In order to bring cultural heritage closer to different localities in Navarre, the Chair of Heritage and Art of Navarre of the University of Navarra, organized with the sponsorship of the Government of Navarra and the City Council of Tudelaand the partnership of Diario de Navarra the summer course"Patrons, Promoters and Patrons of the Arts in Tudela", which took place from August 26th to 28th. More than 90 people filled the Dean's Palace. The course was inaugurated by Luis Casado, Mayor of Tudela, the Councilor for Culture, Merche San Pedro, and the director of the Chair, Ricardo Fernández Gracia. In their speeches they highlighted the importance of cultural heritage as a sign of identity and a driving force for development.

The first afternoon included the interventions of Mercedes Jover, director of the Museum of Navarre, who spoke about the three Gothic altarpieces of the cathedral. She explained the personalities of some of the ecclesiastics of the then collegiate church in their promotion and patronage of some works that continue to question the scholar and the visitor, such as the cathedral choir or the chapel of San Martín, fundamental in the introduction of the different phases of the Renaissance. He also contextualized in its peninsular and European importance the group of illustrious women of the Magallón palace, work of the Italian Pietro Morone, under the sponsorship of the Magallón family, in tune with the prevailing Humanism in some circles of Tudela in the 16th century.

For his part, Professor Ricardo Fernández Gracia, director of the Chair, offered an insight into the municipal sponsorship in the celebration of numerous festivals in past centuries, not only around Santa Ana, but other vows of the city as the Immaculate Conception made in 1619, San Francisco Javier in 1626 or Santa Teresa, declared patron saint of Tudela in 1627 at the behest of the king, after celebrating his beatification years earlier with all pomp, procession, bullfighting and bonfires.

Professor Ignacio Miguéliz replaced the scheduled lecture by Esteban Orta who, for personal reasons, left his participation for another time. As a specialist in sumptuary arts, he reviewed the promoters of different works in the city, especially silverware, showing unique pieces, many of them little known. Likewise, Professor María José Tarifa, from the University of Zaragoza, spoke on the Cathedral itself, the institutions, families, guilds, brotherhoods and personalities who held the board of trustees of the different chapels and the changes made in their dedications between the Age average and the present day.

Thursday afternoon was dedicated to the Baroque period, a time when the city experienced special moments in terms of the arts and therefore its vitality partner-economic. Dr. Carlos Carrasco analyzed through the stately architecture that remains standing some family lineages that, aware of their image, erected unique buildings and endowed them with important trousseaus. Dr. Pablo Guijarro analyzed the last phase of the 18th century around the Real Sociedad de Amigos del País and the leading figures of the Enlightenment period. Finally, Professor Fernández Gracia, in the church of the Compañía de María, closed the course with an explanation of the whys and wherefores of such a unique and novel building, with emphasis on its causes, and the reasons for its construction and financing.

The interest of the attendees has been in line with the rest of the summer courses that the Chair has organized in past years in different parts of the region such as Pamplona, Estella, Tafalla, Olite, Elizondo and Corella.