation), also contribute to their identity.