2 Best Sights in Coimbra and Central Portugal, Portugal

This museum, housed in a stately early-17th-century palace-cum-monastery adjacent to the 18th-century Igreja da Misericórdia (Church of Mercy), is worth a visit. It documents the region's history with a collection of prehistoric and Roman objects, old paintings, arms, and ecclesiastical art.

Inside this 18th-century manor house you'll see a good collection of paintings by one of the country's most distinguished artists, Abel Manta. He was born in Gouveia in 1888 and died in Lisbon in 1982. Today the exhibition has been expanded with the superb modern paintings by Manta's son, João Abel Manta.