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1. Cidadela de Bragança
Within the walls of the Cidadela, you'll find the Castelo and the Domus Municipalis (City Hall), a rare Romanesque civic building dating to the 12th century; it is always open. The nearby Igreja de Santa Maria, a church with Romanesque origins, has a superb 18th-century painted ceiling. A prehistoric granite boar, with a tall medieval stone pillory sprouting from its back, stands below the castle keep, or Torre de Menagem, which now houses the Museu Militar (€3). It displays armaments from the 12th century through World War I, but the structure itself is the main attraction, with its 108-foot-high Gothic tower, dungeons, drawbridge, turrets, battlements, and vertiginous outside staircase.
Rua da Cidadela, Bragança, Bragança, 5301-901, Portugal273 322 378 -
2. Igreja de São Bento
Outside the walls of the Citadel is this Renaissance-era church, with a fine Mudejar (Moorish-style) vaulted ceiling in the chancel, and a gilded retable. Founded in the 16th century to serve the attached monastery, it has some 18th-century additions, such as the nave's impressive trompe l'oeil ceiling. The church is usually open from around 5 pm for a couple of hours.
Rua de São Francisco, Bragança, Bragança, 5300-011, PortugalSight Details
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3. Museu do Abade de Baçal
Housed in a former bishop's palace, the Museu do Abade de Baçal is named after Francisco Manuel Alves (1865–1948), a local abbot with a deep interest in the region's history and art, who contributed to the museum's creation. Its collections includes archaeological discoveries such as boar-shaped fertility symbols, tombstones with pinwheel patterns, and ancient coins.
Rua Abílio Beça 27, Bragança, Bragança, 5300-011, Portugal273 331 595Sight Details
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4. Museu Ibérico da Máscara e do Traje
If you can't make your visit to the region coincide with one of the festivals in which local lads wearing wooden masks roam the streets, the Museu Ibérico da Máscara e do Traje is definitely worth a visit. A joint Portuguese-Spanish initiative, it has displays on the celebrations in villages across Trás-os-Montes and across the border in Zamora. The many costumes on show are riotously colorful and the masks strikingly carved. Information in English is available.
Rua D. Fernando O Bravo 24–26, Bragança, Bragança, 5300-025, Portugal273 381 008Sight Details
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5. Parque Natural de Montesinho
These 185,000 acres of rolling hills are one of the most remote, least developed areas of the country. It's home to a growing population of Iberian wolves, which you're not likely to see except on a guided nature tour. In the villages that dot the park, some ancient traditions survive. Rio de Onor, right on the Spanish border, has traditional dwellings where livestock inhabit the ground floor and humans live one story up, warmed by the animals' body heat in cold winter months. The Montesinho Natural Park website has information on how to visit and stay in the area, but not on all hiking trails, so stop in at the Bragança tourist office for maps.
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