Joanina Library
60,000 books. Guarded at night by bats.
Heritage Partially accessible
What to visit
Royal Palace
Kings slept here. Students still argue here.
Heritage Partially accessible
St Michael's Chapel
Two thousand pipes, three centuries of music.
Heritage Partially accessible
University Tower
The bell that bossed students around for 300 years.
Heritage Not wheelchair accessible
Chemistry Laboratory
Real experiments happened on these benches in 1772.
Science Wheelchair accessible
College of Jesus
The 1542 college where the University's scientific cabinets were born.
Science Partially accessible
Botanical Garden
13 hectares, 250 years of green.
Nature Partially accessible
Tropical Greenhouse
Iron, glass and the tropics — the garden's nineteenth-century greenhouse.
Nature Partially accessible
Academic Museum
The capes, the ribbons, the serenades.
Museums Partially accessible
UC Exploratório
Touch everything. That's the rule.
Science Wheelchair accessible
Cabinet of Curiosities
No labels. On purpose.
Museums Partially accessible
Physics Cabinet
The 18th century's coolest gadgets.
Science Partially accessible
Casa das Caldeiras
Where steam gave way to serenades.
Heritage Wheelchair accessible
Mineral Gallery
Four billion years, one room.
Science Partially accessible
University map
Space of Knowledge
Listen to the audio guides
The stories of each place, in six languages — with sign-language video. Listen here on the site, or take them offline in the Space of Knowledge game inside the UC One app.