Full-day Coimbra and Aveiro Tour

Tour highlights

Aveiro

Considered the Venice of Portugal, where you will take a boat trip through the city’s canals.

‘Salinas’

The exploitation of salt in Aveiro is a pretty old activity that still remains in the present.

Coimbra

Known as the city of the students, offers centuries of culture and history. Here you’ll visit the first university in the country and its world famous library, a Baroque masterpiece built under the order of King John V, in the 18th Century. Its has copies of the rarest bibliographic collections from the 16th, 17th and 18th centuries.
You’ll also walk the downtown city centre and visit many other important monuments of the city.

Old Cathedral of Coimbra

One most important Romanesque buildings in the country, that was built when Afonso Henriques declared himself King of Portugal and chose Coimbra as the kingdom’s capital.

‘Portugal dos Pequenitos’

Is a thematic park designed as an educational and tourist space, to show aspects of culture and Portuguese heritage.

Conímbriga

Archaeologists believe that Conímbriga is one of the largest Roman settlements known in Portugal.
Inside its museum, objects found throughout the many years of excavation are exposed. The various spaces evoke the daily life of the ancient Roman city, the experience of religion, the architecture of the noble houses and their decoration, and the life at the forum.
Conímbriga is visited annually by 100 thousand people.