Colegio de San Gregorio
| Colegio de San Gregorio | |
| Formerly a college, currently a museum | |
 View of the main facade
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| Name origin: Colegio de San Gregorio Spanish for college of Saint Gregory the Great | |
| Country | Spain |
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| Autonomous community | Castile and León |
| Comarca | Campiña del Pisuerga |
| Municipality |  Valladolid |
| Architects | Gil de Siloé, Simón de Colonia, Juan de Talavera, Juan Guas, Felipe Bigarny, Bartolomé Solórzano. |
| Style | Isabelline, Mudéjar. |
| Established | 1487 |
| - Initiated | 1488 |
| - Completion | 1496 |
| For public | Public |
| Visitation | Open |
| Heritage designation | Spanish Property of Cultural Interest |
| Registration name | Antiguo colegio de San Gregorio |
| Reference no. | RI-51-0000038 |
| Designated | 1884-1962 |
| Website: http://museoescultura.mcu.es/ | |
The Colegio de San Gregorio is an Isabelline style building located in the city of Valladolid, in Castile and León, Spain, it was formerly a college and now is housing the Museo Nacional de Escultura museum. This building is one of the best examples of the architectural style known as Isabelline, which is the characteristic architectural style of the Crown of Castile region during the Catholic Monarchs' reign (late-15th century to early-16th century).
Among other sections highlights its courtyard and its facade for its refined decoration, elegant proportions and the number of symbologies. It was founded as a teaching institution. Aimed at College of Theology for Dominican friars, it has acquired a doctrinal authority and acted as a spiritual and political hotbed in the Central region of Spain's Renaissance and Baroque periods.
The University of Valladolid was founded in the 13th-century during the Alfonso X of Castile the Wise's reign; as in other countries, the emergence of college centers was potentiated, then belatedly was created the Colegio de San Gregorio, who performed in parallel or complementarily in relation to university life. In Valladolid the Colegio Mayor Santa Cruz was also created also in late 15th-century.
The creation of the College, under the title of the Doctor of the Church Saint Gregory the Great, was work of Dominican Alonso de Burgos, the Catholic Monarchs's confessor and Bishop of the dioceses of Córdoba, Cuenca and Palencia. The foundation of the college was confirmed by with Papal Bull of Pope Innocent VIII in 1487, and accepted as Royal patronage by Queen Isabella the Catholic in 1500, after the founder's death.
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