As a citizen of the Renaissance in Braga by Arco da Porta Nova, which was the delivery of the keys of the city. This symbolic key opens it doors for a city in its ancient monuments that guard the brightness of the power that had their bishops.

Even in Roman times, Emperor Caracalla raised Bracara Augusta the capital of the province of Galécia today Galicia.

The area of Rome succeeded to the occupation by Suevos, Visigoths and Muslims, to their conquest for Christianity in the eleventh century. Its cathedral, the oldest in the country, was the largest religious reference to Portugal and said popular "older than the Cathedral of Braga", to mention something about a long time, is illustrative of their seniority. The ecclesiastical power, so often associated in medieval time the power of the sword, extended the kingdoms of Spain and Portugal.

Braga has been enriching the monuments. In the seventeenth century, archbishop D. Diogo de Sousa, impressed with the Rome of Pope Julius II gave him the grace and decorative brilliance of the Renaissance.

Later, the exuberance of the Baroque add other buildings of great magnificence. Of all the times the city saves memories unexpected large and small, like a medieval tower in the middle of the street, windows, trellis that covered faces of women or a palace reminiscent rocaille a Louis XV commode.

In more recent times, the quality of the University and its contemporary architecture brought a youthful that filled with light, color and an unexpected modernity.

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