Jardim de Santa Bárbara

Laid out in the seventeenth century beside the medieval archbishop's palace in central Braga, this walled garden is famous for its elaborate flowerbeds, whose colourful geometric plantings are renewed with the seasons against a backdrop of granite walls. A central fountain topped by a statue of Saint Barbara gives the garden its name. The Gothic and Romanesque windows of the old palace loom picturesquely above the blooms, and the surrounding lanes brim with cafés. It remains one of the city's most photographed corners.