Coimbra, built on a hilly site overlooking the River Mondego, was the country's capital in the Middle Ages, and has Europe's second oldest university, with Baroque and Manueline buildings clustered around a central quadrangle. The students wear traditional black capes decorated with ribbons coloured according to their faculty. The city has two impressive and very different cathedrals, the Romanesque Old Cathedral and Baroque New Cathedral. The extensive ruins of the original Roman city of Conimbriga have magnificent mosaic floors in an excellent state of preservation.

195 km North of Lisbon.
www.golisbon.com/portugal/cities/coimbra
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