Is Braga Worth Bragging About? [Portugal]

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In this video, we're giving you a brief overview of the city of Braga and telling you why it's worth spending a day there!

If you're looking for a unique day trip from Porto, be sure to check out the city of Braga! This small city is full of interesting history and culture, and it's worth a day trip to check it out! There's so much to see, you might want to spend the night!

In this video, we'll give you a brief overview of the city and tell you why you should spend a day there!

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[ValerieDaniels-Rossi]

And Chris, your shirt matches the tiles perfectly

[RafaelDiFuria]

Fun to see Braga through someone else’s eyes :)

Been living here a little more than a year and a half and absolutely love living here. Can’t say it’s for everyone, but for the people who are looking for what it has to offer it’s a great place to call home :)


Great choice of tacos place! The couple from Mexico who own/operate that place are very sweet people 😁
And great choice to check out 100° Pagina, and yes living here it’s a great place to sit and relax and get away from things and enjoy the sun in the summer.

I walk by that hotel almost every day and have been to some events there but never knew how big the rooms there were, very interesting to see!

[alexandreoliveira]

True Fun fact: when a portuguese asks to another "are you from Braga?" It means that he is upset because the other left the door open 😅

[jmlmo]

Do you know that the Braga funicular is the oldest In the world still In use ? Do you know that Braga was the capital of the germanic suevic Kingdom from 411 a d. to 585 a.d. (they came from Stuttgart area from nowadays german state of Baden Württemberg) and it was one of the oldest, if not the oldest Christian Kingdom In Europe ? And do you know that the suevic descends were the ones that originated the "Portucalense" nobles that lead them to create the Portuguese Kingdom In 1143 ? And, do you know that Braga It's not the most ancient city in Portugal ? The most ancient city, by far, is Lisbon (circa 400 years older than Rome) and founded in 1.200 b.c. by the fenicians, and it is the second oldest european capital after Athens ?

[pauloclemente]

Great video. Add to your list, Guimarães, Barcelos and Viana do Castelo.

[carminfrancisco]

I love the clips of the fountain orifice options 🤣 Braga looks like a great place to explore!

[vascoapolonio]

I love the South. It means living in a different mind set, you know! But the North is by far, the most dynamic part of the country. Braga is wonderful. Good job, again, you guys. 🎉🎉🎉

[zeitgeist]

The haircut style is called Tonsure and is a religious devotional style showing humility. Franciscan monks and other Christians wore it by shaving the area. Neat video and we really look forward to a vist to Braga for the Roman festival. The food and sites are interesting.

[alolkoydesigns]

When I worked the graveyard shift at convenience stores, around 5-6 am the party people were coming in to get their munchies and the 9-5 workers were coming in for their coffee. I was just interesting to see the culture clash

[palexa]

Next you have to come to Barcelos which is about 30 minutes - 1 hour away from Braga! It's the place of the Rooster that is so symbolic of Portugal.

[owen_dslv]

In Bom Jesus you have too try the upside down road wich is a road that's going up but when you put your car in the beginning of the road you car is going up by itself. This is a very incredible and unexpicable event which you have to try if you go in this city (you can find video of that on youtube)

[jayewhite]

So happy I found your channel! I’ve been watching for a few weeks before learning we have a friend in common- my cousin Kim Zabel. We are moving to Portugal in September and hopefully visit so many of these places. Thank you for sharing!

[pedrogoncalves]

Cool video, nice to see your enjoying Portugal, have you been to Madeira ? My home place I'm sure you would enjoy it, keep up the good work 🎉

[luiscambra]

When someone needs to say that anything is real old., then the sentence is: "That`s older than the Sé of Braga"

[fernandomanuelcruz]

Chris e Melissa, venham conhecer Coimbra, cidade dos estudantes, há muitas coisas para visitar em Coimbra mas, há três sítios incríveis que têm que visitar, 1 Igreja de Santa Cruz, aonde está o túmulo do primeiro rei de Portugal 2 Universida de Coimbra, uma das mais antigas da Europa 3 a Quinta das lágrimas, onde ocorreu a história dramática, de amor de Pedro e Inês, parecida com a história de Romeu e Julieta. Na quinta das lágrimas existe um hotel. Saude.

[jmctigret]

Ferris Bueller and Brady
Bunch references! Funny

[TomBarman]

I was born at the Palácio do Raio, it was the maternity building right next to the hospital. 😅

[oubelhaNegra]

Nice Video, congrats. When you plan to go to Aveiro zone I can give you some tips for your tour plan.

[UbuTube]

Trivia: In the north of Portugal if you enter some place and forget to close the door people might say "És de Braga'?" It means "Are you from Braga?". It's a good humoured taunt to make you close the door. The expression's origin lies in the fact that the "door" to Braga is always open (actually it isn't even there), so people who forget to close the door are assumed to be from Braga. Don't try saying this in Lisbon, very few people will understand it. I'm not sure but I don't think they say it in Braga, it's probably mostly an expression used in Porto...

[Module_L]

Portuguese lesson of the day - Bracara is pronunced the same way as Braga, with the stress in the first "a": [Brá-ga], [Brá-cara]. You pronunced it like [Bra-cára].
By the way, "página" is another example, it's not [pa-gína] like you said. The ´ accent indicates where the stress is in the word. 🙂