Monumento Elio Antonio de Nebrija

The Nebrija Centre is located in a historic building in the Plaza Rector Merina, opposite the parish church of Nuestra Señora de la Oliva and in the area where the sources indicate that the grammarian and Latinist Antonio de Nebrija (1444-1522) must have been born.

The building of the Nebrija Centre was formerly the Cilla del Cabildo. The two-storey Classicist façade remains from the original building, as the interior was renovated and refurbished as the former headquarters of the Casa de la Juventud de Lebrija (Lebrija Youth Centre).

The Nebrija Centre is an important addition to the permanent cultural offer of the municipality. Due to its characteristics and aims, this space is intended to fulfil a socio-cultural function, being a facility focused on the presentation, interpretation and dissemination of the humanist Antonio de Nebrija (1444-1522), in the place where he was born and where he spent the first years of his fruitful life, in Lebrija. It is a space designed for all audiences and ages, where the visitor can live an experience that combines learning and playful enjoyment in contact with a universal Andalusian of maximum historical relevance.

The ground floor of the Nebrija Centre is dedicated to contextualising the character in his historical period. It houses a model of the city around the year 1522 (the year of Elio Antonio's death), built on the basis of historical documentation, archaeological interventions and scientific hypotheses that, up to now, have been handled.