Oñate

Oñati lies in a mountain valley of the Basque country. Its most distinguished foundation was the College and University of Sancti Spiritus, established through the patronage of Rodrigo Mercado de Zuazola, a native of the town who became bishop of Ávila. A papal bull in 1540 granted the institution privileges comparable to those of the great universities, and it taught theology and law to students from the Basque provinces and Navarre.