Portugal Travel Guía

In your visit to Coimbra it will surprise Rossio meets in the Length do a park that is already an attraction, not only for the smallest, as its name indicates, but also it serves as attraction for more the biggest, known like Portugal two Pequeninos. This park, work of the Teacher Bissaya Barreto and the architect Cassiano Branco, is one of the thematic parks devoted to the most visited children of the country. But as we were already saying to you, not only it will do the delights of the smallest, but also the adults can enjoy the magic of visiting a representation of the monuments and buildings more typical of the country.

The park is placed in the Length do Rossio, in Santa Clara and is provided with three different areas:

• The first part, constructed between 1939 and 1940. This part is composed by a reproduction of the most typical Portuguese regional houses. You will be able to visit lots scales of After Or Mounts and Minho, typical houses of the region, as copies of the monuments most representative of the city of Coimbra, which also are in this first section.
• The second space includes “monumental area”, where you will find reproductions of the most representative monuments from the north to the south of the country. Between the monuments to be emphasized, we find the copy of Christ's Convent in Taking.
• The third part of the park ended at the end of the 50s, and it composes an ethnographic and monumental representation of those African countries of Portuguese official language, as well as of Brazil, Macau and the India. Likewise we find representations of the regions of Madeira and of the Azores.

This way, without going out of Coimbra, you will be able to do a trip for the monuments, customs and traditions of the country and of its ancient colonies, transporting you from one place to other of a magic way across its mock-ups. An appointment that you must not get lost in your visit to Coimbra.