Braga the old city

The Praça da República , with its Renaissance sopotales is the central area of the urban structure of Braga .

To the east is extended along Central Avenue , a pedestrian mall where the Roman road XVIII started connecting the city with Astorga , and west by commercial rua do Souto , which leads to the Cathedral and culminates in the bow gives Porta Nova , the last gate of the medieval wall built.

After the square is built the old town, a large pedestrian area, full of medieval and Baroque works, the result of the patronage of the archbishops.

Among the medieval highlights the keep of the castle of Braga , the tower of the Porta Nova , the Sé or Cathedral , the winding rua Janes or the Archbishop's Palace, which combines different artistic styles and is oriented east garden of Santa Barbara , a garden featuring more than 25 000 flowers.

Among the monuments are the pompous baroque palace dos Biscainhos (in the Largo do Paço), a modest manor house converted into museum showing the lifestyle of high society in the city, the convent do Populo and dos Crivos House , the seventeenth century.

And five minutes away is the splendid do Raio palace , the baroque jewel, with a facade of granite tiles and ornate windows.