Travel Reference
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GNRation
(
www.gnration.pt
; Praça Conde de Agrolongo; 10am-6.30pm)
Braga's new cultural centre lives inside
an 18th-century building that once housed police headquarters. Enter through the modern
entrance with a glass sliding door and you're inside an incubator of the city's creative in-
dustry, with concerts, film screenings, workshops and theatre performances.
CULTURAL CENTRE
Museu dos Biscainhos
(Rua dos Biscainhos; admission €2, Sun morning free; 10am-12.15pm & 2-5.30pm Tue-Sun)
An 18th-century
aristocrat's palace is now home to the enthusiastic municipal museum, with a nice collec-
tion of Roman relics and 17th-to-19th-century pottery and furnishings. The palace itself is
the reason to come, with its polychrome, chestnut-panelled ceilings and 18th-century
azulejos
depicting hunting scenes. The ground floor is paved with deeply ribbed flag-
stones on which carriages would have once rattled through to the stables .
MUSEUM
Praça da República
SQUARE
The cafes and restaurants on this broad plaza are a pleasant place to start or finish your
day. An especially mellow atmosphere descends in the evening, when coloured lights ap-
pear and people of all ages congregate to enjoy the night air.
The square-shaped, crenulated tower behind the cafes is the walled-up
Torre de Menagem
dieval palace.
Museu da Imagem
MUSEUM
(Campo das Hortas 35-37; 11am-7pm Tue-Fri, 2.30-6pm Sat & Sun)
A minimalist, ancient and
beautiful stone relic, outfitted tastefully with steel and wood stairs, shows off impeccably
lit, international photography exhibits on three floors.
Jardim de Santa Bárbara
GARDEN
