• Get in
• Get around
• See
• Do
• Buy
• Eat
• Drink
• Sleep
• Get out

Braga is a city in the Cavado valley, Minho region of Northern Portugal. It is the fifth largest city in Portugal,after Lisbon,Porto,Amadora and Vila Nova de Gaia.It is an ancient and modern city,one of the most important Archdiocese.

Its university is called Universidade do Minho, and it is around 30 years old. It is very new but it has a medium size campus area with lots of bars and cheap restaurants around it.

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Train/Braga station.Or better yet the bus.Yes,indeed,take the bus if you wish to visit to be in the city center.Braga train is within the city limits,but not in the city centre.Train is ok if you are willig to take a taxicab to the city centre. There are several buscompanies operating Braga from Porto (and other cities). Normaly it´s cheaper and faster than the train + the busstation in Braga is more centrally located than the trainstation.

[edit] Get around

Transit/bus.

[edit] See

Cathedral(Se),Bom Jesus and Sameiro(Sanctueries).

[edit] Do

Visit the Sanctueries and Nacional Park of Peneda-Gerez.

[edit] Buy

Local souvenirs/ceramics of Barcelos.

[edit] Eat

With capacity for 120 people the Restaurant of the Hotel do Elevador presents a pleasant panoramic view of the city of Braga.

It offers a Traditional Kitchen of one of most important of the region. The diversity of the natural landscape and the influences received during centuries of other peoples, are elements that explains the multiplicity of the gastronomic specialities: potato and cabbage broth and bread made from maize, roast pork, the cod, the octopus and the trout, the chicken rice " pica no chão" and the duck rice, the kid and the baked heifer, the ham, the frying-pans of Braga, are some of the excellent examples.

• Panoramic Restaurant “Hotel do Elevador”, Bom Jesus do Monte, Tel: +351 253 603 400, Fax: +351 253 603 409, elevador@hoteisbomjesus.pt, [1]. There are lots of cheap restaurants around the city. But beware of ordering a full ration of roast chicken (tastes wonderful). You´ll get a mountain of chicken and potatoes (enough for three to four persons).

[edit] Drink

Spring mineral water,coffee,vinho verde/local green wine.

[edit] Sleep

You can find some cheap pensions in Rua dos Chãos (near Avenida Central and not far from the busstation)

[edit] Get out

Guimaraes,an histiric city with a castle.Barcelos,Viana do Castelo. Nearby beaches in Esposende(Fao/Ofir). Park nacional da Peneda-Gerez. Porto/Oporto