Historic Cities
Explore Coimbra in 1750
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Historic Places, Rebuilt · City reconstruction
Coimbra — City of the Doctors, 1750
Coimbra in 1750 is a baroque university city clinging to a limestone hill above the broad Mondego, its academical life poured into cloistered colleges and narrow climbing lanes. The walk moves from the river and willow meadows up through the Arco de Almedina into the Alta, past the newly gilt Joanina Library, the clock tower and the stone colonnades, to a rooftop panorama over the Mondego.
25 scenes, 17 streets, squares and views, 8 interiors to step inside. Planned from the Wikipedia record of Coimbra as it stood in 1750 (“University of Coimbra”).
The route, scene by scene
- 1. Willow Flats of the Mondego
- 2. Ponte de Santa Clara
- 3. Santa Clara-a-Nova Convent
- 4. Ribeira do Mondego
- 5. Arco de Almedina
- 6. Rua da Almedina
- 7. Rua da Sofia
- 8. Alta's Climbing Lanes
- ↳ Student Supper Table · interior
- 9. Paço das Escolas Courtyard
- ↳ Chapel of São Miguel · interior
- 10. Torre da Universidade
- ↳ Belfry and Clock Chamber · interior
- 11. Via Latina Colonnade
- 12. Biblioteca Joanina Façade
- ↳ Main Gilded Book Hall · interior
- ↳ Side Reading Gallery · interior
- 13. Jardim da Manga
- 14. Mosteiro de Santa Cruz
- ↳ Cloister of Silence · interior
- 15. Sé Velha Fortress Front
- ↳ Romanesque Nave · interior
- 16. Roman Cryptoporticus
- ↳ Roman Cryptoporticus Gallery · interior
- 17. Tower Miradouro Panorama