Located next to the Plateresque façade, the Rector’s House was a Neoclassical addition created by the architect Andrés García de Quiñones, and finished in 1762. However, and more importantly, it was the house in which Unamuno and his family lived during his first term as a rector, between 1900 and 1914. He had his office on the ground floor and the living quarters on the first floor, and in this house his last children were born and he wrote his works from that period, including Amor y pedagogía (Love and Pedagogy), Niebla (Mist), Vida de don Quijote y Sancho (Our Lord Don Quixote), Del sentimiento trágico de la vida (The Tragic Sense of Life) , Poesías (Poems), or his Rosario lírico de sonetos (Rosary of Lyric Sonnets), among others.
In 1954, on occasion of the celebration of the 7th centenary of the University of Salamanca, the building was transformed into the Unamuno House Museum, and it contains and exhibits different objects, furniture and fittings that belonged to him, as well as his library and his archives, donated by the family of the rector, together with other materials related to his work or his life. The House Museum is also a research center focused on his figure.
© of the images: Santiago Santos
