Coimbra - Arco de Almedina

The Upper Town is reached on foot by turning south down the Rua Visconde da Luz and then turning left, beside number 75, through the Arco de Almedina. The arch is a relic of the Moorish town walls. The Gothic two story tower built over it in the 15th C. was occupied by a municipal court in the 16th C. and now houses a Museum of Ethnography.

Arco de Almedina was named in the period when Portugal was ruled by arabs in the 11th C.