The University of Madrid during the first decade of Franco composed a complex mosaic in which political aspirations were mixed, different overlapping ideas about the university institution, complicated academic personalities (with difficult relationships between them at times), reaffirmed criteria regarding the University as a receptacle aesthetic, plastic and symbolic of academic and political power, and ultimately, various ways of understanding the nature and tasks of the University. According to these premises, this work investigates the traditional burdens and inheritances that remained at the University of Madrid even in times of dictatorship and, on the other hand, the ruptures that the new political process forced in the same institution. To take the pulse of ruptures and continuities, the work focuses on three main thematic axes. The first provides an approach to the legislative process that was undertaken by the regime to make the University an institution tailored to it and which immediately found a firm response from the University of Madrid, pressure that managed to bring some of the main Madrid claims. On the other hand, the reconstruction process of the University City of Madrid is analysed, the |