150th anniversary of the Spanish Academy in Rome

The Royal Academy of Spain in Rome, key in the training of generations of Spanish artists and intellectuals, celebrates its 150th anniversary. To celebrate it, it has organized an extensive program of activities that has the collaboration of different entities, among which is Acción Cultural Española. It is an opportunity to publicize its interesting history, but also its commitment to the future of culture.

The Academy is a center of cultural production and innovation and one of the greatest references for creators and researchers in Spain and Latin America. Through exhibitions, conferences, concerts or performances scheduled this year, it celebrates the century and a half of this unique public institution.

The Royal Academy of Spain in Rome is an institution of the General State Administration, founded in 1873, with Nicolás Salmerón being the head of the Government of the First Spanish Republic. In accordance with its founding act, the new educational center was born under its own cultural values in foreign policy, to "promote the national genius by offering" "our artists some field of study, some place of reflection and rehearsal, in the city that will be eternally the metropolis of art, in Rome». Its origin is born within the ideals of the Enlightenment that is found in the Spanish Academy of Fine Arts in Rome that was linked to the Royal Academy of Fine Arts of San Fernando in Madrid. In 2022, she was awarded the Gold Medal for Merit in Fine Arts awarded by the Spanish Ministry of Culture.