Orihuela Health & Education

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Before all health centers were linked to Oriolanos Health Department No. 21, the creation of a new hospital in Torrevieja on November 21, 2006, became part of Health Department No. 22, and centers and health clinics in the rural Torremendo and Dehesa de Campoamor (Orihuela Costa) areas were linked to it.

The Health Department is composed of 22 basic health areas—6, 9, 10, 11 and 12 of the former Area Health Orihuela. The municipality also has a local assembly of the Spanish Red Cross, in addition to an emergency location near the national highway 340 and other small posts along the Orihuela coast.

Private Schools

Diocesan Seminary of San Miguel. Only secondary education that is both compulsory and noncompulsory (Bachillerato).

Special Training

College of Art and Design.

Official School of Languages Orihuela.

School of Dance.

Conservatorio Profesional de Musica.

Center for Training of Adults.

Universities

Orihuela is known as University City because it has three universities. There are two venues for the University Miguel Hernandez de Elche (UMH), belonging to the Polytechnic School of Orihuela EPSO and the Faculty of Social Sciences and Law; FCSJO is the University of Santo Domingo, now used as a private school.

However, the university tradition of the city began in the 16th century. It is believed that the number of Muslim intellectuals who were in the city in the 11th and 12th centuries may have had higher centers of studies that were equivalent to the university (Catholic institution building).

In Orihuela, in the parish of St. Bartholomew, is the Hospital de la Vega Baja del Segura (Hospital Vega Baja de Orihuela), which is a reference of the Health Department 21 of the Valencian Health. Main health centers are located, in addition to Orihuela, in Albatera, Almoradi, Bigastro, Callosa de Segura, and Dolores.

The health centers located in Orihuela are:

Health Center 1—Rabaloche;

Health Center 2—Doctor Alvarez de la Riva; and

Health Center 3—Orihuela Costa.

It also has the only Department’s Specialty Center, located at Avenida Teodomiro, a nominated specialties center in Orihuela.

Also in each parish of Orihuela is a doctor for basic pediatric care, ATS, vaccinations, etc.

 

Primary and Secondary Schools

Maria Jesus San Agustin College, secondary offering nonmandatory training cycles.

Colegio Jesus Maria San Isidro.

College Diocesano Santo Domingo, offering noncompulsory secondary education (high school).

Diocesan College Oratorio Festivo.

Diocesan College San Jose Obrero. Offers noncompulsory secondary education (vocational training).

Colegio Nuestra Senora del Carmen.

College Oleza.

Royal and Pontifical University of Orihuela

University of Orihuela

Its origin is at the foundation of Cardinal Loazes, who created the Colegio del Patriarca according to his rank of Patriarch of Antioch in the year 1547. He wanted the school for preachers, who accepted it and were very happy to have a school constructed near their convent, in the city created by bull of Pope Julius II (1510).

In 1552 Pope Julius III was granted papal privilege by the rank of University College. In 1569 Pope Pius IV was granted the rank of papal bull by university papal. King Philip IV, by Royal Charter of 1646, granted the title Royal to the Pontificia Universidad de Orihuela, Universidad de Regia, and General Public.

Education

The population and size of the municipality has cause development of, at present, nearly 40 schools, public and private.

Public Schools

Primary and Secondary Schools

C. P. Villar Palasio in Orihuela city

C. P. Virgen de la Puerta, in Orihuela city

C. P. Miguel Hernandez in Orihuela city

C. P. Fernando de Loazes in Orihuela city

College Azahar in Matanza

C. P. Andres Manjon in Orihuela city

C. P. Manuel Riquelme in Hurchillo

C. P. Molins in Molins

C. P. Francisco Girona in Arneva

C. P. Maestro Ismael Garcia, La Murada

C. P. The Dols in Urbanizacion Playa Flamenca, Orihuela Costa

C. P. Playas de Orihuela, Orihuela Costa

C. P. Our Lady of Bethlehem, in Aparecida

C. P. Our Lady of Pilar, in Campanet

C. P. Rincon de Bonanza, in Raiguero

C. P. San Bartolome, San Bartolome

C. P. Virgen de los Desamparados in Los Desamparados

C. P. Virgn Monserrate, in Torremendo

C. P. Special Education Sequeros Antonio in Orihuela city.

Institutes of Secondary Education

IES Gabriel Miro

The IES Espenetas

IES Palmeral

IES Thader

IES Playa Flamenca

The university is one of the principals in the kingdom and one of the few to collect the titles of Royal and Pontifical (next to Alcala de Henares and Salamanca and Complutense). Its significance came to be such that if this was the opinion of their teachers, to the point that, in its worst moments as the promulgation of abolition in 1818 (which did not take effect until 1835), its prestige was conferred to be consulted in the Draft Criminal Code of 1823.

Several universities were looking to establish prestige, leaving many legal and medical students as well as lawyers for the hearings and the Chancellery of Valladolid and Granada, reaching the rank of some viceroys in New Spain or Peru.

Universidad Miguel Hernandez

Orihuela has two campuses, the Campus Salesas and the Campus Desamparados.

Campus Desamparados: It houses the School of Orihuela (EPSO), located in rural Los Desamparados. The Campus Desamparados is the largest university in Europe, besides having one of the few copies of Barraca Valenciana de Alicante.

In addition, the campus is located in the building of the laboratory, the library’s central campus, as well as one of the two University Centers of Management (one in Orihuela and the other in Elche).

Also, in one of the buildings is the Museum of Science Teaching Orihuela (MUDIC), which opened in November 2008 by George Smooth, the 2006 Nobel Prize winner for Physics; there are also sports facilities available.

Campus of Salesas: It is the Faculty of Social Sciences and Law FCSJ and is situated near the monastery of the salts and the Church of Santa Justa y Rufina, bearing walls in Plazas of salts, Antonio Balaguer, and universities. Just below this site is the Museo de la Muralla.

Awards the following degrees:

Bachelor of Business Administration and BA in Political Science and Public Administration.

Engineering: Agricultural engineer.

Technical Engineering: Agricultural engineering, specializing in farms; agricultural engineering, specializing in horticulture and gardening; agricultural engineering, specializing in agricultural and food industries; diploma in management.

Runs Second Cycle Only: Bachelor of science and food technology and bachelor of oenology.

 

Second Cycle and Engineering: Second cycle and agricultural engineering; second cycle degree in business administration; second cycle degree in political science and public administration.

There are also several masters and postgraduate programs.

The university annually celebrates “Terrorism and International Congress of Penal Law, a city of Orihuela and the Congress of Constitutional Law.”

The University Miguel Hernandez hosts numerous summer courses. A new establishment is expected, and an expansion of the campus of the salts is being worked on as well. The creation of two new buildings is projected on the campus of the salts.

University of Alicante. Campus de Santo Domingo in Orihuela

In 1999 the college was established in Santo Domingo, the campus Orihuela [145] of the University of Alicante, in order to accommodate some degree such as a diploma in tourism, technical architecture, and bachelor’s of architecture, among others.

In turn, it is considered one of the venues for the summer courses that are organized every year by the university relating to geography, environment, art, and history.

Campus Santo Domingo is the headquarters of the Fernando Cardenal Loazes Department of Institutes, created by the university and the Diocese of Orihuela, cochaired by the rector of the university and the bishop of Orihuela.

Also in 1999, an agreement was signed between the university and the bishop with the aim of giving some historical legitimacy to the University of Alicante to consider the heir to the Royal and Pontifical University of Orihuela; legitimacy is not unrealistic to have headquarters in the same building or in the same city.

It was thus the only university in the arc that extended from Alcala de Henares (founded by Cisneros in 1512), Valencia (Catholicism founded by Fernando 1502), and Granada (founded by Charles I of Spain in 1531).

The university was set to be closed in 1818, but the closing was postponed to 1835. The real reason for its removal was the University of Valencia, which played host to King Ferdinand VII on his returns to Spain.

The teachings of the university had been renovated in the 17th century, with King Philip IV developing a new constitution. Also, the Age of Enlightenment was an attempt to further the reform.

Some study courses in the university were civil law, canon law, medicine, theology, philosophy, etc. In addition to the teachings in this university, the order of the Jesuits believed in their convent of Orihuela (currently Monastery of the Sisters Salesas), so the Chairs of Rhetoric and Grammar extend the General Survey.