Alcala University's main hall paraninfo in the historic campus in the city centre, Alcala de Henares, Madrid province, Spain. The Auditorium of the U
Alcala University's main hall paraninfo in the historic campus in the city centre, Alcala de Henares, Madrid province, Spain. The Auditorium of the University of Alcalá is the main hall of the university based in Alcalá de Henares. It was built between 1516 and 1520 by Pedro de la Cotera, by order of Cardinal Cisneros. Numerous solemn acts take place in it, highlighting the annual ceremony of the Cervantes Awards. The auditorium or academic theater was designed and built by Pedro de la Cotera between 1516 and 1520, following the indications of Cardinal Cisneros, who could not see it finished, when he died in 1517. The plasterwork was worked with a knife by Gutiérrez de Cárdenas and Pedro de Villarroel, and the carpentry was the work of Andrés de Zamora, Bartolomé Aguilar, Pedro Izquierdo and Hernando de Sahagún. In this space, important academic acts of the University of Alcalá were held between the 16th and 19th centuries (inaugurations and closings of the courses, graduations, legal opinions, master classes, and inaugurations of "masters" in arts, canons, philosophy, medicine, theology, Latin or Greek grammar) and other activities of great political and cultural relevance.
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