Another small church of considerable antiquity is that of _San Felix de Solovio_, or, as the Gallegans call it, _San Fins de Lovio_. Sanchez thought this edifice older than San Benito; in fact he speaks of it as the oldest church in Santiago. The truth is that it was built on the ruins of an older church of the same name, which had been reduced to ashes by Almanzor and his followers. The present edifice has a graceful entrance, with four Byzantine columns supporting its two arches, the interior of which is in the shape of a horse-shoe, while the outer one is semicircular and decorated with diminutive arches also of the horse-shoe form; the whole being a curious mixture of the Romanesque and the Arabic styles. In the church, in a niche in the southern nave, is a sculptured group representing the Adoration of the Magi, which, like the entrance, dates from the twelfth century; it is quite Byzantine. The whole building underwent restoration at the beginning of the eighteenth century.
I have already alluded to the fine Square called _Plaza de Alonso XII._, of which the façade of the _Hospital Real_ and the Churrigueresque façade of the cathedral form two sides. Its other two sides are formed by the handsome _Consistorio_, which faces the Cathedral, and the façade of the _Colegio de San Jerónimo_. This last-named building dates from the first or second decade of the sixteenth century, and its striking façade is a mixture of the Romanesque and the Græco-Roman styles. At present the principal entrance is in the _Calle del Franco_, not far from that of the adjoining _Colegio de Fonseca_, and it is used as a normal school for boys, but it was formerly a college for poor students. An inscription on the southern wall of the Doric cloister tells us that in the year 1652 the ancient college of San Gerónimo (St. Jerome) was moved to this building. That was at the time when the monks of _San Martin Pinario_ were buying up the buildings round their monastery in order that the latter might be enlarged.