Best Student Accommodation in Vila Nova De Gaia, Portugal

Higher Polytechnic Institute of Gaya

• Casita has 5 accommodation options within walking distance to the university.

• There are 4 bus stops close to campus; Makro is just a 3-minute walk away.

• Mosteiro da Serra do Pilar is just a 9-minute car ride away.

Polytechnic Institute of Management and Technology

• Our 5 accommodation options are all within walking distance of the university.

• More than 5 bus stops surround the campus; Barrosa is just a minute walk away.

• Miradouro das Fontainhas is just a 13-minute car ride away.

Conservatory of Music of Gaia

• Casita’s 5 accommodation options are within walking distance to campus.

• There are 4 bus stops surrounding campus; both Barrosa and Alféres Pereira are a 3-minute walk away.

• Porto Legends is just an 11-minute car ride away.

On a terrace looking down on the Dom Luís I Bridge and the Douro is the 16th-century Mosteiro da Serra do Pilar that is included in Porto’s World Heritage Site. This is Gaia’s most important landmark and is an energizing place to be, day or night. There’s an uplifting perspective of the Douro from here and you can see a great deal of Porto and both banks of the river, as far as the modern Arrábida Bridge to the west. The monastery itself dates to the 16th century, with a church decorated with 18th-century gilded altarpieces and polychrome sculptures of the saints Augustine, Apollonia, and Eulalia.

The Teleférico de Gaia is a cable car that was opened in 2011 and rides just over half a kilometre up and down the high south bank of the Douro. The upper terminal is the Serra do Pilar monastery, and this is the station that people crossing from Porto will use. From there you’ll be flown, 50 metres above the port lodges and warehouses, down to the water’s edge at Avenida Ramos Pinto. The journey takes five minutes, which is plenty of time to get some snaps of the river, the Dom Luís I Bridge, and Gaia’s timeless cityscape.

The Casa-Museu Teixeira Lopes is a museum to the sculptor António Teixeira Lopes who was native to Vila Nova de Gaia. His work is dotted all around the Porto area. In 1895, his brother designed a palatial atelier for him to work in. This now houses the museum, which as well as holding many of Teixeira Lopes’ works also gives you an introduction to Portuguese art of the past 200 years. You can see sculptures by António Soares dos Reis and José Sousa Caldas, along with paintings by the rococo court painter Vieira Lusitano or the 19th-century naturalist José Malhoa.

The Dom Luís I Bridge is your link with Porto. This metallic bridge is one of the city’s international identifiers and broke records when it was completed in 1886. The bridge was designed by Théophile Seyrig, who had co-founded the Eiffel Company in 1868. One of many innovative features at the time was the inclusion of two levels: Today the upper level is for Porto’s light railway system and pedestrians, while the lower section is for road traffic, with a footpath provided there as well.

You can get around Vila Nova de Gaia using buses. There are 7 bus lines; these are 007, 01, 014, 215, 244, 4082, and 904. There is also a metro (subway) service that you can use to get around the city.

Casita offers student accommodation in other Portugal cities besides having facilities for student accommodation in Vila Nova De Gaia. Some of these cities are: