Luxury holidays in Coimbra

When to go

Coimbra is an attractive proposition all year round: in the summer, temperatures vary between 25 and 30 degrees, and during the winter months the student life of the city is at its peak, with bars and restaurants filled with young people attending concerts, gigs and other events.

Getting there

• Planes

  Coimbra’s nearest airports are Lisbon (190 kilometres away) and Porto (120 kilometres away). You can hire a car from these urban centres or take a train on Portugal’s effective transit system.

• Trains

  From Lisbon, trains run every hour and take about two hours to reach Coimbra’s ‘new’ (stação nova) or ‘old’ (estação velha) stations.

• Automobiles

  You may want to hire a car to explore the landscape to its fullest; roads are generally safe and easy to navigate in this central portion of the country.