[2/2] Within the Universidade de Coimbra’s former palace complex is the Chapel of São Miguel | St. Michael's Chapel, featuring azulejos (tiles) & a grand organ (📷1), & Sala dos Capelos | the Great Hall of Acts, formerly the throne room, with carpeted walls & painted ceiling (📷2). In the nearby Museu da Ciência | Science Museum, this uncomfortable-looking lecture theatre predates the adjacent Physics Cabinet, an 18th C. collection of teaching instruments, by ~100 years (📷3). The Cabinet of Curiosities is a captivating display room for bizarre objects (📷4). We also visited the Chemistry Lab before descending through the medieval streets of the Alta to view the 12th C. Sé Velha de Coimbra, a Romanesque fortress-like cathedral. Then along the Rua da Sofia in the Sofia area, lined with former colleges & convents that seemed somewhat neglected externally.

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