Consecrated to St. John the Baptist, this church is the birthplace of Braga's emblematic St. John's Festival.
See more +Tread on and lived in by countless archbishops, the Paço Arquiepiscopal de Braga is one of the city's most emblematic monuments and, at the same time, one of the most closely linked to the city's history, from the Middle Ages to modern times. There were four major phases of the monument's construction, which are still clearly visible today. The main one, and the one with the greatest impact, is the Gothic one, conferred on Archbishops Gonçalo Pereira and Fernando da Guerra.
The building is now the Braga Public Library.
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It is a remarkable example of Portuguese medieval Gothic architecture.
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