Osuma University
The former
Currently, most of the originating agencies have been adapted and transformed into modern classrooms devoid of any artistic and architectural interest. However, the building retains its original structure only on the southeastern side, where the main entrance is located immediately to the gateway, the chapel, the hall of Girona, the central courtyard, the staircase that connects the upper floor, and the old library.
The latter is accessed from the main entrance and through an enclosed vestibule covered with a rectangular ceiling, two rows of beams on corbels decorated with inlay work.
Chapel
The chapel is covered with rectangular ceilings and two rows of beams that are carved and decorated with Plateresque motifs. The ceiling has beams in the center and shows Plateresque decorations alternating with interlaced bands and pineapples, and it stands on the rostrum of the high choir on the wooden sill.
The presbytery is at a higher level than the rest of the chapel, and its seat is located in a neoclassical altarpiece, which houses paintings from a former Renaissance altarpiece.
It is separated from the nave by a vain segmental arch covered with wrought-iron fence from the 16th century, consisting of two horizontal bands that divide the two bodies that comprise it, in which a decorative gilded Renaissance scrolls to the fire and is configured as an entablature.
The front ends represents the four evangelists sitting on a
marble bench. It shows, from left to right,
The last of the paintings is on the door. It presents a scene in which a court in an imaginary landscape is a palatial building surrounded by large trees and a river. Within this environment is a picnic scene in which games are played. Examples are galloping horsemen, shepherds, and dogs in the care of a herd.
The analysis of the shapes and the garments of the figures indicate that the date of execution of this work is around the first few years of the 18th century.
Between the two bands are downturning vertical bars, which are in the central part of the lower opening and gives access to the chapel. The top of the crest consists of a grid half made with turned bars, ending in points, and crowned with heraldic motifs.
The pulpit, made from wood, is located on the left wall of the chapel. It consists of stairs with balustrades of segmental arches of a rectangular body against the wall and a triangular pediment topped by a cross half-embedded in the wall.
Central Courtyard
The central courtyard is a square with a standard two-story porticos on all of its four fronts. The marble floor has Tuscan columns, which support half-point spans with a symmetrical bent.
The columns are located on the small pillars that connect to form a rectangular molding. The upper galleries are composed of columns on a high base, which span half-point segmental arches that are bent and covered with iron. Located in the center of the courtyard is curbstone well.
Sala Girona
The hall of Girona has a slightly rectangular floor. The upper part of its ornament is covered with wall paintings from the second half of the 16th century. The front end is represented by an enthroned Virgin Mary with baby Jesus in her arms; on either side are groups of angels who present or gift with symbols related to iconology of the Virgin. The composition is framed by scenes of angels, showing an architectural background in.
The right wall represents the four fathers of the church
sitting on chairs and surrounded by different books scattered on the floor.
From left to right appear
The composition is completed with architecture at the bottom, with the names of each character written.
The stairs on the southwestern side of the courtyard consist of rectangular spaces in which there are ladders in three installments. They are covered by a barrel vault with octagonal caissons.
The room that is the former library and now a dedicated hall is located near the chapel on the ground floor of the main entrance. It is accessed from a staircase in the gallery’s courtyard. There is a rectangular frame that is covered with very elongated arts.
External
The four walls of the exterior of the building are made of stone, with two plants in open, rectangular, and symmetrical windows. Town houses in the four corners of the building were erected, two of which are cylindrical and flank the main facade.
They consist of two bodies covered with polygonal Chapiteles. The other two towers flank the facade in the back. They are square, like buttresses, with two standard bodies topped with a pyramidal Chapiteles. The four towers are covered with blue and white ceramic.
The main facade is located on the southeast side of the building, introducing the ashlar stone facing. It opens to the side of the floor with two balconies in the middle that are flanked with columns and pediment.
The cover, which gives access to the interior of the property, is located off of the facade to its left side and shows half-point arches and ends with its outer contour molding, flanked on both sides, on high-columned town houses and an entablature finished on the ends with two pinnacles.
The cover has another center, like a roof, consisting of a central shell niche dome, which houses the image of the Virgin and Child. It is lined with columns and on the upper side with molding and pinnacles. There is a painting of a crown inside, which shows the logo of the Virgin.
Under Decree 346/2004 of May 18,