Old Cathedral of Coimbra
Coimbra, Coimbra District, Portugal Christianity
A remarkably intact Romanesque cathedral begun in 1164, consecrated in 1184 and associated with the 1185 coronation of King Sancho I.
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Monastery of Santa Cruz
Coimbra, Coimbra District, Portugal Christianity
A nationally protected Augustinian monastery founded in 1131, burial place of Portugal’s first two kings and a major intellectual centre of the…