Coimbra is a city in central Portugal that has historically been an important center for music. As the former capital and home to the country's oldest university, Coimbra has produced many notable composers and musicians over the centuries. The unique Fado de Coimbra style of music is closely tied to the city's academic traditions. Today, Coimbra remains a cultural hub with around 30,000 university students and continues to influence Portuguese music genres like rockabilly and blues.

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2. Coimbra Coimbra is a Portuguese city, capital of the district of Coimbra, the main city in central region of Portugal, located in the Baixo Mondego subregion in 2007 with about 157,000 inhabitants in the villages of their municipality. Historic city of students, currently has nearly 30 thousand students, most of them out, adding it is still about 45 to 48 thousand entries from people who live in peripheral municipalities, resulting in a fluctuating population of approximately 220,000 people. It is the center of the Metropolitan Area of Coimbra.

3. Culture and Leisure MUSIC As the first capital of Portugal and established the oldest Portuguese university, Coimbra has been for centuries a major musical center. Historically, the New Cathedral, the Monastery of Santa Cruz (founded by D. Afonso Henriques) and the University (with the music class since 1323) were the main centers of production and musical practice. D. Pedro de Cristo and Carlos Seixas summits are references in Portuguese music, along with the names of D. Pedro da Esperança, D. Francisco de Santa Maria, D. Heliodoro de Paiva, Fernão Gomes Correia, Vasco Pires, Matthew de Aranda, Pedro Thalésio or José Maurício .

4. The Fado of Coimbra is closely connected to academic traditions and is characterized by a guitar with a structure, configuration and tuning itself. Names such as Adriano Correia de Oliveira e Zeca Afonso, singers and poets of resistance to dictatorship, revolutionized the traditional Portuguese music. In light contemporary music, particularly in genres such as rockabilly and blues, there are several names associated with Coimbra. These are examples JP Simões, Legendary Tiger Man (Paul Brown, vocalist of WrayGunn), the WrayGunn and Bunnyranch. . MUSIC

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