Day trips Updated 21 September 2026
Coimbra: The Old University City Between Lisbon and Porto
A gilded baroque library with a timed ticket, a fado tradition nothing like Lisbon's, and a hilltop campus easy to reach by train from either city.
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A gilded baroque library with a timed ticket, a fado tradition nothing like Lisbon's, and a hilltop campus easy to reach by train from either city.
What fills a second trip: canals and painted boats in Aveiro, a hilltop university city, a baroque stairway above Braga, and towns nobody photographs.