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Einstein's visit to Spain in 1923 caused a huge expectation in the media and general public. He visited Barcelona , Madrid and Zaragoza , where he gave lectures at the most important institutions and came into contact with the most important scientists and intellectuals at the time.
Activities
	• Lectures on the restricted and general relativity. One of them was traslated by Ortega y Gasset. • Conference on the current problems of relativity at the Faculty of Sciences at the Central University of Barcelona. • Appointed Doctor Honoris Causa by the Central University of Madrid . • Meeting with members of the Society of Mathematics and the Nobel Prize Ramón y Cajal. • Conference at the “Residencia de Estudiantes” of Madrid .

	He is received by the King and Queen mother at the Royal Palace and King Alfonso XIII appoints him member of the Academy.
History of the residence of Students

It was founded in 1910 by The Board of Extended Studies and became the first cultural centre of Spain and the first to make artistic and scientific exchanges within Europe . Among its residents emerged many of the most important figures of the Spanish culture of the twentieth century. Today it has regained the importance of the 1920s while keeping its role of accommodation, addressed to researchers, artists and creators in various fields and of various backgrounds.
Important Residents at the beginning of the 20 century

Salvador Dalí, José Moreno Villa, Luis Buñuel, Federico García Lorca y José Antonio Rubio Sacristán	Miguel de Unamuno was a Spanish writer and philosopher. In his works he cultivaded a variety of literary generes.	Federico García Lorca was a Spanish poet and playwright. Assigned to so-called Generation of 27, he is the most influential and popular poet of the Spanish literature of the twentieth century.


Luis Buñuel was a Spanish-Mexican film director, considered one of the most important and original in the history of world cinema.	Severo Ochoa was a Spanish scientist. Honored in 1959 with the Nobel Prize in Physiologyor Medicine.		José Ortega y Gasset was one of the most important Spanish philosophers of the 20th century.

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