INTERNATIONAL CENTER
FOR ADVANCED TECHNOLOGIES
From Peñaranda to the world
The Fundación Germán Sánchez Ruipérez is set on the elimination of any obstacles between people and culture, and this objective becomes real in the creation of several technical centres from where this task is undertaken. One of these is the International Centre for Advanced Rural Technology (CITA, in Spanish), a space devoted to the training and dissemination of the use of new technologies.
Its main purpose is to prevent the rural world from being left out of the new communication highways. Similarly, among its objectives is to help get the information society becoming the knowledge society, and that this new literacy opens access to new action opportunities, even for those who live in rural areas.
The CITA was opened in 2006. Its three modern buildings have been designed by architects Álvaro Siza and Juan Miguel Hernández León. In their 2,300m2 there are three main areas: the auditorium, the crystal cube and the classrooms. Each one of these spaces has all the necessary infrastructure to cover the training needs of the centre and its users.