Miranda do Douro is one of but the beautiful cities of the north of Portugal. In addition to the wealth of his History and its culture, Miranda do Douro offers surroundings I magnify with his preserved landscapes.
From principles of century II, Watched do Douro already he had great admirers, like Alfonso Enriques, who outside first king of Portugal. Such era the fascination that produced east landscape to him that ended up revealing against its neighbors the Spaniards, fortified its dominions and began its unstoppable conquest by the Lusitania. Since then, Miranda do Douro in spite of to have suffered other many confrontations has risen one and thousand times doing to always be worth his envied peculiarities.
Miranda do Douro shows the own character of a small town although history granted the title to him of city. This appointment was product of the rivalries that maintained the hierarchies ecclesiastical of Miranda and Braganza. Of those quarrels still the praise of its neighbors listens to Miranda when they affirm that “sacristía is in Braganza but the Cathedral is in Miranda. The others, astute and jealous, respond: “if you go to Miranda, it sees the Cathedral and vuélvete house.
But it is not sufficient to him with his Cathedral. Its history also remembers in the contemplation of the ruins of the episcopal palace, today transformed into a coffee. Less interesting they are not the medieval facades that are throughout the well-known Rua de Costanilha, the medieval bridge under which runs the timid White Fresno river or the Fonte two, that follows there from century XVIII.