Local dishes

Desserts of Coimbra

Desserts

Round golden arrufada sweet bread from Coimbra on a wooden board

Arrufadas de Coimbra

A round, light sweet bread scented with cinnamon and aniseed, and one of only two sweets in this guide that genuinely originate in Coimbra itself.

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Half-moon pastéis de Santa Clara pastries dusted with sugar

Pastéis de Santa Clara

Half-moon pastries filled with egg sweet and ground almond, from the Convento de Santa Clara. One of only two sweets that genuinely originate in Coimbra.

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Cylindrical pastéis de Tentúgal dusted with icing sugar

Pastel de Tentúgal

Dough stretched to between 0.06 and 0.15 mm, rolled around egg and sugar syrup. IGP protected, from Tentúgal in Montemor-o-Velho, twenty kilometres west.

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