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The University of Alcalá, awarded for its heritage conservation

The University of Alcalá has been awarded with the Hispania Nostra Award 2013 in the category of “Heritage Conservation as a factor of economic and social development” for its “ongoing commitment to the recovery of the Cultural Heritage of Alcalá de Henares”.

The prize was awarded for its exemplary recovery of primitive buildings that had been neglected or transformed, contributing to the revitalization of the historic center, creating economic and social activity, setting effective population and returning to the original concept of the City of Knowledge defined by cardinal Cisneros.

Since its reintroduction in 1977 until 2013, the University of Alcalá returned to the teaching twenty of the forty two schools that formed it in 1836, also recovering the gaps of their cloisters and gardens, preserving endangered animal species associated, and replacing, at least in part, the immense and valuable movable and intangible heritage lost.

The jury also found relevant administrative, economic and legal cooperation between the institutions participating in the project, the integration of contemporary construction techniques restorations, actions that can become a paradigm for other historical cities of university character.

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The upper pictures shows the Colegio convento de Carmen Calzado, which currently houses the studios of Architecture, Geodesy and Cartography. The fourth picture corresponds to the Colegio Máximo de la Compañía de Jesús, currently Law School. (pictures: www.hispanianostra.org)

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