Conimbriga is an extensive site of the Roman town founded in the 2nd century. This settlement, to which present day Coimbra owes its name, constitutes the largest Roman site in Portugal.
Some attractions within Conimbriga - Roman Site Map:
  • (1) Atrium (entrance hall)
  • (2) Peristyle, with mosaic pavement at SW comer (Perseus with head of Medusa)
  • (3) Triclinium (living room and dining room)
  • (4) Room with mosaic pavement (hunting scenes, chariot, the seasons)
  • (5) Pool
  • (6) Room with mosaic pavement (dolphins, sea monsters, wading birds, fish)
  • (7) Cubiculum (bedroom) with mosaic pavement
  • (8) Impluvium (for collecting rainwater)
  • (9) Room with mosaic (stag-hunt)
  • (10) Kitchen and domestic offices
  • (11) Colonnade
  • (12) Atrium (entrance hall)
  • (13) Impluvium (for collecting rainwater)
  • (14) Peristyle
  • (15) Triclinium (living room and dining room)
  • (16) Pool surrounded by columns
  • (17) Ornamental basin
  • (18) Frigidarium (cold bath)
  • (19) Tepidarium (warm bath) and caldarium (hot bath); hypocausts (hot air heating syst



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