Private tours in Oporto & surroundings
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Program
Coimbra - Coimbra, a charming town with an ancient and traditional University, where we mingle in the atmosphere of
students. Inhabited by Romans and Arabs, it was once the capital of Portugal, before Lisbon took its place. Sightseeing of
Coimbra, including the University, the first to exist in Portugal, since the XIII century and one of the most important
Universities in Europe: see the Library, a masterpiece of gilt wood-work and its courtyard from where we have another nice
view over Mondego river.
Free time to walk around through the narrow streets of the ancient section and see the antique Cathedral, dating from the XII
century. You may also choose to visit “Portugal in miniature”, an area with miniatures of several monuments of Portugal.
Fatima - Our Lady of Fatima is the title given to the Blessed Virgin Mary Who appeared to three shepherd children at
Fátima, on the 13th day of six consecutive months in 1917, starting on 13 May, the Fatima holiday. Tour of Fatima where
you can visit the Sanctuary and the Basilica – with the tombstones of shepherds - and the Chapel of Apparitions, heart of
the shrine – where Our Lady appeared to the shepherds. Time to attend mass. Aljustrel, tour of the houses where Jacinta,
Francisco and Lucia were born.
Valinhos, see the place where Our Lady of Fatima appeared for the 4th time in August 19th, 1917.
Loca do Anjo, visit the place where the children, Francisco, Jacinta and Lucia, saw the apparition of the Angel for the first
and third time.
Batalha - Proceed to Batalha Monastery, a XIV century masterpiece in Gothic style. Batalha Monastery, is a Dominican
monastery in the Portuguese town of Batalha, in the District of Leiria, Portugal. It is one of the best and original examples of
Late Gothic architecture in Portugal, intermingled with the Manueline style. It amazes the onlooker with its profusion of
gables, spires, pinnacles and buttresses. It has become a symbol of Portugal. Here you can admire the highest church in
Portugal, the Royal Pantheon of the Portuguese “Conquerors of the Sea”, the beautiful manueline cloister and the
“Unfinished Chapels”.
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...This city holds a special place in the hearts of all the Portuguese. Rich in its history and is the oldest seat of learning in
Portugal with a University founded in 1290 by King Dinis, one of the oldest in the world. Six of Portugal’s Kings were born
here and between 1139 and 1256 it was the chosen capital of the country. Old Coimbra sits on a hill on the right bank of the
River Mondego, with the university crowding its summit. Centuries of history lie under a fine mantle of huddled white
washed houses, intersected by endless winding streets, steps, arches and lanes which decorate this beautiful, centuries-old
Upper Coimbra. The city has a few archeological remains of ruins dating from the time it was a Roman town called
Aeminium.With a dense urban grid the city of Coimbra is famous for its monuments, churches, libraries, museums,
numerous parks, gardens, nightlife, health-care and shopping facilities, but above all for its University, which made
Coimbra develop into an important cultural centre and has notable monuments from that era and beyond. Due to its
monumental buildings and history, attracts tourists from around the world...
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...The Catholic Church regards the three parts of the Fatima Secret and the total Fatima message to be important and of great
value to the spiritual lives of its people. It consists only of prophecies about the new condition of the Church in the world....
Fatima and its Secret do present us with something deeply serious, for they bring us face to face with the mysteries of eternal
life. Fatima is undoubtedly the most prophetic of modern apparitions. Faith and prayer are forces which can influence history
and that in the end prayer is more powerful than bullets and faith more powerful than armies...
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...In the XIV century, king Ferdinand died without a male heir to the throne; this originated the most significant civil war in
Portugal, involving England and Spain. The winner, king John I, ordered the construction of this Monastery in homage to
his victory and to be his Royal Pantheon. In fact, he started also what would become known as the “Magnificent
Generation”, those Monarchs who gave the impulse and consolidated the gigantic Portuguese Empire. The Monastery was
to be the Portuguese monarchy's main building project for the next two centuries. Here a highly original, national Gothic
style evolved, profoundly influenced by Manueline art...
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