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![Faculdade de Letras]()
Faculdade de Letras
The University of Coimbra is very famous for its tradition and history. It is the biggest university in Portugal and it has more than 20 thousand students. There are many well known courses teached there, but one of the most well known colleges is Faculdade de Letras....
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Praça 8 de maio
Portuguese and spanish cities are known for its squares, big open air places where people gather to chat, eat and observe their town. Squares usually have churches or important buildings, such as the Major office, some trees, benches and even monuments Praça 8 de maio...
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Escadas do Quebra Costas
During the middle age, cities used to be built on difficult places to access, such as cliffs or next to rivers hard to cross. Coimbra was built on top of a mountain, and, in the highest point, you can find the most important part of the city, with the university, old...
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![Colégio de São Jerônimo]()
Colégio de São Jerônimo
The University of Coimbra is one of the oldest in Europe and it has grown a lot through its 800 years of history. Nowadays it has three campus and more than 20 thousand students, but the main campus is the biggest (in number of students), the most famous and the most...
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Arco da Almedina
A long time ago Coimbra was a medieval city, with a castle, city walls, kings, princesses, soldiers, and village where commoners would live and work. This can still be seen by the narrow street and old monuments in town, but the nobles and the wall has vanished. Still,...
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Capela de São Miguel
The University of Coimbra is a very traditional college, and that includes religious and historic tradition. Evidence of that is the Capela de São Miguel, a private chapel dedicated to the students and the academic community. The chapel is located inside the main...
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Museu da Ciência
Have you ever wondered how science was like in the early centuries? How did they study nature and its phenomenons without technology? What kind of objects did they use? Since the university of Coimbra is one of the oldest in the world, it also represents the earliest...
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![Museu Nacional Machado de Castro]()
Museu Nacional Machado de Castro
Coimbra is a very historic and cultural city. This is a fact known by many people due to the fame of the University of Coimbra, one of the oldest and most traditional in Europe. Very few people know, though, that Coimbra's history and culture is much more older than...
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Pastelaria Briosa
Portugal is very well known for its sweet delicacies. From Pasteis de Nata (cream pastries) - the most famous dish - to amazing cakes, if you like sweets, this country is made for you. History Portuguese sweets are a tradition in the country created by the catholic...
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Sé Velha
In the heart of the city of Coimbra there is a church called Sé Velha, the oldest among the 50 churches in town and full of history in its walls. It used to be the city's cathedral until the 18th century, when it was transfered to Sé Nova, a bigger and more modern...
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Sé Nova
Coimbra is a very catholic city. Besides religion, another important thing there is the University. Because of that, the city's cathedral couldn't be anywhere else than inside the main campus of the school. The cathedral, also known as Sé Nova in portuguese, is very...
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A "Cabra" - Bell from the University Tower
The most iconic element of Coimbra's skyline is the University's clock tower, also known as "Cabra" by the locals. It is located on the highest point of the city and right in the middle of the main campus of the University. Therefore, it is very important to the...
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![Cafeteria Belo Horizonte]()
Cafeteria Belo Horizonte
Are you brazilian and missing your country's food in Coimbra? Or are you from Portugal or any other country and want to get to know and taste what brazilians eat? Cafeteria Belo Horizonte is just the place for that. From pães de queijo (cheese breads) to complete...
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Study in Coimbra
I've always lived in a big city in a huge country - I am Brazilian from São Paulo, the biggest city in Latin America in the 5th biggest country in the world. But I came to Coimbra to study for a semester (6 months). Coimbra, as you may know, is a small city in Portugal...
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Living in São Paulo
I've lived in São Paulo my whole life - spent some months in Rio, and did some exchange programs, but my home has always been there. I'm paulistana, that's how you call a person who was born in the city of São Paulo - don't mistake it for Paulista, a person who was...
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Moulin Rouge
"The greatest thing you'll ever learn is just to love and be loved in return. " If this sentence looks familiar you probably already know what I'm talking about: the Moulin Rouge! For those who don't know, the Moulin Rouge is a very famous nightclub in Paris and also...
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Sacred heart basilica (Sacré-Coeur)
Churches usually have tower that point to the sky, like they want to reach it. Sacre Coeur is a church that is already among the clouds, with a view from heaven to Paris. It is located in the highest point of the city - the mountain Matre, in Montmartre neighbourhood -...
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Palais des Invalides
Almost every corner of Paris has a history hidden. The city has more than 10 thousand years old, as archeologists say, and it became one of the most importants cities in the western world during th 5th century, mantaining this status until nowadays. An historic place in...
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Ladurée Champs-Elysées
Paris is known for its gastronomy. The French culture is all about eating well and fancy. They don't have fast-foods, but boulangeries (local bakeries), they don't eat sandwiches, but baguettes or croque-monsieur, they don't have pancakes but crèpes, and when it comes...
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Champ de Mars
The most privileged place to see the Eiffel Tower in Paris is Champ de Mars, the park where the monument is located. From any place in the gardens you can see the huge tower really closely, admiring its details and greatness. Once in the park, you can walk under the...
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Jardins des Tuileries
If you're into gardening, you probalby know the French used to have a thing for gardens, or jardins, like they call them. The monarchy of France during the 16th and 17th centuries built many gardens in their castle and they created their own style of gardening: French...
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Hameau de la Reine
Can you imagine a palace so big that has a small village inside its domains? That's Chateau de Versailles. Its garden has more than 600 hectares, hundreds of statues, dozens of fountains, a lake, a waterway, forests, small palaces and mansions, and even a copy of a...
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Musée du Louvre
Paris is known, among other things, for its art and culture. A lot of it is kept inside Musée du Louvre, the most famous museum in the city and probably in the world. It is home for more than 380 thousand of art pieces, including Monalisa - the most famous -, Venus de...
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Musée D'Orsay
The most famous museum in Paris, after Musée du Louvre, is Musée D'Orsay. It is one of the city art treasures with more than 4 thousand art pieces. The art in Paris is divided into three museums. Louvre keeps art since the Ancient Age (Greek, Egyptian and Roman) to...
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Avenue des Champs-Elysées
"La plus belle avenue du monde" (The most beautiful avenue in the world). That's how the French call Champs-Elysées, a famous avenue in Paris. I don't know if it is the most beautiful, but is probably the most famous in the Western world - and the most expensive as...
