Complejo Educativo de Cheste

South of Cheste, the education complex, the former Universidad Laboral, is a major piece of 1960s Spanish architecture. Moreno Barberá signed it in exposed concrete.

History

The complex went up in the sixties as a labour university, with halls, workshops and boarding for thousands of pupils. The Brutalist complex by Moreno Barberá arranged the programme in a concrete grid that critics have praised for decades.

What to see

The exposed-concrete halls, the courtyards and the scale of the complex, best read from outside. It is a working education building: see the outside with respect for school life. In the town stand the church of San Lucas and, outside, the circuit.

Tips for your visit

• Come on weekdays outside school hours to see it calmly.
• Do not enter the halls: it is a working school.