House of Studies · Villanueva de los Infantes (EN)

Former Colegio Menor. The courtyard is one of the most beautiful in Villanueva de los Infantes with its groin vaults and wooden balustrade, and served as a Grammar School, where Bartolomé Jiménez Patón, a distinguished grammarian, teacher of Humanities and Rhetoric who had a strong influence among philosophers and writers, as well as a friend of Francisco de Quevedo and Lope de Vega, taught, among others.among the facilities of the Casa de los Estudios are two recently museumized rooms. The first floor room presents the history of the building and its educational context, with facsimile editions of original documents, copies of works by Bartolomé Jiménez Patón and a facsimile of the manuscript of Regidor cristiano by Fernando de Ballesteros Saavedra, as well as the translation of Utopia by Tomás Moro made in this House. In the upper room, a 17th century classroom where Jiménez Patón taught has been recreated, evoking the academic atmosphere of the time and underlining the importance of the Casa de los Estudios as one of the most important cultural and educational centers of its time.