Coimbra is the third biggest city in Portugal located in the central region of the country. It’s an old university town, famous for its curving streets and hanging houses. This Portuguese region is characterized by joining the history, science and the arts in the beautiful architecture of its buildings, which is a mixture of years of historical and religious encounters. Attractive for the student life, Coimbra is recognized worldwide for hosting one of the most important universities in Europe as the University of Coimbra for its antiquity and its heritage legacies.
Educational tour through Coimbra
This ancient city located on the shores of the Mondego River, is a tourist destination where hundreds of Portuguese get professionally formed. The high side of the city, decorated by the silhouette of the Tower of the University, represents the cultural district of Coimbra, where the youthful atmosphere of academic life is breathed and preserved some of the oldest buildings such as the Roman Cryptoporticus; the Old Cathedral and the Church of San Antonio de los Olivares.
Iberinbound, as an incoming travel agency specialized in tourism reinvents itself every day to provide multiples urban activities for all ages, as many routes and educational groups in The University of Coimbra, especially on their campuses, museums, halls and libraries. Also, this ancient city has an annual program that offers concerts, expositions, new gastronomic trends and cultural events, which generates hundreds of tourists a year; they want to make a city break in this region noted for its dynamism and for the kindness and hospitality of its people.
The campus of the University of Coimbra was declared World Heritage Site in 2013 by UNESCO. Founded in the eleventh century, specifically in 1290 in Lisbon and transferred to Coimbra in 1308, this college is a knowledge center that actually gathers seven faculties: Arts, Law, Medicine, Science and Technology, Pharmacy, Economics and Psychology and Educational Sciences.
Inside, it holds one of the most representative libraries in the country, known as the Joannina library. This student space has a literary treasure of priceless value, which in contrast to the baroque design on its walls, it’s a representation of seventeenth-century art. Thanks to Iberinbound’s educational tours we can find the Museum of Science, an interactive space which goal is to inform about science to audiences of all ages, using the collections of scientific instruments of the University of Coimbra with a group of experiences and educational activities.