The Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Lisbon is the oldest art school in Portugal. With its roots in the Academy of Fine Arts founded in 1836, the Faculty of Fine Arts has evolved into a school of artistic education linked to contemporary art and design, with the permanent concern of occupying an active place in today's culture.
Its location in the historic centre of the city, in the Convent of S. Francisco in Chiado, which has also been the centre for the affirmation of modernity in Lisbon since the 19th century, corresponds faithfully to the spirit that the Faculty of Fine Arts aims to embody: to develop an artistic culture that is attentive to our times and to implement artistic and research skills in the fields of art and design that respond to the challenges that today's globalised circulation of knowledge requires.
