# Santo António dos Olivais Church and Quarter

Coimbra, Portugal

A hilltop quarter east of the university, named for the olive groves where Portugal's first Franciscans settled. Here the young friar who became Saint Anthony of Padua once lived, and a medieval hermitage grew into a church and a sprawling residential parish.

## Roots Earth

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Coordinates: 40.218, -8.404

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