Mondego Move

What It Does

All transit information is sourced exclusively from the official Metro Mondego travel page. Mondego Move is an independently developed app and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or representative of Metro Mondego, the Municipality of Coimbra, or any government entity.

Explore Coimbra

The Explore tab gathers sights, events, and businesses in one place, and the map can show or hide each of those layers along with transport and car parks.

• Sights. Monuments, museums, gardens, and viewpoints in Coimbra and along the metro line, with photos, opening hours, and the nearest station.

• Map layers and styles. Show only what you want on the map, and switch between standard, satellite, hybrid, and 3D styles.

• Car parks. Parking near stations appears on the map and on each station page.

Passport and Trails

Visit Coimbra’s sights and collect a stamp at each one. Stamps have to be earned on location: the app checks on your device that you are really there, and your position is not sent anywhere for that.

• Riddles on site. Many sights carry a small riddle you can only solve once you are standing there. Answers forgive a typo and accept number words and Roman numerals. A sight without a riddle stamps on location alone.

• A stamp for every sight. Each stamp shows a line drawing of its sight. Tap one to see it fullscreen.

• Trails. A trail links several sights into a route. Follow it on its own map or on the main map, which flies to your next stop as you go.

• A reward at the end. Finish a trail and a ticket appears that you swipe to tear. The first trail is Subida à Alta. What waits at the end is a surprise.

Events Around Town

The Events tab is a community noticeboard for the Coimbra region. Anyone with an account can post to it, and I review every submission by hand before it goes live, which is the only reason the list stays worth reading instead of filling up with spam.

• A few minutes to submit. Title, description, dates, a location you drop on the map, organizer contact, an optional photo, and up to three category tags. Sign in with Google or Apple - there is no password to invent. Save a draft and finish it later from any device.

• Fourteen categories. Music, Food & Drink, Sports, Markets, Culture, Family, Outdoors, Nightlife, Community, Business, Education, Seasonal, Wellness, and Tech. Filter the list down to the ones you care about, or search it outright.

• Multi-day runs. A festival or a market can carry a per-day schedule with its own times, including the days it is closed mid-run.

• Favorites and sharing. Sign in to favorite an event and see how many other people did too. Anything that has ended drops off the list on its own. Share an event through the normal iOS or Android share sheet.

• Notifications are opt-in. Turn on new-event alerts in settings and you hear about events as they are approved. Leave it off and nothing pushes at you.

• Your listings stay yours. Edit an event after it is published or ask for it to be taken down, and you get a notification once that change is reviewed.

Local businesses work the same way, in their own tab, with the same review step.

The Story Behind It

I live part of the year in Portugal, and the Mondego region is home. When the Metro Mondego system arrived, I wanted a clean, bilingual companion for it - something a visitor could open in English and a local could use in Portuguese, with dark mode, tablet support, and offline capability built in from day one.

It is a small, honest utility: official data, an independent app, and a community layer of local listings on top. Browse the rest of the lineup on the apps page.