2 Best Sights in Gouveia, Coimbra and Central Portugal

The exterior of the baroque Igreja Matriz is covered with blue-and-white tiles, and well-executed azulejos depicting the Stations of the Cross line the inside walls of the small, dimly lighted chapel across the street.

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.