Hotel Dom Luis Coimbra
Rotunda da Ponte Santa Coimbra, Beiras, 3040-091, Portugal
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Fuga ao planejado
Hoje fugimos do roteiro planejado.
Mas foi uma escolha maravilhosa.
Nós resolvemos ir à Coimbra.
Como não estava nos planos rodamos a cidade toda para encontrar um hotel.
E por fim escolhemos o mais belo!
Fica num morro e tem uma vista linda!
aiai
Estou amando!
Hana
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Wow - they knew Roman Numerals!
Lazy day, took our time getting moving, then headed off to Canimbriga just South of Coimbra to see the Roman ruins. If you're going there, check out the museum first to get a slightly better idea as to what went on there back then.
Went back ...
Eating snails
Beach hopping up the
coast. Stopped at a beach side restaurant and ordered some snails
expecting those big snails... The plate arrived piled high with
literally hundreds of tiny snails- shells a little smaller than a
dime. Steve had to ...
From Tears to Fado
Two beautiful days in Coimbra! This is Portugal's former capital and the home of the second-oldest university in all of Europe. (Bologna, Italy has the oldest.) Less than 100 years after this area was "liberated" from the Moors, Portugal's first king made this his capital in 1139. In 1290 the university here was founded, originally in Lisbon and then moved here in 1308. Thus the city is jam-packed with history.
(Note: I put "liberated" in ...
Travelling to Portugal
... for all the good works that she did back in the 16th Century. Our next stop was for lunch at Salamanca, which is a university city and we were taken to see the front wall of the University building and given the task of trying to find the frog amongst all the pictures on this facade. This frog is found in the souvenir shops all over the city and is quite a tourist drawcard.
During the afternoon another couple of short ...



