Braga Cathedral has no named original builders. João de Castilho, a Basque architect, rebuilt the main chapel in 1509. Bishop Pedro began the cathedral, and Archbishop Diogo de Sousa commissioned the Manueline chapel. The text dates the Galilee to 1486 to 1501, matching the infobox's end of the 15th century.
The infobox calls the towers 17th-century Baroque, but the text says they were modernized in the 18th century. The timeline credits the 1089 consecration to Bernardo de Sedirac, while the text credits Bishop Pedro. The article describes Romanesque origins with Gothic, Moorish, Manueline and Baroque additions, stone rib vaulting and blue-white tiles.
The cathedral became a National Monument in 1910, an earthquake cracked the towers in 1755 and the Sacred Art Museum was created in 1930. It is an active Roman Catholic cathedral and the seat of the Archdiocese of Braga. The article gives no hours.
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