The eastern boundary of La Candelaria district of Bogota, historical, political and cultural center of Colombia, at the foot of the hill of Guadalupe, is located the External University of Colombia. The campus has an area of 65 thousand square meters. In eleven buildings equipped with modern infrastructure for the academic life, surrounded by gardens and woods to enjoy the university community they are raised. Also part of the physical plant of the University several old houses of La Candelaria neighborhood and Egypt. It was founded on the 15 February 1886, by jurist and educator Nicholas Pinzón Warlosten, in answer to the educational restrictions imposed during "La Regeneración" which was a period when conservatives managed the government. It gained full university status in 1958. Nicholas Pinzón Warlosten, who obtained help and aid from ilustrive professors from the radical liberalism movement, and intellectuals from the body-social, formed an educational institution where, since its origins, has allowed the study and investigation of free ideas and thoughts.