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3 unusual facts about Bragança


Bragantino Clube do Pará

Bragantino Clube do Pará, commonly known as Bragantino, is a Brazilian football team based in Bragança, Pará state.

Lobeznos

The village is 3.5 km away from Puebla de Sanabria and is located on the highway linking this town to Bragança in Portugal.

Rihonor de Castilla

It is 14 km from Puebla de Sanabria, 21 km from Pedralba de la Pradería, and 22 km from Bragança.


Chedid

Estádio Nabi Abi Chedid, football (soccer)) stadium in Bragança Paulista, São Paulo state, Brazil

David de Castro Tartas

David was one of three sons of Portuguese "New Christians" who had escaped from Bragança, and settled, under the Catholic names Cristóvão Luís and Isabel da Paz in the French town of Tartas.

Francisco de Moraes

Born in Bragança, he served as personal secretary to the Portuguese ambassador in France, and composed, during two voyages to Paris (1540 and 1546), a chivalric romance called Palmerin d’Angleterre (Palmeirim de Inglaterra; Palmerin of England), a "spin-off" of the popular Amadis de Gaula series.

Gaita transmontana

Muitos defendem que o termo gaita mirandesa seja um tanto impreciso, visto que a cidade de Miranda do Douro é apenas uma pequena região do território tido como Trás-os-montes, por onde o instrumento está tradicionalmente disseminado, sobretudo nas comarcas de Vinhais, Bragança, Miranda e Mogadouro.

Monforte, Portugal

In 1455, the Villa of Monforte entered in the ownership of the territorial domain of Bragança's House, through the donation done by D. Afonso V to the count of Arraiolos.

Taxis-Bordogna-Valnigra

The descendants of Lamoral, Baron Taxis di Bordogna e Valnigra (1900–1966) from his marriage to Princess Theresia Christiane of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (1902–1990), daughter of Prince August Leopold of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha and his wife Archduchess Karoline Marie of Austria, are known by the family name Tasso de Saxe-Coburgo e Bragança.


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