Guided1h30
Guided Tour of the Palace of Schools
Ninety minutes inside the Royal Palace and St Michael's Chapel with a guide who knows which doors have the best stories behind them.
€25.00per person
Tickets
Tickets & programs
One ticket, many centuries. Choose the day you want to have.
Guided visits
- GuidedSeasonal2h
UC By Night
On summer Saturday nights the crowds go home and the hill changes register — the Joanina, the Palace, the Chapel and the Tower, by lamplight.
€25.00per person
- Guided1h30
Guided Tour of the Botanical Garden
Ninety minutes among centennial trees, terraces and peacocks with a guide who can tell you what everything is — and why it was planted in 1772.
€10.00per person
- Guided1h
Guided Tour of the Great Greenhouse
Step inside the 19th-century iron-and-glass Great Greenhouse for an hour among tropical species thriving a world away from home.
€10.00per person
Individual visits
Self-guided tickets — visit the spaces at your own pace.
- Self-guided3h
Joanina Library + University + Science Museum
The full story in one ticket: the gilded Joanina at your timed slot, the Royal Palace and Chapel, and the Science Museum circuit across the hill.
€16.50per person
- Self-guided2h30
University + Science Museum
The Royal Palace, St Michael's Chapel and the full Science Museum circuit — seven centuries of teaching, minus the queue for the library.
€12.50per person
- Self-guided3h
Science Museum + UC Exploratório
A full day of science on both sides of the river — 18th-century instruments and cabinets uptown, hands-on experiments and the planetarium down by the water.
€16.00per person
- Self-guidedSeasonal45 min
Fado, the Song of Coimbra
Forty-five minutes of Coimbra Fado — sung in black academic dress, born from student serenades — inside the university's converted boiler house.
€15.00per person
Plan your visit
The Joanina Library has timed entries every 20 minutes, with limited capacity per session. The time is printed on your ticket — arrive 10 minutes early.
What to visit
Joanina Library
60,000 books. Guarded at night by bats.
Royal Palace
Kings slept here. Students still argue here.
St Michael's Chapel
Two thousand pipes, three centuries of music.
University Tower
The bell that bossed students around for 300 years.
Chemistry Laboratory
Real experiments happened on these benches in 1772.
College of Jesus
The 1542 college where the University's scientific cabinets were born.
Botanical Garden
13 hectares, 250 years of green.
Tropical Greenhouse
Iron, glass and the tropics — the garden's nineteenth-century greenhouse.
Academic Museum
The capes, the ribbons, the serenades.
UC Exploratório
Touch everything. That's the rule.
Cabinet of Curiosities
No labels. On purpose.
Physics Cabinet
The 18th century's coolest gadgets.
Casa das Caldeiras
Where steam gave way to serenades.
Mineral Gallery
Four billion years, one room.