Hospital de Santa Maria (, "Saint Mary's Hospital") is a public
Central Hospital serving the
Greater Lisbon
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area as part of the Northern Lisbon University Hospital Centre (CHULN), a
State-owned enterprise. Santa Maria is the largest hospital in
Lisbon and indeed in
Portugal
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.
History
Saint Mary's Hospital is located in the ''Cidade Universitária'', the main campus of the
University of Lisbon
The University of Lisbon (ULisboa; pt, Universidade de Lisboa, ) is a public research university in Lisbon, and the largest university in Portugal. It was founded in 2013, from the merger of two previous public universities located in Lisbon, th ...
and
ISCTE – University Institute of Lisbon
ISCTE – Instituto Universitário de Lisboa is a Portuguese public tertiary education institution. It is located in the city centre of Lisbon, in Cidade Universitária, adjoining the Institute of Social Sciences (ICS) and Institute of Geogr ...
, within the civil parish of
Alvalade Alvalade may refer to the following places in Portugal:
*Alvalade (Lisbon), a freguesia (civil parish) in the municipality of Lisbon
*Alvalade (Santiago do Cacém), a freguesia (civil parish) in the Santiago do Cacém Municipality, Alentejo
*Estád ...
. Designed by German architect
Hermann Distel, it was built from 1940 to 1953, meant as a new University Hospital housing the
Faculty of Medicine of the University of Lisbon.
References
External links
Official site
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1953 establishments in Portugal
Hospitals in Lisbon
Hospitals established in 1953