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September 13, 2006
Amarante to Braga and back
We went Amarante about 60km east of Porto. Main attraction in Amarante is the São Gonçalo Monastery where apparently if you kiss the tomb of São Gonçalo you'll find your soul mate within the year. A friend and I went on to kiss the tomb ... we've promised to keep in touch to see whether this is working or not, if not we're going to send abusive letters to the guide book publisher :)
Since we still had plenty of time we went ion to the pretty town of Braga. With this I completed the four cities mentioned in the old saying: "Coimbra studies, Braga prays, Lisbon shows off and Porto works". This city certainly has a lot of churches the most impressive being the Sé.
From Braga we caught the train back to Porto. This had been a full sight-seeing day, the most things I've done in a day for a while, probably since Paris.
Posted by vhadiant at September 13, 2006 01:24 PM
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