OLDEST UNIVERSITY IN EUROPE? | Coimbra | Quinta das Lágrimas, Mosteiros, Traditional Food | Portugal

Описание: Fourth episode of our Portuguese Adventure!
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In today’s video, we visited Coimbra! (2 hours by car from Lisbon)
First, We went to Quinta das Lágrimas, which is a luxury hotel with huge gardens, but what that place is really about is the story of Pedro and Inês, the Portuguese Romeo and Juliet. Fonte das Lágrimas is a fountain with huge significance, the water symbolizes Inês’ tears and the red color of the stones in her blood. Stories really make things interesting! After that, we went to Mosteiro de Santa Clara a Nova but unfortunately, they didn’t let us film… But then we went to the new one and it was amazing, it was on maintenance but even though, it was very nice to see all the ruins.
For lunch, we went to Mealhada, a city that is 20 minutes away from Coimbra, it’s the place to go if you want to eat Leitao. The restaurant is called Rei dos Leitoes, the pork was delicious! We always enjoy eating traditional food, of course!
Our next location was the University of Coimbra, a huge touristic attraction for being the oldest university in Europe and for its beauty. It is also a world heritage site by UNESCO. It was beautiful. We stopped by the Botanical Garden of Coimbra right next to an incredible aqueduct, to enjoy some of the beautiful nature that they have.
After seeing the beautiful gardens, we stopped by Penedo da Saudade, a viewpoint with lots of inscriptions from the students, really impressive… We had a traditional snack from Coimbra, a sweet pastry called Cruzio (Big thanks to our lovely subscriber for telling us the spot!) and then, we ended up our journey in Parque Verde, right next to the Mondego River.

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We’re Maria and Du, we met shooting a commercial in Lisbon (Maria’s city) in 2018.
We started a distance relationship flying twice a month (Lisbon - Barcelona) and after a few months of that, we finally moved in together in Barcelona, where Du was born and raised (his parents are from South Korea).
We started our Youtube channel because we love traveling, we always enjoy our trips and we wanted to keep our memories through nice videos, now we can share them with you.
Our final goal would be traveling full-time and some day, helping people around the world doing something good.

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