Museum Machado de Castro, built on top of former Roman-era buildings.
Coimbra was known duing the Roman times as Aeminium. The museum occupies the former forum, located at the crossroad of the Cardo and the Decumanus roads. Due to…
Roman cryptoporticus.
Roman cryptoporticus.
Roman cryptoporticus.
Roman cryptoporticus.
Roman cryptoporticus.
Roman cryptoporticus.
Portrait of Aggripina the Elder, ca. 40 AD.
Capital, 12th century.
Saint John the Evangelist, 12th century.
Cloister of Sao Joao de Almedina. The ruins of the cloister were discovered on this location in the 1930s and excavated. Built ca. 1100.
Reliquary casket: the Moroccan martyrs, 13th and 14th centuries.
Funeral plaque, 14th century.
Medieval knight, 14th century.
Christ entombed, 14-15th centuries, monastery of Santa Clara.
Saint martyr, 14th century. Saint Agatha, 14th century.