Braga - Archbishop's Palace

(Local Name: Antigo Paço Episcopal) About 150m/164yd along the Rua de Souto stands the former Archbishop's Palace, the Antigo Paço Episcopal, fronting a little square with a pretty fountain (1723). The Palace is made up of three ranges of buildings dating from the 14th-17th C.; these now house the District Archives and one of the finest old libraries in Portugal, with more than 300,000 volumes and over 10,000 valuable manuscripts, the earliest dating from the ninth C.