Saint Barbara Garden, Braga, Portugal

Saint Barbara Garden is named this way because of the 17th-century fountain with the image of Saint Barbara, which was brought here from a convent. The garden is close to the medieval segment of the Archiepiscopal Palace of Braga.

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Local: Braga, Portugal

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