Old Cathedral of Coimbra
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The Old Cathedral of Coimbra is a Romanesque Roman Catholic building in Portugal. Construction of the Sé Velha began some time after the Battle of Ourique, when Prince Afonso Henriques declared himsel
West façade of the Old Cathedral of Coimbra
View of the Eastern façade of the Old Cathedral of Coimbra. Note the lantern-tower, main chapel and North chapel in Romanesque style. The South chapel (partially visible to the left) is Renaissance.
Renaissance Porta Especiosa on the North façade of the Cathedral
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Sisnando Davides
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Sisnando Davides was a Mozarab nobleman and military leader of the Reconquista, born in Tentúgal, near Coimbra. He was a contemporary and acquaintance of El Cid, but his sphere of activity was in Iber
Old Cathedral of Coimbra
…Ourique (1139), when Prince Afonso Henriques declared himself King of Portugal and chose Coimbra as capital. The first Count of Coimbra, the Mozarab Sisnando Davides, is buried in the cathedral. Coimbra (the Roman city of Aeminium) has been the seat of a bishopric since the 5th century, after neighbouring Conimbriga…
Sisnando's tomb
The Old Cathedral of Coimbra, distinctly Mozarabic in style, from the time of Sisnando. He is buried there.