Comillas Major Seminary

After the construction of the Sobrellano complex, the only thing left for the Marquis to do was to promote a great "pious work" that would not only perpetuate his name but also help him to "earn his place in heaven". That is why he studied the possibility of building a large educational center of secondary education, finally it was destined to the Seminary of the Poor (later Pontifical University) directed by the Jesuits, whose teaching model triumphed since the seventeenth century. The plan of the building copied the usual structure of the buildings of the company (il modo nostro"), basically it is to bring together the different sections of the school around two arcaded courtyards. A rectangular plan is used, with the church framed by the two courtyards. Spacious churches were built, with easy access from the interior and exterior, eliminating the deep choirs. The construction was directed from 1883 by Joan Martorell, who used a very ornamental Gothic-Mudejar eclecticism, adding from 1889, the more modernist decoration directed by Luis Domenech y Montaner in the auditorium, public church, lobby, staircase, bronze door, mosaics and coffered ceilings, breaking the severity of the original building.