With more than five centuries of tradition, the University of Santiago de Compostela is a historic institution that projects itself to the future and beyond its frontiers, always attentive to the different demands of society, where it stands as an important academic frame of reference and where it develops its academic and research work. Centuries of history give the University an special capacity to merge the experience, security and confidence with present and future challenges. The roots of the University go back to 1495, when the Santiago de Compostela solicitor López Gómez de Marzoa founds, with the help of the San Martiño Piñeiro abbot, a school for the poor known as "Grammatic Academy" in the monastery of San Paio de Antealtares. From then on, a period of uncertainties is opened due to the lack of economic resources. But in the year 1504, the Diego de Muros family arrives to this academic institution. Diego de Muros gets a bull issued by the Pope Julius II that allows for the realisation of higher learning in the "Gramatic Academy".