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Igreja dos Terceiros de São Francisco
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Largo São Francisco, 1930
4700-307, Braga
Church with an imposing baroque front and cross shaped fronton. Inside are worthy of notice the dome-shaped ceiling in stone and golden woodcarving and, on the main altar, the walls covered with glazed tiles.
Igreja de Santa Eulália de Tenões
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Rua de Santa Eulália, 59
4715-068, Braga
Small church with an arched doorway and a tympanum, showing a Malta Cross. At the churchyard there’s a small bell tower.
Igreja e Edifício do Hospital de São Marcos
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Rua de São Bentinho, 21
4700-308, Braga
Baroque building dated from the XVIII century. On top of the building there are eight images representing martyrs and Apostles, by Carlos Amarante.
Igreja da Misericórdia de Braga
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Rua Dom Diogo de Sousa, 124
4700-422, Braga
XVI century construction, renaissant style. On the doorway there’s a sculpture subordinated to the Visitation theme. Inside, the nave covering and the retable stand out.
Igreja Paroquial de São Victor
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Rua de São Domingos, 4
4710-439, Braga
It was rebuilt in the XVII, at the place where a Romanic temple used to be. It was the first church thought to be covered with baroque glazed tiles, being the richest building of this kind in Braga.
Convento de Nossa Senhora do Carmo
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Travessa do Carmo
4700-268, Braga
The Convent and the church were built in the middle of the XVII century. The glazed tiles are from the XIX century and the present front is modernist (1907). Inside are worthy of notice the baroque woodcarving, the neoclassical retable and glazed tiles. Near this place are the ruins of the ancient Caridade chapel, from the XVII century.
Igreja e Convento do Pópulo
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Praça Conselheiro Torres Almeida, 113
4700-312, Braga
This monument invokes the Virgin venerated at the Santa Maria do Pópulo Church., in Rome. Built in the end of the XVI century, the building suffered some changes in the XVIII century. The neoclassical front is sided by two chapels and inside are worthy of notice the glazed tiles and the golden woodcarving.
Mosteiro de São Martinho de Tibães
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Rua do Mosteiro, 59
4700-565, Braga
Ancient Benedictine monastery, whose present ensemble dates from the XVIII century. The monastery has four cloisters and the most important is decorated with azulejos and a granite fountain at the centre. The church has beautiful golden woodcarving works.
Igreja de São Vicente
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Rua de São Vicente, 232
4710-312, Braga
Built in the XVII century, this church guards the most ancient Christian monument in Braga: a stone at the sacristy claimed to be from the VII century, originally from a Visigothic Temple.
Capela de Nossa Senhora da Torre
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Largo de São Paulo, 14
4700-042, Braga
The chapel was built between 1756 and 1759. There’s an oratory, at the base of the Santiago Tower, dedicated to Nossa Senhora da Ponte, for saving the city at the 1755’s earthquake.