Most English-language writing about Coimbra is anonymous, and a great deal of it is accurate once and never checked again. That is how a free shuttle train that stopped running in January 2025 is still being recommended twenty months later. Named authorship is a commitment to the opposite: when a contributor writes that the library takes fifty people every twenty minutes, they are putting a name to it.
Editorial team
The people behind Coimbra Unlocked
Three resident contributors, each with a beat, each putting a name to the numbers.
Inês Carvalho
Monuments & heritage editor · The university, monuments & UNESCO
Covers the UNESCO hill: the university circuit, both cathedrals and the monasteries, with ticket rules read off the operators’ own pages.
Profile and recent work
Tomás Pereira
Transport & planning editor · Getting there, getting around, getting it right
Writes the transport and planning pages, and re-reads the operators’ own notices whenever Coimbra changes how you move through it.
Profile and recent work
Sofia Almeida
Food, fado & student life · Eating, drinking and the Academia
Covers what Coimbra eats and sings, and is strict about which famous dishes come from this city rather than the hills around it.
Profile and recent workQuestions about the editorial team
Are the authors based in Coimbra?
Yes. Each contributor lives in the city and re-walks the routes and ticket offices they write about.
Is the content generated by AI?
No. Contributors research and write every page; editorial tools are used for checking, not for producing text.
What happens when you cannot verify something?
We print the gap. Over a hundred figures we wanted for this site are not published by anybody, and every one of them is written down as missing rather than estimated.