{"id":2150,"date":"2015-07-15T17:11:04","date_gmt":"2015-07-16T00:11:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aletaslab.com\/?p=2150"},"modified":"2015-07-20T11:07:28","modified_gmt":"2015-07-20T18:07:28","slug":"braga-portugal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aletaslab.com\/?p=2150","title":{"rendered":"Braga, Portugal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Braga, the third largest city in Portugal, is\u00a0known for its concentration of religious architecture.\u00a0We visited <strong>Santuario do Bom Jesus do Monte<\/strong>,\u00a0a hilltop pilgrimage site just outside the city. We drove to the top, rather than climb the 18th century double staircase, on our knees, as true pilgrims might.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Back in old town Braga, we\u00a0spent time in\u00a0&#8220;St Barbara&#8217;s&#8221; Garden, outside the\u00a0Pa\u00e7o Arquiepiscopal Bracarense assembly house.<\/p>\n<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-2150 gallery-columns-2 gallery-size-full'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/aletaslab.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/P7145654.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"446\" height=\"640\" src=\"https:\/\/aletaslab.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/P7145654.jpg\" class=\"attachment-full size-full\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/aletaslab.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/P7145654.jpg 446w, https:\/\/aletaslab.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/P7145654-209x300.jpg 209w\" sizes=\"auto, 100vw\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure 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third largest city in Portugal, is&nbsp;known for its concentration of religious architecture.&nbsp;We visited Santuario do Bom Jesus do Monte,&nbsp;a hilltop pilgrimage site just outside the city. We drove to the top, rather than climb the 18th century double staircase, on our knees, as true pilgrims might. Back in old town Braga, we&nbsp;spent time &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/aletaslab.com\/?p=2150\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Braga, Portugal&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2150","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-europe","category-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aletaslab.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2150","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aletaslab.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aletaslab.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aletaslab.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aletaslab.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2150"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/aletaslab.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2150\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2213,"href":"https:\/\/aletaslab.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2150\/revisions\/2213"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aletaslab.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aletaslab.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aletaslab.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}