What to do · Guimarães
Bom Jesus do Monte sanctuary and its water funicular, in Braga
Information
- Duration
- 2 h
- Season
- All year
- Who it's for
- Everyone; the funicular saves you the stairway
On the outskirts of Braga, about 30 km from Guimarães, the sanctuary of Bom Jesus do Monte, a World Heritage Site, is climbed by a zigzag Baroque stairway with fountains and chapels of the Stations of the Cross. If you do not want to climb it, the 1882 funicular, the first in the Iberian Peninsula, covers 116 m of height difference over 267 m of track and still runs on a water counterbalance: it is the oldest in the world in service with that system. Go up by funicular and come down on foot by the stairs.
As a familyWith teenagers
