4 Best Things to do in Braganca

  • Museu Militar

    Museum located within the keep of Bragança castle. Exhibits include medieval armour, 20th century guns and even art from the colonies

  • Braganca Castle

    Braganca Castle
    Braganca Castle

    13th century citadel surrounded by 15 towers. In the centre is the 33 metre high keep, the Torre de Menagem

  • Igreja de Santa Maria

    Igreja de Santa Maria - Braganca
    Igreja de Santa Maria
    IPPA/Antonio Sacchetti

    Small whitewashed 18th century church located within the walls of Braganca castle. Best known for its vivid depiction of the Assumption on its barrel-shaped ceiling

  • Domus Municipalis

    Domus Municipalis - Braganca
    Domus Municipalis - Braganca
    IPPA/Antonio Sacchetti

    Classified as a national monument, nobody is quite sure what this unusual 12th century building was for! Built in a Romanesque style the building forms an irregular pentagon with a subterranean vaulted cistern

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Braganca travel guide »

The name of the region of which Bragança is the capital belies its nature, being that Tras-os-Montes, quite literally 'behind the mountains', is easily the most remote part of mainland Portugal, if not western Europe. Here, ancient stone houses still cluster in small villages that seem unaffected by the speed and complexities of modern life, rich traditional dishes still fill the bellies of hard…