The
University of Zaragoza and the Paraninfo
Building
8th Green
Chemistry Conference
ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY AND CLIMATE STABILITY THROUGH CHEMISTRY
Paraninfo Building
Like other institutions of the past and of other nations, the
University of Zaragoza did not suddenly arise, but rather had its beginnings in
what were known as the Ecclesiastical Schools. In the city these were later
known as the School of Zaragoza, whose guiding spirit in the 7th century was the
Bishop Braulio, the actual patron saint of our University. Later, references
from 1335 indicate there was a School of Arts. Between 1474 and 1476 this
institution earned the category of General School of Arts, to become a
university in the 16th century
It was the effort of a few –basically urban patricians and the
educated clergy– who obtained from the King of Aragon and "Emperor of the Romans"
the privilege of founding the General School of all Faculties in the city of
Zaragoza. To do so they took advantage of the meeting of the Cortes Generales
assembly in Monzón
and precisely on September 10th, 1542 the Emperor, King of the Aragonese, with
his mother Juana, signed with his “I, the King” the document –privilege- that
created "de jure” the Schools of Theology, Canon and Civil Law, Medicine,
Philosophy, Art and any that were acceptable in the university community.
The Papal Bulls of confirmation in 1554 and
1555 did not provide economic resources, and the privilege was not accompanied
by any income or benefit with which to undertake the tasks of a university. It
would have to wait to obtain funds from the city government and there were
contributions from people such as Pedro Cerbuna (the first and exemplary case of
an individual patron) with whose material support, no less enthusiasm, and
despite opposition from the Viceroy as the maximum representative of the
“central government”, classes began no fewer than forty years later in 1583.
The conference will be held in the most representative building of our
University:
The Paraninfo Building (1886-1893). It is one of the most successful works by the architect,
Ricardo Magdalena ; a building, which responds to the historicist
tendency of the time, where the models of the Renaissance Aragonese Palaces are
reintroduced. Following this tradition, it is made of brick, with application of
polychrome tiles and stucco relief. On the stone front four seated statutes
stand out, which represent
S. Ramón y Cajal
(Nobel Price 1906)
important doctors and scientists, one of whom is Miguel Servet. The whole unit was surrounded by solid and attractive iron railings, also designed by Magdalena, which disappeared in 1904.
The old Faculty of Medicine and Science of Zaragoza was the first to be
officially recognised in Spain. The Nobel Prize of Medicine, Santiago Ramon y
Cajal, studied here, later working as a professor. This fact is remembered on
the inside with a sculpture by Benlliure carried out in 1923. The Assembly Hall,
due to its capacity and excellence, became almost from the start, the University
Auditorium and the most solemn ceremonies take place here: the Inaugural Lessons
of each academic year (since 1911), the official celebrations of the day of
Saint Braulio and the investing of Doctors honoris causa.
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