University · Salamanca
La Clerecía
Today: La Clerecía (Universidad Pontificia), Salamanca
- Place
- Salamanca
- Kind
- University
- Built
- 1617 to 1754
- What remains
- Standing
- Visiting
- Not checked
The former Royal College of the Holy Spirit of the Jesuits, begun in 1617 under the protection of Margaret of Austria and finished in 1754, to a plan by Juan Gómez de Mora. After the expulsion of the Jesuits in 1767 it passed to the Real Clerecía de San Marcos, which gave it its name. It is now the seat of the Pontifical University; in 2012 worship ended in the church so that it could be run for tourism.
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