Every corner of Salamanca is university: during the school year, you will meet students in cafes, in the Plaza Mayor, the libraries crowded with students ... And the whole city moves around the college, an educational institution with no less than eight centuries old.
However, despite the years or centuries, the university soul of Salamanca keeps her young, thanks to the thousands of students who circulate it and occupy it every year, giving it fresh air, life and youth.
The University of Salamanca
In Salamanca there are two universities: the University of Salamanca, public, and the Pontifical University. The first dates from 1218 and was founded by Alfonso IX de León, and later promoted by Alfonso X el Sabio. The Pontifical University is later. It was created in 1940 by Pius XII, and is established in the Clergy building, which was the Royal College of the Holy Spirit of the Society of Jesus (from the 17th and 18th centuries).
The University of Salamanca, or the building in which it is housed, has an imposing Plateresque façade. Is he courtyard of the major schools, on whose cover there is a hidden frog that first-year visitors and students strive to find. It is quite a legend, and they say that to graduate you must find it.
Already inside, the university rooms are distributed from the cloister: the classrooms of Rhetoric and Eloquencethe of Canon Law and that of Theology or of Fray Luis de León. You will also have to visit the classroom of Francisco de Vitoria and the classroom of the column.
Going up the main staircase you will reach a high gallery where the library, an authentic wonder that contains more than 1,000 books published between the 16th and 18th centuries, 3,000 manuscripts and 500 incunabula.
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