Baixa de Coimbra or Coimbra Historic Center is the name given to a central area of ​​the city of Coimbra, in Portugal, consisting of the parishes of São Bartolomeu and Santa Cruz.

The designation was developed with the separation between "Alta", where the nobility lived, the clergy and, later, students and "Baixa", predominated by commerce, handicrafts and riverside neighborhoods. Today, both are privileged places in the city, where services (banking, insurance, commerce), centuries of history, housing, culture, green spaces and leisure are mixed.

Baixa has no defined limits, but it can be considered as generic limits: the green and roundabout area of ​​Casa do Sal to the north, the Doutor Manuel Braga Park to the south, the D. Pedro V Municipal Market to the east and the Mondego River to west.

It is here that you can find a part of the city's civic center, the big shopping streets (such as Rua Ferreira Borges), the traditional D. Pedro V Municipal Market, the Coimbra-A / Estação Nova train station and important monuments such as the Monastery of Santa Cruz.