Main Street.
Braganza (in Portuguese: Bragança) is a city in the region of Trás-os-Montes, Portugal.
To get
There is no station in Bragança, but express buses arrive from Braga, Port and other cities. Twice a week there is a bus from Zamora, Spain.
Travel
Walking will be easy for most, but a taxi to the Cidadela is possible for those who find the short but steep hill daunting.
Watch
Menagem Tower.
Domus Municipalis.
The city is nice and there is a good museum on the main street, but Braganza's fame lies in the Cidadela, practically a separate town above the city and with a marked medieval flavor. There are three specific places here:
- Torre de Menagem - the massive keep of a castle that belonged to the Dukes of Braganza, the last of the Portuguese royal family, but not their main residence, which was in Guimarães.
- Domus Municipalis - a secular pentagonal construction - probably an 11th century council chamber.
- A cross preaching the rise of the back of a prehistoric pig outside the castle.
Do
- Montezinho national park
To buy
Local souvenirs / pottery, wick baskets.
To eat
There is a very good restaurant in the Ciudad Deportiva area.
Go out and drink
Local mineral waters; port (Douro) came.
Sleep
- Pousada de Bragança - São Bartolomeu, 5300-271 Bragança. ☎ 351 273 331 493, fax: 351 273 323 453, ✉: [email protected]. Charming hotel.
Next destination
- Miranda do Douro, Miranda de Douro I in the Mirandesa language.
- Chaves, a historic city crossed by the Tamega River.
- Vidago - Salus and Pedras Salgadas (thermal villas)