Exterior view

Toledo owes many of its functional buildings - a new sword factory, a mental asylum, and the university - to the far-sightedness of Cardinal Francisco Antonio de Lorenzana. The university was built by Ignacio Haan, a pupil of Sabatini and a scholarship holder in Rome, who created two buildings that represent the pinnacle of their age. The university, with its dignified Ionic patio from 1790 and Corinthian assembly hall, the auditorium, merge unobtrusively into the modest architectural scale of Toledo in spite of their monumentality and marked differences in height.

The photo shows the inner courtyard of the university.