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Cidade Universitaria Description

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.

Hobbies & Activities category: Region, quarter of a major city; Education institution

Cidade Universitaria Highlights

Cidade Universitaria - Faculty of Arts

At the entrance to the Faculty of Arts, Fernando Pessoa's heteronyms designed by the artist Almada Negreiros are depicted.

Cidade Universitaria - Rector's Office

Until 1962 Marcelo Caetano, Salazar's successor, was rector of the university. The rector's office stands in the center of a wide lawn, with the Faculty of Law located to its south and the Faculty of Arts to its north.

National Library

Since 1969 the buildings of the National Library have been on the Campo Grande to the south of Cidade Universitaria. The National Library was founded in 1798 and was then housed on the newly built

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Torre do Tombo National Archive

Since 1990 a new building complex has stood next to the Faculty of Arts. This is the seat of the Torre do Tombo National Archive, which had been "provisionally" housed in the Palácio de Sao Bento

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