Diocesan Seminary Sto. Domingo de Guzmán

XVIII century Building originally financed by Joaquín Eleta. The works began in 1785, being inaugurated in 1791. Luis Bernasconi was in charge of the design and direction of the work. The building has a quadrangular floor plan with a central courtyard. On the first floor were built the chapel (today the assembly hall), the refectory, the kitchen and the pantry; on the second floor, around the courtyard, the various classrooms were arranged; the second floor was reserved for the rooms. The façade is built of masonry with ashlars framing the openings. The semicircular arch of the doorway is flanked by pilasters that support a curved pediment. Above the doorway is the magnificent coat of arms of Bishop Eleta, at whose expense the Seminary was built. In the upper part of the coat of arms are the arms of the Eleta family of Navarre and in the lower part are the arms of the Inquisition, of which the royal confessor was dean. The shield is surrounded by the cord of the Franciscans and crowned by the archiepiscopal capelet. The initial nucleus of Eleta was enlarged in the middle of the 19th century with two wings on each side, which protrude from the original façade line. Other enlargement works, already in the 20th century, gave more height to the building and endowed the chapel of the Minor Seminary, today a museum of Holy Week, to the east of the façade, which shows a façade with Herrerian classicist influences.