{"id":5332,"date":"2017-12-03T21:41:13","date_gmt":"2017-12-03T19:41:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/maponmyplate.com\/?p=5332"},"modified":"2017-12-03T21:41:13","modified_gmt":"2017-12-03T19:41:13","slug":"5332","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maponmyplate.com\/?p=5332","title":{"rendered":"climbing 600 steps &#8211; capital of church in Braga &#8211; Portugal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">A short trainride away from Porto, <strong>Braga<\/strong> is perfect for a day trip. It is the &#8220;capital&#8221; of the Catholic Church in Portugal, featuring the oldest cathedral in Portugal and a lot of other churches.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_5334\" style=\"width: 400px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/maponmyplate.com\/?attachment_id=5334\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-5334\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5334\" class=\"wp-image-5334\" src=\"https:\/\/maponmyplate.files.wordpress.com\/2017\/09\/1709_porto_braga_01.jpg?w=500\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"600\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-5334\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">stained glass<\/p><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">First, a quick detour by bus to <strong>Bom Jesus<\/strong>, a religious sanctuary with a total of almost 600 steps to the very top. Beautiful symmetrical architecture and flat white surfaces. The integrated fountains dedicated to the five senses are a bit creepy, though. Water tubes stuck in both eyes and water coming out of ears&#8230;yeah, just great.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_5335\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/maponmyplate.com\/?attachment_id=5335\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-5335\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5335\" class=\"wp-image-5335\" src=\"https:\/\/maponmyplate.files.wordpress.com\/2017\/09\/1709_porto_braga_02.jpg?w=750\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"401\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-5335\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bom Jesus and its steps<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_5336\" style=\"width: 400px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/maponmyplate.com\/?attachment_id=5336\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-5336\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5336\" class=\"wp-image-5336\" src=\"https:\/\/maponmyplate.files.wordpress.com\/2017\/09\/1709_porto_braga_03.jpg?w=500\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"600\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-5336\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">almost there<\/p><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">Back in Braga, a quick visit to the<strong> Raio Palace<\/strong> with a temporary baroque painting collection before finally making it to the <strong>cathedral<\/strong>. I recommend getting the guided tour (which features a guy opening hidden doors with old-fashioned keys and showing you to the upper choir). Just the close-up view of the two (!) organs covered in figurines and gold (again) is well worth the \u20ac2 tour.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_5337\" style=\"width: 400px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/maponmyplate.com\/?attachment_id=5337\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-5337\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5337\" class=\"wp-image-5337\" src=\"https:\/\/maponmyplate.files.wordpress.com\/2017\/09\/1709_porto_braga_04.jpg?w=500\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"600\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-5337\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Raio Palace &#8211; Blue Palace<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_5338\" style=\"width: 400px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/maponmyplate.com\/?attachment_id=5338\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-5338\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5338\" class=\"wp-image-5338\" src=\"https:\/\/maponmyplate.files.wordpress.com\/2017\/09\/1709_porto_braga_05.jpg?w=500\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"600\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-5338\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Braga Cathedral and two beautiful organs<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_5339\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/maponmyplate.com\/?attachment_id=5339\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-5339\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5339\" class=\"wp-image-5339\" src=\"https:\/\/maponmyplate.files.wordpress.com\/2017\/09\/1709_porto_braga_06.jpg?w=750\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-5339\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">looking up<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:right;\">September 23rd 2017<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5333,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[97,151,156,206,295,931,960,1239],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maponmyplate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5332"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maponmyplate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maponmyplate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maponmyplate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maponmyplate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5332"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maponmyplate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5332\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maponmyplate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maponmyplate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maponmyplate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maponmyplate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}