Mondego Green Park
Presentation
Inaugurated in July 2004, the Mondego Green Park was designed by the Architect Camilo Cortesão, as part of the Polis Coimbra programme, covering both banks of the Mondego River.
Distance from Bairrada Spaces
Curia: 28,7km - 35min
Oliveira do Bairro: 40,5km - 48min
Extra Information
This is an immense green space where it is possible to find bars, restaurants, a children's playground, temporary exhibition pavilions and the Central Portugal Pavilion designed by Souto Moura and Álvaro Siza Vieira.
Connecting the left and right banks is the Pedro e Inês Pedestrian Bridge, designed by Adão Fonseca and Cecil Balmond, which was inaugurated on 26 November 2006. It is an antisymmetrical structure 275 metres long, which rises 10 metres above the water, with an 8-metre-wide square in the centre, designed as a place of pause and meditation.