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The town of Braganca is found in the region of the same name in the most northeastern corner of Portugal. Called Iuliobriga by the ancient Romans, the town sits on a hillside that looks over the Rio Sabor river valley, offering some wonderful views of the river and the landscape beyond. The town is the cultural and industrial core of the surrounding district, which is mostly filled with farms.
The town is famous as the home of the House of Braganca, the royal family that reigned in Portugal from 1640 to 1910 and in Brazil from 1822 to 1889. The fact that the town housed nobility means that there are a number of Renaissance mansions in the lower area of the town that feature grand facades. The medieval area of town is found in the upper area of Braganca, because when it was built it was important to have a strategically defensible position. The old town’s fortified walls still stand imposingly, with an impressive depth of more than six feet.
