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Lorenzana University Palace
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Of the few buildings in Toledo which was built in a few years and is due entirely to the idea of a single architect, without much overlap characteristic of eras and styles. At the University separated from the College of St. Catherine, turned out to be necessary to provide that adequate facilities.
The illustrated Cardinal Lorenzana bought the houses of the Inquisition and its neighboring and entrusted the work to the cathedral architect Ignacio Haan too late eighteenth century. The little room for such great work requires an ingenious solution to build a double staircase attached to the facade to make a dignified entrance from the first floor. This is where the grand home of five vain, with Ionic columns and monumental sculptural decoration, giving way to a courtyard columns. The auditorium is covered by a barrel vault half decorated with florid coffered.>
A founder of the giant shield, flanked by two angels playing the clarion of fame, the work of Salvatierra, is the climax of this magnificent example of neoclassical architecture. Following the closure of provincial universities in Spain in 1845, became the provincial institute of education. Currently has returned to its original destination, with headquarters rectorship Toledo at the University of Castilla La Mancha. |
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