CITY LOCATION

Since 2007, FCUP is located at Polo III (Campo Alegre) of the University of Porto. In this campus are also located the Faculty of Arts and the Faculty of Architecture. Five main buildings harbor all the faculty departments: Mathematics, Chemistry and Biochemistry, Physics and Geosciences, Biology (FC4) and Computer Sciences. Another building is dedicated to the main services (FC5) of FCUP. The Faculty maintains effective and historical connections to a broad set of buildings belonging to the University of Porto, such as the Science Museum, the Natural History Museum and the Old Library Fund (housed at the Historical Building of the University of Porto), the Geophysics Institute / Meteorological Observatory of Serra do Pilar, the Astronomy Observatory of Professor Manuel de Barros, the Marine Zoology Station Dr. Augusto Nobre and the Botanical Gardens. Agricultural sciences are taught at the Campus Agrário de Vairão in Vila do Conde, 25 km north of Porto.

Campo Alegre campus is 10 minutes away from Boavista where the famous “Casa da Música” concert hall is located, near a strong commercial zone with several shoppings centres and “Mercado do Bom Sucesso” (an old market that was transformed into a modern urban concept). Downtown Porto and the historic center of the city is just half-an-hour away, walking distance.