Braga & Guimarães Tour

Pay only for what you enjoy!

Our guided tours aim to be a unique and personal experience, supported on our expertise: we suggest an itinerary, one or two restaurants to lunch, and the most iconic monuments and attractions to visit. But, we want you to feel free to choose your favourite restaurant, your preferred monuments! We will adapt the itinerary, whenever possible, to meet your wishes.

That is why our price does not include lunch, or the tickets to visit monuments and attractions.

Guimarães itinerary:

• Palace of the Dukes of Bragança: A majestic manor house built in the 15th century to be the residence of the Counts of Barcelos, later titled Dukes of Bragança. Shows architectural features of a fortified house and influences from northern Europe architecture. It is classified as National Monument and integrates the Portuguese Museum Network.

• Guimarães Castle: founded in 10^th century by the Countess Mumadona as a monastery, with time and as response to the frequent attacks by the Moors and Normans, it became a fortress, the primitive Castle of Guimarães. In the 12th century, Count D. Henrique and D. Teresa, after the birth of the Portuguese County, expanded it and improved its robustness.
• Historical Centre: The historical centre of Guimarães, Unesco World Heritage Site since 2001, constitutes a unique vestige of a particular type of city design, comprising a succession of squares and a particular type of construction, fully erected with traditional techniques.
• Praça de Santiago: In the core of the historical centre , this very old square, mentioned over time in several documents, still preserves its medieval atmosphere. Its name came from a legend, where  the apostle St. Tiago (St. James) brought  and placed an image of the Blessed Virgin Mary.
• Lunch: free time for lunch on a typical restaurant.
• Trip To Braga

Braga itinerary:

• Cathedral of Braga: this was the first Portuguese cathedral, erected at the end of the 11th century, several decades before the founding of the country. Competing in power with the Cathedral of Santiago de Compostela and is the jewel of the city. Displaying styles from the original Romanesque, Baroque, Gothic and Gothic-Flemish styles, it preserves within valuables artistic relics, of its more than nine centuries of history.
• Cathedral’s Treasure Museum: where, among many others treasures, we may see the cross of the first mass celebrated in Brazil, led by Pedro Álvares Cabral.
• Historical Centre: free time to wander trough the zone.
•  Shrine of Bom Jesus do Monte: UNESCO World Cultural Heritage since 08 July 2019. The baroque language is predominant in the temple, although there are evidences of the Rococo and Neoclassical styles, as the construction lasted till 19^ths
• Return to Porto.

Notes: This attractions list is not mandatory nor exhaustive and it may be adjusted to your expectations. Besides, the itinerary may differ due to weather conditions, the time spent in each location and the guide’s criterion.

This tour is classified as Easy. Comprises some short walking routes, yet accessible for those with limited mobility;

Not accessible by wheelchair at some buildings /locations. Panoramic ride is possible with collapsible wheelchairs, however the passenger may need someone’s assistance.