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Extract from the Braga Travel Guides:
BRAGA
, the tourist office pamphlet claims, is Portugal's answer to Rome. This clearly is going over the top - though it illustrates the city's ecclesiastical pretensions. Founded by the Romans in 279 BC, Braga was a bishopric before being occupied by the Moors. It was reconquered early in the eleventh century and by the end of the century its archbishops were pressing for recognition as "Primate of the Spains", a title they disputed with Toledo over the next six centuries. It is still Portugal's religious capital - the scene of spectacular
Easter celebrations
with torchlit processions and weirdly hooded penitents...
read the whole Braga Travel Guides...
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