Coimbra's university, founded in 1290, is Portugal's oldest and most distinguished, and a third of the city's 35,000-strong population are students. They lend an oddball vitality to the city.

New family of fungi threatens a UNESCO-listed 8-century-old cathedral in Portugal. ScienceDaily . Retrieved June 2, 2025 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2019 / 01 / 190128105224.htm ...

According to one culture official, the New Cathedral of Coimbra, in Portugal, served as the model for Macau’s Church of St Paul – of which only the facade remains, following a fire in 1835.

The 8-century-old cathedral Old Cathedral of Coimbra), the only Romanesque cathedral in Portugal to have survived intact since the Reconquista , is under attack from fungus.

A peculiar fungus was retrieved from an artwork in the Old Cathedral of Coimbra, Portugal during a multi-disciplinary scientific survey. The organism was found to belong to the group of ...