Archive for the History & Culture Category

Baixa Not Shopping is a permanent photographic exhibition in an underground parking lot in Coimbra downtown by Paulo Abrantes. The photos, many of them representative of icons of the tradional commerce, represent details of a commercial heritage that is day by day either disappearing, being recycled or

We proudly celebrate the inscription of Coimbra and the University of Coimbra into the restrict group of UNESCO World Heritage in Portugal. This has been a work of all. Contratulations Coimbra! University of Coimbra is now Heritage of Humanity The University of Coimbra and the historical center

One of the great icons of the city’s culture is its song, the Fado. And the singer Luiz Goes, who died recently, with 79 years, was one of the great voices of Coimbra. Born in 1933, he graduated in Medicine at the University of Coimbra and worked