The plan of the castle is an irregular Pentagon. Features a thick wall and is reinforced in every angle with a tower. Four of the five towers were restored. The main façade is torn by a round arch, which provides access, through a domed, the entrance door, with bow down inside. On the second floor there is a double-drill arcade loggia, based on oitavados and pillars in inverted cone shaped Corbels, with an arched window broken on Corbels, on each side. Has four vaulted rooms that open onto a central courtyard with cistern in half, preceded by pilasters and classicizantes …
A gate sided by two barbicans. It is one of the city's gates, built between the reigns of Dom Manuel I and Dom Filipe I. It was built together with walls, for military and safety purposes.
It’s a XVII century construction that combines the baroque and neoclassical styles. For a long time this was the main entrance to the city. On the upper part there is a feminine figure symbolizing the city of Braga.
The Aveiro’s Port Authority building is an Art Nouveau fine exemplar. This building, whose first floor was raised in 1830 over the arcades of a mill, is one of the most emblematic of the city and stands up for its superior architectonic quality. In the late XIX a second floor was built to shelter the Escola de Desenho Industrial that worked here until 1918. At this same year it was sold to a particular and that’s when the lateral azulejos panel was placed. Afew years later, in 1925, the building was sold again, this time to the Admiralty. Already in …