According to Coimbra, is to learn how to know someone, when actually, everything fits. The former Portuguese capital has everything to be a beauty. Actually.
There are places with statues, cafes around it, and 300-year-old trees. The pigeons are aggressive and in the steep streets of the old town, the yellow lantern light goes on after sunset. Coimbra is a proud world heritage site, in spite of the pigeons, and has even been the cultural capital of Europe. The University in Coimbra, is over 700 years old, the oldest in Portugal and one of the oldest and most beautiful in Europe. There is much to tell, the city has a history that is cultivated, clean, and interesting.
Attractions at the Largo da Portagem
Insider Tip Coimbra
You can’t miss Coimbra in Portugal, even if the country is for more than just a wide beach. Not a train of the national connection lines from Porto or Lisbon, is Coimbra. They all stop at the train station of Coimbra b. a Brief confusion, change, hold, and already there. What you should know? Coimbra is divided by a river, the Mondego. It rises in the Serra da Estrela and ends in Figueira da Foz, in the Atlantic ocean, belongs exclusively to the Portuguese. The city is known for its all-male singing Fado, the student life, and night plazas and stairs in black hoods will be delivered. Mood! The stairs in front of the station building down, you are attracted by the city centre already, without the need for a Smartphone to ask for directions. Easy to put on, with always open eyes.
Occur in a different time: the Astoria, the first Hotel in the city
City of love
The left Hand is presented, the Astoria, the first Hotel of the city. A monument to the Belle Époque with the proud balconies, their views will not miss any attraction of the city. To the source of the tears, Quinta das Lágrimas, you can watch. A legendary place on the other side of the river, which was by the love story of Pedro and Inês from the fountain to the source of the tears. In addition to Christiano Ronaldo, and Georgina Rodriguez, who met in a Gucci Store to know the most famous love story in the country. The Portuguese crown Prince Dom Pedro fell in love with the lady of his wedded. Pedro’s father, king Afonso IV, the not well and the mistress of his son’s murder. The tears of the Death of the legend according to the source of the tears, the food, the Mondego and the death of Inês on forever weep. The great national poet Luís de Camões described it this way: See, what a fresh source of watering the flowers, and the tears are water, and in the Name of love.
The source of the tears “Quinta das Lágrimas”
From historical ambiance to the food stalls
Such a view can of course increase the romantic pressures of a journey, were it not for the famous General, and the opposition Humberto Delgado, with his big, pathetic Talk from these balconies the air out, so the policy fits in. The rooms of the Portuguese resistance against the dictatorship of António de Oliveira Salazar’s formed since 1969. Everything in them is still so, as artists, literati, and Revolutionaries have left. Only the Minibar in the Salon has been filled. Who needs all those modernities that the world has to offer, is in the Astoria incorrectly. It is still running on the same marble, is turning the same revolving door, and look up to the neon sign. Even the scratches in the parquet floors have remained the original and the secret door in room 326 has been left in the cupboard. Takes you through the cellar directly behind the Hotel, in a narrow, dark alley, accidentally in front of the best Local in the city. Wait at the time of their escape less than ten people in front of the restaurant on a table, you should forget the flight, and a black clay pot called Chanfana do. The goat meat has simmered for four to five hours in the oven and was basted constantly with Bairrada wine. A Portuguese wine region, which is worth any risk! Apart from the occasional gastronomic highlights food in the city is not touristy and academically. Menus with pictures or a quick, cheap, and long-term adverse health effects. Many of the Restaurants sell hamburgers. It is the food of a city without the students of the Wind from the country would blow. The student life space for the other is not much life.
Students in academic costume
Study in the world heritage
The Best thing you can do in Coimbra, to study. At the best law or medicine. The faculties of thrones over the town and to require all the Students in awe of the scientific Tradition. In return, you are allowed to study in a place of interest, which belongs since 2013 to the world heritage site and the 12 Euro admission cost. Beautiful. First of all, the Biblioteca Joanina, in the 60,000 literary treasures of the country. All the ancient. And the gold foil of the Balustrade is a the Rest.
Memorial plaque for one of the most famous students of the town: Eca de Queiroz
The students live in ancient houses, in which Eça de Queiroz, Miguel Torga, and many other famous Poet lived, known outside of Portugal, hardly anyone. In the second half of the 19th century. Century transformed Camilo Castelo Branco, and Camilo Pessanha, a showcase Bohemian (talented, poor, Opium, death by tuberculosis) in the students with the literary movement Questão Coimbrã, which should spread from here all over the country offices. They brought in Fernando Pessoa, Portugal’s national poet, in Lisbon, at last, the Modern Herald. In Coimbra they were Mature always been a revolutionary early. In the eyes of his students, Portugal was at the turn of the century, only should re-ignite the violence of your thoughts only decades later, in 1958, as Delgado from those balconies voice, to overthrow Salazar and 1969, when the resistance effect began to form fully. As Coimbra was a place you came to be able to feel what it would be before the Rest of the country yet.
Always, if you think the same you fall in love with Coimbra, is there anything in the way
Coimbra’s literary heritage
Today, institutions try, as the Casa da Escrita, to be the house of the letter, the huge literary heritage of the city. With gutbürgerlichem success, however, without the revolutionary liveliness of the old days, because the device is mass-produced. It is quiet and white. Collective write. Nothing avant-garde, no Rebelliousness to on the with Sharpie on the walls lubricated exclamation sentences, or the distant sound of jazz music in the evenings from the steps of the city opens. Nevertheless, the house invites you to Think, as well as the many romantic pleasure gardens of the city invite you to Think. You can see walk of Castelo Branco and Queiroz there formally, as you have thought. And always, if one is then not far from that, there is a bus stop in the way, or a new-fangled bridge, a Danone-screen or a kebab shop, the shoves in the nostalgic depths of one’s imagination back to the present.