For all those who are interested in the history of this university, we will tell you about its beginnings until today.
Many people consider that universities are something current or that at most they began to exist back in 1900, but the reality is that we have to go back to the year 1130, when talk of Cathedral Schools began.
Let’s move on to the reign of Alfonso IX of León where, in 1218, the category of General Study of the Cathedral Schools due to the quality of the teaching that is imparted in its classrooms. It is at this moment that the birth of the “Studii salmantini” begins to be discussed, where teaching is open to all audiences and there are even chairs of Canon Law, Civil Law, Medicine, Logic, Grammar and Music.
After these first years, there were many kings who succeeded and who gave the importance that it deserved both to the university and to the culture that could be obtained in these universities. To give you an idea of the relevance, it was the first university in Europe to acquire that name and in turn, the first that had a public library but you also have to imagine these schools as they were then, without their own buildings and teaching both in areas of the old cathedral and in rented houses or wherever they could.
If we go back to May 8, 1254 during the reign of Alfonso X, on that day the University of Salamanca is constituted as royal and pontifical.
The most varied characters have passed through the classrooms of this university, for example, Miguel de Unamuno became rector three times, Fernando de Rojas, Antonio de Nebrija, Calderón de la Barca, Francisco Tomás y Valiente, Enrique Tierno Galván and a long etc. A University of Excellence steeped in history.