The University of Minho was founded in August 1973 and received the first students in the 1975/76 school year. Based on a matrix system structured in "Education Units", "Research Units" and "Support Units", needed concentrated facilities, university campus type, which were open to the community. The first years of this University Polo of Guimarães worked at the Palace of Vila Flor, acquired by the municipality in 1976. In 1980 Arq fernando Távora presents the general plan of urbanization of Guimarães in which he chooses a vast area located between Mount Latito (Castle de Guimarães ) And the Hill of S. Pedro de Azurém, close to the historical center of the city and with an excellent landscape framing, for the future university campus of Guimarães. Although its source end is close to the castle, Azurém was considered outside the urban limits until the end of the nineteenth century. If between the eighteenth and 19th centuries the population of almost triplicate Azurém, this is no longer an eminently rural area, with a very reduced constructive density.