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				COMILLAS, TOWN OF THE PICTURESQUE AND THE MODERN		Town of the Picturesque The Marquises of Comillas Sobrellano Pontificial University Capricho de Gaudí Further works Town Map
				The Pontificial University School.
		Pontificial University		After the building of the Sobrellano architectural ensemble, the only thing left for the Marquis to do was to prompt a great "pious work", which not only would perpetuate his name but also would help him to "gain heaven". In the 17th century, Don Juan Antonio Gómez de la Reguera already financed the works performed in Comillas by the Real Seminario del Cantábrico (Royal Seminary of the Cantabrian coast), in line with an indianos mentality. However, the work prompted by the Marquis consisted of a Seminary for the poor (later the Pontificial University School) as a big teaching centre run by the Jesuits. The building plan emulated the usual structure of the school buildings of the Society. Its construction was managed since 1883 by Juan Martorell, using a very ornamental Gothic-Mudejar eclecticism with the addition in 1889 of a more Modernist décor by Luis Doménech and Montaner in the assembly hall, public church, lobby, stairs, bronze doors, mosaics and caissoned ceilings.

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