With about 1.5 hectares, this garden belongs to the University of the Azores since 1976, when it was founded. It was ordered to be built to be the private park of the palace ordered to build, at the end of the 19th century, by the 2nd Visconde of Porto Formoso. Among other things, the Garden of the University Campus of Ponta Delgada, provides the realization of scientific activities and even the hosting of social events.