Colegio de San Gregorio

Today: Museo Nacional de Escultura (Colegio de San Gregorio), Valladolid

Place: Valladolid
Kind: University
Built: 1488 to 1496
What remains: Standing
Visiting: Open to visit

The college that Fray Alonso de Burgos, Bishop of Palencia and confessor to the Catholic Monarchs, began to build in 1488 after obtaining the site in 1487; it went up until 1496 around a two-storey courtyard, and its façade is a retable in stone. The shields on the façade and in the courtyard were carved one before and one after the fall of Granada. Since 1933 it has been the main seat of the Museo Nacional de Escultura, and its remodelling ended in 2009.

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