Day 9, Coimbra

We arrived in the rain, with luggage to our hill-top-hotel last night in the old part of Coimbra and snagged the last room at the inn. The pigeons' room at Casa Pombal in Coimbra, I would have been happy to have never known that this was the room's official name... 

Joanina Library at Coimbra University

Visited the Joanina Library at the University of Coimbra this morning, their rare books department has a prison in the basement...  For the naughty patrons. 

Classroom at Coimbra University, Law Faculty. Seriously.

Tiles and general amazingness... Law Faculty.

Coimbra

Coimbra from the Mondego River

We've missed the Queima das Fitas, the Burning of the ribbons, by one day. It's the graduation celebration for the students at the University of Coimbra, consisting of drunken parades and lots of traditional garb. The students here wear black capes while at the university, it's a bit like Hogwarts. It would have been fun to see, but 20,000 students drinking and catching their parade floats on fire (as happens every year) may have been a little scary. 

The clouds cleared and we spent the rest of the day walking up and down the hills of Coimbra and the Mondego River.