Universidad de Oviedo

This elegant 17th-century building, set around two superposed cloisters, was originally home to the University of Oviedo’s schools of Arts, Theology & Law. Nowadays it’s an administrative house and library, but well worth a wander. In the centre sits the majestic statue of Fernando de Valdés Salas, the university’s founder, while the arcaded cloister’s columns still bear bullet holes from the civil war.