Private Tour to Coimbra from Lisbon

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You will start the visit to Coimbra at the University of Coimbra, a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Enter the Paço das Escolas. Here you find the Joanina Library, the São Miguel Chapel, the Capelos Room, the Medieval and Academic Prison, the Weapons Room, the Private Examination Room and the University Tower are located. Founded in 1290 by King D. Dinis, the University of Coimbra is the oldest Portuguese-speaking university and one of the oldest in the world. With 730 years of history, the University of Coimbra is an unavoidable institution in the history of Portugal and the entire Portuguese-speaking world, having been considered a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2013, due to its unique material and immaterial heritage, fundamental in the history of Portugal. European and world scientific culture. While leaving the University, you will follow towards SéVelha, go through the streets and medieval staircases until you reach the Historic Center and find the Praça 8 de Maio where you find the Monastery of Santa Cruz de Coimbra, National Pantheon and one of the oldest monuments of Coimbra, founded in 1131. In this Monastery are buried the first two kings of Portugal, D. Afonso Henriques and his son, D. Sancho I. This square owes its name to the day when, in 1834, liberal troops entered Coimbra. Welcomes buildings from the 16th, 17th and other centuries, with some ex-libris of the city as the Monastery of Santa Cruz. The Monastery of Santa-Clara-a-Velha, founded in 1283, by a noble lady, D. Mor Dias, and delivered to the Poor Clares shortly after. Later, he was refounded by Queen Isabel of Aragon, the Holy Queen who, when she became a widow, wore the Poor Clares’ habit Did you know that … · the city of Coimbra was the capital of Portugal for more than a century (between 1131 and 1255) ?; · Santo António, one of the most beloved saints deepened his knowledge at the Santa Cruz Monastery ?; · that there are bats in the Joanina Library and that they play a fundamental role in keeping books, as the bats eat the paper-eating insects?; · the Santa-Clara-a-Velha Monastery suffered several floods caused by the Mondego River ?; · on the left bank of the Mondego River, you will find the theme park Portugal dos Pequenitos which is divided into three spaces, according to the following themes: in the first, miniatures of regional houses and typical villages from all over the country, the second is dedicated to the most important Portuguese monuments and the last to the Portuguese former colonies. Theme-play park intended for children, but which pleases adults; · Rainha Santa Isabel is the patron saint of Coimbra? and that she always had a strong connection with the city? After being crowned queen, she went to live in Coimbra, in 1282, where she was the protagonist of the famous “Miracle of the Roses”; · it was in the Paço of the Santa-Clara-a-Velha Monastery that D. Inês de Castro lived and, later, in 1355,…

FareHarbor ID: 254337

Empresa: Estrela d’Alva Tours

Visualizações: 350

Tipo de experiência: Culture & History

Experiência: Walking Tour

Região: Center

Concelho: Coimbra

Localidade: Coimbra

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