At the highest point of the upper old town lies the university with the baroque clock and bell tower, the Biblioteca Joanina with around 300,000 precious books and the Capela de São Miguel. Right next to this part of the university, which dates from the Baroque and earlier epochs, a number of faculty buildings, colossal statues and a monumental open staircase were built during the time of the fascist Estado Novo in the 1940s, to which a large part of the historically grown upper old town was sacrificed fell.

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The grounds of the old university are entered from Praça da Porta Ferrera through the Iron Gate from 1633. The various faculties are represented here by allegorical statues, medicine and law on the outside, theology and ecclesiastical teaching on the inside. Above the passage the kings Diniz and João III. and in the blasted gable the allegory of wisdom.

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Christopher

May 1, 2023

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Entrance gate to the inner courtyard with the Joanina Library.

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1. Coimbra Old Cathedral – Church of Saint John of Almedina loop from Montes Claros

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