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HALL OF GRAMMAR AND MUSEUM:
The premises of the anterior Llullian School were
rebuilt and a grammar school was set up in the ancient building, dated 1510 with
an annual pension of 50 pounds, depending on the Dean and Councillors of the
Llullian School established in the General Study of the Town.
The growth
undergone by the Randa School caused the Jurymen of the Kingdom of Majorca, to
facilitate and favour learning the young, to project the amplification of
professorships and there set up a General Study where Grammar, Rhetoric and
Greek would be taught. This was dealt with and agreed at the session of May at
1553.
At that time the foundations of the magnificent school hall were laid
down, as efficient as ¡t is monumental, of the greatest solidity. In 1566 around
one hundred pupils lived in the school. In 1588 there were already between one
hundred and fifty and one hundred and sixty.
Behind the professor's chair
there was an altar dedicated to Saint Catherine, Virgin and Martyr, whose image
was to be seen in a painting; she was the student's Patron Saint.
In XIX
century witnessed the final process of decadence witch the political authorities
allowed the School to take. On January 25th 1826, Juan Pablo Abrines handed in
his resignation as the school's last professor. His resignation was
accepted.
Today certain religious objects and books relating to the cult are
still preserved in the Grammar Hall; there are also other books, printings or
manuscripts related with Llullism; others, of different subjects, have their
relative antiquity as common denominator. Also, a collection of paintings of
fundamentally religious type hangs on the wall. There are shelves containing
different representation of Ramon Llull and a small collection of typical
Majorcan earthenware pots.
There are also two small rooms, one with plans
and partial and global projects of buildings; the other contains different
objects and articles of various uses and origins worthy of note is the
collection of Licor Randa bottles, for a long time made in the Sanctuary and
also a valuable copy of a map of Majorca.
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