braga bautura Archives - ToursMaps.com ® http://toursmaps.com/tag/braga-bautura Mon, 05 Dec 2016 22:40:05 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.0.9 BRAGA http://toursmaps.com/braga.html http://toursmaps.com/braga.html#respond Thu, 12 Jan 2017 17:10:00 +0000 http://toursmaps.com/?p=227591 BRAGA Braga (pop. 160,000) originally served as the capital of a region founded by Celtic tribes in 300 BC. The city’s beautiful gardens, plazas, museums, and markets earned it the nickname Portuguese Rome. In Portugal’s oldest cathedral, the treasury showcases the archdiocese’s most precious paintings and relics, including a collection of cofres cranianos (brain boxes), one of which contains the 6th-cen-tury cortex of Sao Martinho Dume, Braga’s first bishop. (Cathedral and treasury open June-Aug. daily 8:30am-6pm; Sept.-May 8:30am-5pm. Cathedral free. Treasury ‚2.) Braga’s most famous landmark, Igreja do Bom Jesus, is actually 5km outside of town. To visit Bom Jesus,

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