Museum of the Abbot of Baçal
A visit to the Museum of the Abbot of Baçal is a must see in the city and most recommended. It's housed in the old Episcopal Palace of Bragança (declared a Property of Public Interest in 1986) opposite the rear facade of the Church of San Vicente. The museum is huge (13 rooms on 2 floors) and displays religious, social, political, economic and artistic history of northeast transmontano. There's a room dedicated to the transmontano region, two other rooms of archeology and others for numismatics, decorative arts, ceramics and twentieth century paintings. But most rooms display religious art, with objects from the spoliation of the episcopal palace and chapel (jewelry, paintings and sculpture from the fifteenth-eighteenth centuries, furniture, etc.).
