Pontifical University of Salamanca — Local services in Salamanca

Our 2019 Spain travel was filled with adventure, great food & wine and history.

The College of the Holy Spirit was our next stop, encountering the first ‘rude’ person in Spain -a female tour guide- as the tour was only provided in Spanish –even though there were 6 English speakers in the group- and when I volunteered to translate, the woman tour guide told me that would interfere with her thinking process.

Since there was only two people who spoke Spanish and all others were Irish, British and Americans, we stayed back a bit and I tried to tell them what was going on.

The building works of this impressive monument started in 1617, taking 150 years to be completed.

The college was founded by Kings Phillip III and his wife Margaret of Austria, in order to provide a place for the training of Jesuit novices, who might go on mission to evangelize the four corners of the world. Queen Margaret took a very personal interest in founding a university, college for the Jesuits in Salamanca, due to the considerable academic prestige of this city.

However, before the building was finished, the Pragmatic Sanction of King Charles III banished the Society of Jesus from Spain in 1767, and subsequently the building was divided into 4 different spaces.

The Church and sacristy, set apart from the rest of the building, were entrusted to the clergy of the Real Clerics of San Marcos, a royal school, which was never set up due to the opposition from the local bishop D. Felipe Beltran, the College of Noble Irishmen or seminary for the Irish, as well as the local diocesan seminary of Salamanca.

While rather interesting, tour is only given in Spanish and after that experience, if we would have known, we would have told her to remain silent and we would have simply followed her to see the treasures found in...

Interesados en Máster de Psicopedagogía con Begoña Diaz.

Quiero compartir la desagradable experiencia con mi admisión de máster. En la página web no pone nada sobre los perfiles de acceso al máster, así que llamé para preguntar. La persona en recepción me dijo que sin problema con mi titulación podía acceder al máster y que no hacía falta homologar mi título de Reino Unido. Al haber prácticas de máster, involucré al centro educativo en el que trabajo, conseguí una mentora y la aprobación del tiempo por parte del director del colegio. Hice la pre-matrícula, y el día en que salió la lista de admitidos, yo no estaba en ella. Llamo para saber el motivo, ya que hay muchas plazas vacantes (¡mas de 20!). Me dicen que por mi titulación, pero que hable con la directora Begoña Díaz. Desafortunadamente, la directora del máster publicó el listado de alumnos y el mismo día se fue de vacaciones sin contestar llamadas o emails, siendo imposible contactarla y aclarar si es un malentendido o si alguien en recepción me dio información incorrecta. Siento que este trato es muy poco profesional y me quedo muy descontenta. Sobre todo después de haber pagado por el chequeo de la información, que otras universidades lo hacen sin pedir ninguna cuota.

Creo que no costaba mucho mandar un email diciendo los motivos por los que no te pueden admitir. También me parece de broma que los criterios de admisión no estén expuestos en la página del máster y que admisión poco más pueda hacer para ayudarte, a pesar de entender lo injusto de...

This is definitely one of the most beautiful university I have visited. Of course heavy religious influence as you could see in the pictures! You have visit with a tour guide and Spanish only but I still opted for it plus the visit of Scala. The view up the scala covers the entire city and as soon as I got up to the top it started to rain. The gloomy sky and the double rainbow made it a magical moment to be...