The College of Spain, founded by Cardinal Egidio Albornos (1310-1367) as the "domus hispanica", also known as the Royal College of San Clemente degli Spagnoli and the Royal College of Spain, is a university college for Spanish students based in a medieval university, the most famous of the twenty four founded between the thirteenth and seventeenth centuries. It is the oldest college in the world open to international students, inheritor of the phenomenon of nations in the tradition of the medieval university, and also the only one of its kind preserved in continental Europe.→