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Where every newcomer learns to read a stone. The College grew in layers: its ground floor is the cloister of a convent in New Spain, grey stone and red volcanic tezontle around a courtyard of orange trees; its upper storeys are Cambridge red brick with oriel windows, added the year the College ran out of room. The lecture halls are open to anyone, and the best lectures are given in the kitchen, where Sor Juana teaches geometry with whatever is in the pan. The library holds four thousand volumes ...
Located in Cité des Dames.