Description Braga

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With over 2000 years of history and located in the Northern Region and Cávado sub-region, Braga is the District's capital.

Braga is a city of enormous beauty and wealth, which combines tradition with innovation, memory with youth, creativity with conservatism.

With more than 2000 years of a rich history, it has one of the oldest Sacro-Montes of all Europe and standard bearer of the region Minhota, Bom Jesus. It is in Braga that there is the oldest Cathedral of Portugal and the Mother House of the Benedictines, the Monastery of Tibães.

Braga presents places that, due to their intrinsic devotion and beauty, impose themselves as landmarks of obligatory reference and visit. The Sanctuary of Sameiro, Bom Jesus and Falperra, based on an appealing religious base, are surrounded by extasiantes green spaces and paradisiacal landscapes.

The Roman legacy is another of the attractive factors of Braga, often dubbed 'Portuguese Rome', as a result of its origin in the Roman city of Bracara Augusta. Known for its distinctive churches, splendid 18th century houses, gardens, parks and leisure spaces. The long history of Braga is visible in all the splendor of its monuments, museums and churches.

To visit Braga is to make a trip in time within the modernity. Old town and traditional religiosity - always imposing on its richness and majesty - lives hand in hand with entrepreneurship and young spirit in such vital areas as culture, commerce, gastronomy, industry and services.

The diversity of influences received during centuries of other cultures, are quite visible in the minhota cuisine. Here we can highlight Braga's duck rice, sarrabulho rice with rojões, farinhotes (pork sausages and corn flour), belouas, livers and green (blood) fried with garlic . Exclusively bracarenses, the frying pans, great puff pastry pastry filled with cow and ham, cited as divine by Júlio Dinis.

It is in the sweets that Braga reaches a greater originality, with the Abbot de Priscos pudding, the bacon of the sky, the scallops, the king cake, the pastry cakes and the brago de Braga.