University · Salamanca

Escuelas Mayores

Today: Escuelas Mayores de la Universidad de Salamanca, Salamanca

Place
Salamanca
Kind
University
Built
1411 to 1794
What remains
Standing
Visiting
Not checked

The main building of the University, begun after the constitutions of 1411 and finished, after many remodellings, in 1533. Its Plateresque west façade went up between about 1512 and 1533; the library received its vault and shelves from Manuel de Lara Churriguera in 1749, the chapel of San Jerónimo was built between 1761 and 1767 and the Salón de Claustros between 1791 and 1794.

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