The Paraninfo of the University of La Laguna is a versatile space, designed to host both academic acts and scenic conferences and shows.
It is one of the main elements of the Central Building of the ULL, which began to be built in the mid -30s of the twentieth century and would not be finished until 1962. Its design was the responsibility of the architects José Enrique Marrero Regalado and Domingo Pisaca, although it was the acting of the latter that would be fundamental in the configuration of the final aspect of the Paraninfo.
Equipped with a privileged acoustics for live voice, another of its outstanding elements is the pictorial decoration of its roof, Mariano de Cossio's work, in which allegories of the different branches of university knowledge are represented.
During their years of activity, the most important musicians and actors of the regional and national landscape passed through their scenario, which made the Paraninfo of the University of La Laguna one of the reference rooms in Tenerife.
In 2001 the property showed high signs of deterioration due to moisture, which advised its closure and restoration. After several delays, the rehabilitation project signed by the architect Pedro Domínguez-Anadón would begin to be executed in 2007, to complete at the end of 2009, at which time the public is reopened again.
