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9 unusual facts about University of Seville


Casco Antiguo

The University of Seville is mainly based in the former Royal Tobacco Factory in the south of the Casco Antiguo, the setting to the story and opera Carmen.

Gualberto Garcia Perez

From this period, the first Cycle of the New Music at the University of Seville stands out.

Jorge Guillén

He became the lector at Oxford University from 1929 to 1931, and was appointed to a professorship at the University of Seville in 1932.

José María Moreno

In 1970 he began his undergraduate studies at the Facultad de Filosofía y Letras in the University of Seville and started the first of a two year study at the Conservatory of Music and Drama of the Andalucian capital.

Juan Donoso Cortés

At the age of eleven, he had finished his education in the humanities, and at twelve had begun the study of law at the University of Salamanca; at sixteen he received his degree of licentiate from the University of Seville, and at eighteen became professor of literature at the College of Caceres.

Nervión, Seville

The Facultad de Ciencias Económicas y Empresariales (School of Business) of the University of Seville is located in this neighborhood.

Reiji Nagakawa

Between 1988 and 1992 he became a senior instructor of Japanese in the University of Seville.

University of Seville

This beautiful building is also the setting for the renowned opera, Carmen, by Bizet.

Carmen was a fictional worker in the tobacco factory, the original story being a novella by Prosper Mérimée.



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