Lisbon - Cidade Universitária

 
The university buildings lie in the north of Lisbon, to the west of the Campo Grande parkland. A university was first founded in Lisbon in the 13th C. After Lisbon succeeded Coimbra as the capital city in the middle of the 13th C. Coimbra gained a university at the beginning of the 14th C. as "recompense" and this remained Portugal's only university until 1911, when Lisbon was once again given its own university. Plans for a university to be built on its present site arose in the 1930s, but the buildings, designed by Pardel Monteiri, were only constructed between 1955 and 1960.

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Transit: Subway: Cidade Universidade; Bus: 1, 7, 7A, 17B, 31, 32, 36, 38, 45, 46A, 47, 83.

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