A city and a municipality in Braga District in the Minho Province, in the north of Portugal. The population in 2011 was 120,391. It is one of the growing municipalities in the country, and is well known by its textile and adobe industries. Originally a Roman settlement, it expanded and became the seat of the First Duke of Bragança in the 15th century. One of the most importante points of passage for pilgrims to Santiago, since Middle Age.
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Applying an Augmented Reality Tool to the Camino de Santiago in Portugal
Miguel Nuno Pereira (Minho University, Portugal), Miguel Pazos Otón (University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain), José M. Cotos (University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain), and Paula Cristina Remoaldo (Minho University, Portugal)
Copyright: © 2018
|Pages: 20
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-2927-9.ch006
Abstract
This chapter focuses on an Interactive Guide of the Portuguese Way of St. James (Camino de Santiago) created by using an Augmented Reality application. This application was developed specifically for the section of the Portuguese Route to Santiago that crosses the municipality of Barcelos (Northwest of Portugal). The Guide has the geo-information needed for the Pilgrim, in the passage by the municipality of Barcelos to Santiago, and can be accessed through a smartphone. The pilgrim will have at his or her disposal a set of interactive geo-information about Barcelos. At the level of interactivity with the user, each of these points of interest in the Guide will be signaled by a portrait done by a painter from Barcelos (monuments) and universal graphic icons (other geo-information).