Colegio de la Compañía de Jesús

Today: Edificio Sarmiento, Pontevedra

Place: Pontevedra
Kind: University
Built: 1695 to 1714
What remains: Standing
Visiting: Open to visit

The Jesuit college, built between 1695 and 1714 to Pedro Monteagudo's designs beside its church, now San Bartolomé. After the Society's expulsion in 1767 it was a cloth factory of the English Lees brothers, a secondary school, a poorhouse and an orphanage. Since 1978 it has belonged to the provincial museum, which calls it the Sarmiento Building and shows its archaeological and ceramics collections there.

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