University of Osuna, Osuna, Spain

University of Osuna functioned from 1548 until 1824. The building of the former university is significant both architecturally and for its long history as a seat of the university. Its construction was ordered by Don Juan Téllez Girón, founder of the university. The First Duke of Osuna was responsible for numerous buildings in his domain, nearly all of a religious character. The university building is, therefore, particularly notable as an essentially civil building devoted to education.

The buildings erected under the patronage of the First Duke of Osuna are important primarily because of the adoption and diffusion of new stylistic currents and ideas from the Italian architecture of the time. The Renaissance aspects of the buildings are patent, as is the relation to the ideology of humanism in a building expressly created as a center for modern education.

The surviving university building testifies to the Renaissance aesthetics, providing one of the most singular and defining architectural examples of Osuna's past greatness.

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jesus Garcia (8 months ago)
Spectacular Renaissance building. Spectacular outside and inside. Although it once housed the university, today it is an institute. You have to see it.

Samuel R (11 months ago)
Small guided tour of the old university of Osuna, there is not much to see but several architectural details and paintings that make up the building, as well as a small chapel

José Guerrero S (12 months ago)
Historic Renaissance building that housed one of the first universities in Spain. It has a porticoed patio with an upper gallery, from where you can access the classrooms.

Mayka C. (12 months ago)
We were on our way back and we stopped in Osuna to have coffee, by chance we found several places that we really liked, one of them was this one, it is beautiful on the outside and the place where it is located is spectacular at the top of Osuna . I don't post photos of the inside because it was closed, but it should be a very interesting visit. The views alone are worth it. And what can we say about Osuna, there is a lot to visit. We will definitely return.

H R (22 months ago)
We saw it with a magnificent Guide who made the visit very enjoyable and instructive. It is a very well preserved building that in its history has gone through different uses. Highly recommended to do it with a guide who explains the history of the building.

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