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Braganza District

Bragança

Bragança is a city of 35,000 people in . It is one of the oldest cities in Portugal. Domus Municipalis and the castle are the most famous monuments in this city.
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  • Type: City with 23,200 residents
  • Description: municipality in Portugal
  • Also known as: “Bragança Municipality”, “Bragança, Portugal”, and “Braganza”
Photo: José Antonio Gil Martínez, CC BY 2.0.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Museu Ibérico da Máscara e do Traje and Pillory of Bragança.

Museum
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is a museum.

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The is a 15th-century sculpted stone column with symbolic political, administrative and judicial significance, erected over a four-step octagonal platform, located in the civil parish of Sé, Santa Maria e Meixedo, municipality of Bragança.

Theater building
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is a theater building.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Samil and Castro de Avelãs.

Village
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is a civil parish in the municipality of Bragança, Portugal. The population in 2011 was 1,246, in an area of 10.25 km2.

Village
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is a civil parish in the municipality of Bragança, Portugal. The population in 2011 was 460, in an area of 13.48 km2.

Bragança

Latitude
41.8071° or 41° 48′ 26″ north
Longitude
-6.759° or 6° 45′ 32″ west
Population
23,200
Elevation
664 metres (2,178 feet)
IATA airport code
BGC
United Nations Location Code
PT BGC
Open location code
8CHMR64R+RC
Open­Street­Map ID
node 25254935
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
2742027
Wiki­data ID
Q768261
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Welsh—“Bragança” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “براغانزا”
  • Arabic: “براغانسا”
  • Arabic: “برغنسا”
  • Arabic: “برغنسة”
  • Arabic: “بَرغَنسة”
  • Asturian: “Bergancia”
  • Asturian: “Braganza”
  • Basque: “Bragantza”
  • Belarusian: “Браганса”
  • Bengali: “ব্রাগাঙ্কা”
  • Bengali: “ব্রাগান্সা”
  • Breton: “Bragança”
  • Bulgarian: “Браганса”
  • Catalan: “Bragança”
  • Cebuano: “Bragança Municipality”
  • Cebuano: “Bragança”
  • Chechen: “Браганса (Португали)”
  • Chechen: “Браганса”
  • Chinese: “Bragança”
  • Chinese: “布拉干萨”
  • Chinese: “布拉干薩”
  • Czech: “Bragança”
  • Danish: “Braganca”
  • Danish: “Bragança”
  • Dutch: “Braganca (Portugal)”
  • Dutch: “Braganca”
  • Dutch: “Bragança”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “براجانزا”
  • Esperanto: “Bragança”
  • Finnish: “Bragança”
  • French: “Bragança”
  • French: “Bragance”
  • Galician: “Bragança”
  • Galician: “Braganza”
  • Georgian: “ბრაგანსა”
  • German: “Bragança”
  • Greek: “Μπραγκάντσα”
  • Gujarati: “બ્રગાન્સા”
  • Hebrew: “ברגנסה”
  • Hindi: “बर्गंसा”
  • Hindi: “ब्रगान्का, पुर्तगाल”
  • Hungarian: “Braganca”
  • Hungarian: “Bragança”
  • Indonesian: “Bragança, Portugal”
  • Irish: “Bragança”
  • Italian: “Braganza”
  • Japanese: “ブラガンサ”
  • Kannada: “ಬ್ರಾಗಂಚಾ”
  • Kannada: “ಬ್ರಾಗಾಂಕಾ”
  • Korean: “브라간사”
  • Latin: “Brigantia”
  • Latvian: “Bragansa”
  • Lithuanian: “Bragansa”
  • Lombard: “Braganza (Portogall)”
  • Lombard: “Braganza”
  • Luxembourgish: “Bragança”
  • Macedo-Romanian: “Bragança”
  • Malay: “Braganca”
  • Marathi: “ब्रगांसा”
  • Marathi: “ब्रागांसा”
  • Mazanderani: “براگانچا”
  • Mazanderani: “براگانسا”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Bragança”
  • Mingrelian: “ბრაგანსა”
  • Mirandese: “Bergança”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Braganca”
  • Norwegian: “Bragança”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Bragança (Portugal)”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Bragança”
  • Persian: “براگانسا”
  • Polish: “Bragança”
  • Portuguese: “Bragança”
  • Portuguese: “Município de Bragança”
  • Romanian: “Bragança”
  • Russian: “Браганса”
  • Russian: “Браганца”
  • Scots: “Bragança, Portugal”
  • Scots: “Bragança”
  • Serbian: “Браганса”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Bragança”
  • Sinhala: “බ්‍රගැන්සා”
  • Slovenian: “Bragança”
  • Spanish: “Bragança”
  • Spanish: “Braganza”
  • Swedish: “Bragança”
  • Tamil: “பிரகங்க”
  • Tamil: “பிரகன்க்கா”
  • Tatar: “Браганса (Португалия)”
  • Tatar: “Браганса”
  • Telugu: “బ్రాగాంకా”
  • Thai: “บรากังซา”
  • Turkish: “Bragança”
  • Ukrainian: “Bragance”
  • Ukrainian: “Браганса”
  • Urdu: “براگانسا، پرتگال”
  • Vietnamese: “Bragança, Bồ Đào Nha”
  • Vietnamese: “Braganca”
  • Vietnamese: “Bragança”
  • Volapük: “Bragança”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Bragança, Portugal”
  • Welsh: “Bragança”
  • “Bragança”

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