Braga Romana Sightseeing tour - visual reduced mobility
Braga Romana Sightseeing tour
We intend to create an alternative vision of intangible cultural heritage of the city of Braga, suggesting a sightseeing tour to the festivities of the Braga Romana. This sightseeing tour was developed with the support of participants with reduced mobility that identified the architectural (visual) barriers found in different places suggested.
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Suggested sightseeing tour for Visual impairment
Roman Braga - 2016
Roman Braga - 2015
Pio XII Museum
(museum tactile tour - Roman collection)
The Pio XII museum was founded in 1957 by Luciano Afonso dos Santos Canon, in the Santiago seminar facilities. It began as a Museum of Archaeology. Then they went gathering other collections (sculpture, painting, textiles, jewelery, liturgical ornaments, coins ...). The spaces for the museum were tight. The collections were poorly packed, the building did not provide the required conditions such as maintenance and security. One part of the estate was showing signs of these unsuitable circumstances. Where the museum was installed, there was one medieval tower, part oh the medieval wall, which still remain and had inspired security to the city of the Archbishops during centuries. In 1984, the painter Henrique Medina, famous landscape and portrait painter above all, natural of Esposende, donated to Braga archdiocese 52 paintings and 21 drawings. Between the end of the XX century and the beginning of the XXI century, the seminary was completely refurbished. For the Museum was designed an entire wing, properly insulated.
Authorship: The director of the Museum, Canon José Paulo Leite Abreu
Localization: Largo de S. Tiago
Accessibility
Outside access:
- Parking: Yes
- Footway: Yes
- Ramps: Yes (with some inclination)
- Exterior floor: granite
Inside access:
- Counter and ticket office: Yes
- Sanitary facilities: Yes
- Moving inside: Yes
Sound of Sé
(Shop selling Viola braguesa - tactile and audible visit to instruments)
The sound of Sé See rises in the center of Braga city, transit point for thousands of tourists every day, where they discover the culture and the music of the city. In our store we have conventional instruments such as classical and electric guitars, traditional instruments such as ukuleles, braguesas and accessories for all instruments. There we can go and discover a youthful and modern environment, try the instruments and give talent shows.
Authorship: Shop owner
Start at 2 minutes and 55 seconds
Localization: Street Dom Paio Mendes nº 77,
4700-424 Braga
Accessibility
Outside access:
- Parking: Yes
- Footway: não (it is located in the pedestrian zone)
- Ramps: no
- Exterior floor: parallel
Inside access:
- Counter and ticket office: not applicable
- Sanitary facilities: no
- Moving inside: reduced
Exterior of the Cathedral of Braga
(Touch visit to the Cathedral of Braga (front) and model printed in high relief)
Sé of Braga Cathedral
The building rests on the foundations of an old market or Roman temple dedicated to Isis. The Cathedral of Santa Maria Braga, Portugal’s mother of devotion to the Virgin, is regarded as a center for episcopal irradiation and one of the most important temples of the Portuguese Romanesque. Its history dates back to the work of the first bishop, D. Pedro de Braga, corresponding to the restoration of the Episcopal Cathedral in 1070, which did not retain traces. The Cathedral of Braga is an extraordinary example of the religious heritage of the city. Here gather many chapels and tombs of several personalities who were part of the history of Braga and Portugal. In this cathedral are the tombs of Henrique de Borgonha and his wife, Teresa of León, the earls of Portucalense County, parents of D. Afonso Henriques.
Coordinates: 41° 32′ 59" N, 8° 25′ 38" O
Street D. Paio Mendes, 4700-424 Braga
Accessibility reduced motor mobility
Outside access:
- Parking: Yes
- Footway: Yes
- Ramps: Yes
- Exterior floor: granite
Inside access:
- Counter and ticket office: Yes
- Sanitary facilities: Yes
- Moving inside: Yes / n the church to the High Altar
Military Camp Roman
At the time of Roman Braga, (tactile visit to the Roman camp: can feel the guns, vests and other equipment that the legionaries used in Ancient Rome)
Localization: Largo do Paço, Street Nossa Senhora do Leite, nº7 - 3º
Acessibilidade
Outside access:
- Parking: Yes
- Footway: no (it is located in the pedestrian zone)
- Ramps: not applicable
- Exterior floor: paralelo
Inside access:
- Counter and ticket office: not applicable
- Sanitary facilities: no
- Moving inside: Yes
Author: ADOC
Project co-financed by the EVS - European Voluntary Service, Erasmus+ Programme, Youth in Action European Commission.
The information contained in this publication is ADOC responsability, the European Commission is not responsible for any use which may be made.
Supported by INR, I.P funding program for projects
