Coimbra Historical Centre: Self-Guided Audio Tour

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Coimbra

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Discover the historical highlights of Coimbra on a self-guided audio tour. Explore the narrow streets, ancient churches, and UNESCO World Heritage sites. Learn about the city’s rich history, Fado music, and university traditions. Enjoy stunning views from the university campus. Available for on-location or virtual exploration.

Duration: 1 hour, 30 minutes

Cancellation: 24 hours

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Highlights

This self-guided audio tour takes you past several churches, museums and monuments to hear the history of the city, the structures in front of you and the people connected to them.

What's Included

VoiceMap App for Android and iOS
Lifetime access to tour in English
Offline access to audio, maps, and geodata

What's Not Included

Food and drink
Smartphone and headphones
Tickets or entrance fees to any museums or other attractions en route
Transportation

Additional Information

Embark on a self-guided audio exploration of Coimbra’s historical core. This immersive tour leads you around the downtown area, known as Baixa, winding through its tight lanes and plazas, adorned with churches. Journey from the medieval city gates up to Cidade Alta, where the Old and New Cathedrals await. Coimbra’s historical realm earned recognition as…

Location

Largo da Portagem

Before arrival, please install the VoiceMap mobile app and use the code provided on your confirmation ticket. This is a self-guided audio tour that you can start, pause, or restart at any time and complete at your own pace. Detailed starting point instructions are available after downloading.

Cancellation Policy

For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.

Customer Ratings

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Arnold_a

Apr 2, 2024

Self Touring Made Easy - Complete and concise…this audio guide is such a great way to get the feel for Coimbra. Allows you to do it on your own pace. Wish there guides like this for other places in Portugal.

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Z9283pnkathyb

Sep 9, 2023

Perspective - The Machado de Castro National Museum is an art museum in Coimbra, Portugal, named after the renowned Portuguese sculptor Joaquim Machado de Castro. It first opened in 1913 and its latest renovation, which included the addition of a new building, was awarded the Piranesi/Prix de Rome Prize 2014. (Quote from Wikipedia). It is wonderful museum to give a perspective from Roman architecture (original) to 1800… through .. going from church to commerce.

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Susan_a

Sep 6, 2023

So easy to do, reasonably priced, and FULL of information! - This was our first self guided tour, and we were surprised at how easy it was to follow! It was packed full of information and gave great instructions on where to go and where to look. We could stop and spend as much time looking at something or taking pictures, then start up again. We used air buds to listen with, and didn’t have any problems at all. The price so reasonable too! We will definitely do one of these again! Thanks for making this type of tour an option!

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David_l

Jul 9, 2023

Perfect tour - We loved this format! Great information. Easy to go at you own pace. Easy to stop and visit locations then resume.

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Robert_k

Jun 28, 2023

Very Easy and Informative - Very easy to use and informative. We bought one for me and one for my wife. In reality, we ended up only using 1, since we shared the one phone to save battery life. BTW, starting with a batter life of 75% or more is highly recommended!

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Donald_k

Apr 30, 2023

Coimbra self guided audio tour - This was a very novel way to take a tour of Coimbra. Because it was a self guided audio tour, we were we were able to pick the day and time to take the tour. The technology of the application worked fairly well; however, there were some times when the audio tour didn’t work when we were in a location where the audio tour should have resumed. Overall, however, we were very satisfied with the audio tour, and we would strongly recommend it to others.

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Christine_h

Apr 27, 2023

I may only do this in the future - This was a great experience. The hour and a half audio tour lasted 5 hours because we stopped at every museum, every coffee place, had a leisurely lunch in the middle and spent the day seeing the city on our own time.

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Bzg1234

Nov 4, 2022

Tour at your own pace - Excellent self-guided tour. The guide was very knowledgeable and easy to understand and the app's use of GPS to identify your location meant that it automatically started playing the appropriate segment when you reached the designated spot and everything was very easy to find with the map and the guide's tips.

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David

Sep 11, 2023

Solo Coimbra tour - A good way to learn about Coimbra. A little more history could’ve been told during the tour for my taste. Overall, a good experience.

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Tripsavvy12

Sep 27, 2023

Not worth it - The self guided tour was easy enough to use but I stopped it halfway. It was getting confusing to follow and it dragged on. Didn’t find the points of interest that well, interesting. Maybe it’s the area or the app or both.

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