"In the city's cafés and student residences, scattered across student housing and rented rooms in Alta de Coimbra, they gathered for discussions, discussing issues that contributed to the enrichment of the national literary panorama."

In addition to teaching itself, here they came into contact (often for the first time) with the cultural movements of the time that were arriving from abroad. In the city's cafés and student residences, scattered across student housing and rented rooms in Alta de Coimbra, they would meet for discussions, discussing issues that contributed to the enrichment of the national literary scene. Their everyday experiences and places were also transposed into their works and characters, serving as inspiration and backdrop for literary plots.

Of note at this level are the houses where Antero de Quental, Eça de Queirós, António Nobre, João José Cochofel, José Régio, among others, lived during their student days.

Writers such as Miguel Torga, Adelino Veiga and Manuel da Silva Gaio remained in the city and settled here; others are still honoured in monuments placed in gardens, avenues and squares of the city celebrating their connection to Coimbra.