Portugal Travel Guía

The University is one of the most ancient of Europe, and its monumental ancient buildings and its history are an attraction for the thousands of tourists who are going to visit it from all parts of the world.

Of echo, the life of está city is intimately related to the students. since they are these those who cheer the city up with its such celebrations as the Festa it gives Hot punch you give Fitas in May, a celebration that every year realizes to celebrate the end of the academic course. To be able to appreciate the beauty of this city it is advisable to cover its streets walking. As there says a typical Fado sung by the students this city “a long stay is deserved”.

Coimbra splits into two different areas:

• The High one: It is the most ancient part, to which one gains access to turn delArco of Almedina, an entry that reminds to us the epoch of the Arab occupations, epoch in which “medina“ was meaning city. The high part of the city is composed by narrow and staggered streets, where there are the famous "Republics", students' residences that have turned into the whole institution, or where we can find the same way important buildings as I Know Velha (the Old Cathedral), I know There Nongoes (the New Cathedral), the University and the Palace of Sub-Ripas, of which header to emphasize its portal manuelino from the S. XVI and its windows of Renaissance style.
• The Fall: Near to the river, where there concentrates all the commercial activity of the city. Beyond the University, Coimbra has still much that to offer to the visitors, like its set of medieval churches. Gaining access to the old town across the Arch of Almedina, we find two well-known cathedrals as I Know Velha and Know It nongoes, named this way by its respective antiquities and, although the Piece of news dates back to the S. XVII, its antecesora is much more ancient, dated concerning 1170. As for the Old Cathedral, it is considered to be one of the most beautiful and ancient monuments of the Romanesque Portuguese. It is a question of a construction on the halfway between a church and a fortitude, crowned with battlements in one of the fronts and combining several styles, from the Romanesque, Gothic one, passing for the Renaissance man and the manierista.