Sapientia Boutique Hotel ★★★★

A book is a dream that you hold in your hand. 
– Neil Gaiman

Stir from your dreams in a crisp white room, highlighted with parchment and white birch. Your headboard is a patchwork of pages, worked into a large-scale mural dedicated to Portuguese literary minds, like the poet Fernando Pessoa. Alongside your room, though, there are cosy spots aplenty in the hotel to curl up with a novel, or simply pass a relaxing moment. Choose a quiet corner of the open-air bar lounge and snuggle up on a cool grey sofa. 

You live several lives while reading.
– William Styron

As a guest of the Sapienta Boutique Hotel ****, you too will live several lives during your stay. The hotel is located in the thick of Coimbra’s striking old town, just across from Portugal’s oldest university. Exist as a student while exploring the ornate Iron Gate and University Tower, before experiencing life as a medieval bishop in the breathtaking Old Cathedral of Coimbra.

If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.
 – Oscar Wilde

Just as with a good book, the view from the hotel’s gorgeous rooftop terrace proffers a new discovery upon every glance. One evening, you’re struck by the delightful terracotta rooftops, the next by the magnificence of the Mondego River – the vista is simply bursting with possibilities. Bathed in the light of twinkling lanterns, look out across the city at twilight, and let your imagination run wild.