Conímbriga
Conimbriga
Camino Portugués · Camino Portugués de la Costa
Distrito de CoímbraPortugal
Here Camino Portugués and Camino Portugués de la Costa converge. It is one of the points where the pilgrim shares the way with those arriving by another route.
The Roman city —not the modern one— whose original name travelled sixteen kilometres north after the Suebic destruction of the 5th century, giving rise to today's Coímbra. Conímbriga today preserves only the ruins: the place that lost its name but keeps its form.
Evolution of the name
- Conímbriga Latin (ciudad romana) 1st — 5th century
- (despoblado) — 5th century en adelante
Reflections, to the letter
The archaeological enclosure opens daily at the foot of the Camino: the pilgrim who detours half an hour crosses the cardo maximus of a dead city before reaching, that same night, the living one that inherited its name. The Casa dos Repuxos preserves figurative mosaics that rank among the finest in the Western Empire.
Glossary
- Roman road
- A stone-paved Roman highway, part of the imperial communications network (Via Aquitana, Via Augusta, Iter ab Asturica); many such roads became medieval routes and, later, stretches of the Camino de Santiago.
Sources
- Almeida, F. de — Ruínas de Conimbriga (Coímbra: Junta de Província da Beira Litoral, 1956)
- Alarcão, J. — Coimbra: a montagem do cenário urbano (Coímbra: Imprensa da Universidade, 2008)
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