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Monuments in Coimbra
Capela de Nossa Senhora da Alegria
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Bairro Senhora d'Alegria
3040, Coimbra
Chapel of longitudinal plant, consisting of a nave, a chancel and a vestry located near the left side. It was built in 1634, showing features of Mannerist and Baroque architecture. Inside, highlighting some 18th-century tiles that line the walls of the chancel, depicting scenes from the life of the Virgin Mary.
Capela de Nossa Senhora da Piedade
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Rua Nossa Senhora da Piedade
3025, Coimbra
Mannerist Chapel of longitudinal plant, consisting of a ship, an altar housing a porch and a vestry. Featured, abroad, to the lateral façades seventeenth-and, inside, a sculptural group dating from the 17th century.
Capela de Nossa Senhora das Neves
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Rua da Nossa Senhora das Neves, 32
3025, Coimbra
Chapel of longitudinal plant simple, consisting of a nave, a chancel, a vestry and a porch. It was built in the 17th century, showing a great aesthetic value, cultural and historical. Inside, the main altarpiece in Baroque carved bicromática.
Capela de Nossa Senhora de Loreto / Capela de Nossa Senhora da Guia
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Rua Coronel Júlio Veiga Simão
3020, Coimbra
Chapel built in the first half of the 16th century, the present characteristics of Renaissance architecture and the Mannerist. Consists of a simple longitudinal plant with articulated volumes arranged horizontally with toppings differentiated gabled roofs and three waters.
Capela de Nossa Senhora da Conceição e Capela de Santa Catarina
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Calçada de Santa Isabel, 1-A
3040-270, Coimbra
18th century chapel with features of Rococo architecture. It consists of three bodies and, inside, a single nave covered by a vault of edges. It is the headquarters of the third order of St. Francis.
Capela de Nossa Senhora da Conceição
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Rua Luís de Camões, 41
3045, Coimbra
Chapel built in the 20th century, with a longitudinal plan and with differentiated water covers in the porch and the two waters in the chapel.
Mosteiro de Celas
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Avenida Bissaya Barreto, 105
3000-132, Coimbra
The Celas Monastery is a construction of sober character, showing the influence of several architectonical styles. At the church are worthy of notice the manueline arched roof, a 17th century glazed tiles panelling and several portals and arches with renaissant and manueline characteristics. The cloisters’ galleries present pictures representing memorable events at the chapiters.
Edifício do Colégio de São Pedro dos Religiosos Terceiros
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Rua da Sofia
3000, Coimbra
The church with one single nave, presents a front with 3 arches, three lateral chapels, main-chapel and high-choir over the atrium. Worthy of notice are the staircase of the collegial building and its glazed tiles, the XVIII century cloister and the golden woodcarving retable of the Sacramento chapel.
Capela do Senhor dos Remédios
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Rua Bernardo de Albuquerque
3000, Coimbra
Small chapel located at the city centre, very simple and striped of ornaments. It has armorial bearings over the main door.