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The University of Lleida (Catalan: Universitat de Lleida, Spanish: Universidad de Lleida) is the second oldest Spanish university, and historically, the oldest in Catalonia and the whole Crown of Aragon. It was founded between 1297 and 1301, probably with the name of Estudi General in the style of other Universities founded at that time (such as the University of Valencia), and closed down through a royal law ("Real Cédula") in 1717 along with the banning of the rest of Catalan Universities and the original political institutions of Catalonia. Felipe V founded a University in Cervera, a town 70 km. east of Lleida which had supported him in the Spanish War of Succession in 1713. It was refounded in 1991 after a few hundred years parentheses, and since then, besides the historical central edification located in what is nowadays the town district called Universitat, new buildings have been added to it. It's located in the Catalan town of Lleida, Spain.
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