University · Salamanca
Colegio de Calatrava
Today: Colegio de la Inmaculada Concepción de Calatrava (Casa de la Iglesia), Salamanca
- Place
- Salamanca
- Kind
- University
- Built
- 1717 to 1790
- What remains
- Standing
- Visiting
- Not checked
A college of the Order of Calatrava, set up as an imperial college by Carlos V in 1552, whose building was not begun until 1717, under Joaquín de Churriguera, who directed the work until his death in 1724. Jerónimo García de Quiñones resumed it in 1750 and removed the Baroque ornament in favour of Neoclassical taste; it was consecrated in 1790. It is the only college founded in Salamanca by the military orders whose building survives; it is now the seat of the Casa de la Iglesia.