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   Holy Week Ceremonies in Braga

   In Braga, which has been a diocese since the 3rd century, religion continues to play a dominant role at the heart of the community, and religious ceremonies are celebrated with great fervour. The most splendid of these is Easter. The city is (...)

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   Old Vila Real

   Old Vila Real - along Carvalho Araújo AvenueIn the early years of the 20th century, a section of houses, was demolished, to open up this broad, well laid out avenue with its pavements in Portuguese cobbles. It was named in honour of Carvalho Araújo, (...)

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   Festival of Nossa Senhora dos Remédios

   In the fifteenth century, close to the site where the shrine now stands was a small chapel dedicated to St Stephen. In the sixteenth century, the bishop of Lamego, D. Manuel de Noronha, commissioned from the "holy city" of Rome a statue of the (...)

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   Largo do Toural

   Whilst the atmosphere in Largo de São Tiago evokes memories of the city´s mediaeval past, the architecture of Largo do Toural highlights the great concern of the town planners in the 18th-century period of the Enlightenment with producing wide and (...)

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   Largo de São Tiago and Rua de Santa Maria

   Forming a very old part of the city, this square is surrounded by beautiful houses with typically northern features, simple three-storey 16th and 17th-century constructions, whose wooden balconies illustrate the great skill of the carpenters at that (...)

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   Organisations and Associations

   Federação Portuguesa de Montanhismo e Escalada

   
   
   Telephone: 227 310 161
   Fax: 227 310 161
   E-mail: gestao@fpme.org
   Website: http://www.fpme.org
   

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   Museums and Palaces

   Museu Nogueira da Silva

   The museum exhibits Portuguese and foreign painting, porcelain, faience, sculpture, tapestries, azulejos, silverware and ivory.
   
   Telephone: +351 253 601 275
   Fax: +351 253 264 036
   E-mail: sec@mns.uminho.pt
   Website: http://www.mns.uminho.pt
   

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   Museums and Palaces

   Museu da Região Flaviense

   The mission of the Flavian Region Museum, in Chaves, is to raise public awareness of the richness of Flavian culture, and it is dedicated to preserving and enhancing its historical heritage.Established in 1929, the museum has been located in various (...)

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   Museums and Palaces

   Centro de Arte Contemporânea Graça Morais

   Opened in 2008, the Graça Morais Contemporary Art Centre was designed by Souto Moura, the well-known Portuguese architect who was named the 2011 Pritsker Prize laureate. It offers a wide program of temporary exhibitions of the most respected (...)
   
   Telephone: +351 373 302 410
   Fax: +351 273 202 416
   E-mail: centro.arte@cm-braganca.pt
   Website: http://centroartegracamorais.cm-braganca.pt
   

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    Museums and Palaces

    Paço dos Duques de Bragança

    The construction of the palace of the Dukes of Bragança, its design inspired by that of the typical French manor houses, was begun in the early 15th century. It was commissioned by D. Afonso de Barcelos, the first duke of Bragança and the bastard (...)
    
    Telephone: +351 253 412 273
    E-mail: pduques@museusemonumentos.pt
    Website: https://pacodosduques.gov.pt/
    

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