Guimarães

Guimarães is known as Portugal’s birthplace as the country’s former capital and city where Portugal’s first king, Afonso Henriques, was baptised (read about Afonso Henriques in my post A brief history of Portugal).

​You can do a day trip from Porto to Guimarães and it's possible to also visit to Braga in the same day. Of course you can stay longer, as I think Guimarães is one of the best towns to visit in Portugal if you like history and culture. It's not a big place but is very cute.
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