This theatre, Europe’s oldest (1601) was originally a rectangular open space. The audience sat or stood on the stone floor (still visible beneath the modern flooring). A rostrum or “balcon de las aparencias” was added, and then a roof. In 1800 it too..

This building is now occupied by the offices of the university and stands on Plaza San Diego, near to Plaza Cervantès. Its fine plateresque façade (1543), the work of Rodrigo Gil de Hontañón, is made up of three sections crowned by a balustrade. Yo..

Houses the finely sculpted mausoleum of Cardinal Cisneros, by Fancelli and Bartolomé Ordóñez. Fine Mudéjar «artesonado» ceiling .