page_title: Instituto Cervantes
section_title: Locations
hierarchical_section_title: Instituto Cervantes / Locations
caption_attribution_description: English: New York - Looking northeast across 49th at Instituto on a cloudy day. ZIP 10017.
context_page_description: Instituto Cervantes is a worldwide non-profit organization created by the Spanish government in 1991. It is named after Miguel de Cervantes, the author of Don Quixote and perhaps the most important figure in the history of Spanish literature. The Cervantes Institute, a government agency, is the largest organization in the world responsible for promoting the study and the teaching of Spanish language and culture.
  This organization has branched out in over 45 different countries with 86 centres devoted to the Spanish and Hispanic American culture and Spanish Language. Article 3 of Law 7/1991, created by the Instituto Cervantes on March 21, explains that the ultimate goals of the Institute are to promote the education, the study and the use of Spanish universally as a second language, to support the methods and activities that would help the process of Spanish language education, and to contribute to the advancement of the Spanish and Hispanic American cultures throughout non-Spanish-speaking countries.
context_section_description: The Instituto Cervantes has developed its educational project on a system of local institutions and centres:
  Centros Cervantes (full-fledged centres)
  Aulas Cervantes (smaller "lecture halls")
  Network of Centros Acreditados and Centros Asociados.
  A representative list follows, the most recent and complete list can be found at www.cervantes.es.
  Centros Cervantes:
  Europe
   Austria (Vienna)
   Belgium (Brussels)
   Bulgaria (Sofia)
   Cyprus (Nicosia)
   Czech Republic (Prague)
   France (Bordeaux, Lyon, Paris, Toulouse)
   Germany (Berlin, Bremen, Frankfurt am Main, Hamburg, Munich)
   Greece (Athens) The original Athens Cervantes Institute opened in 1992; in March 2010, Greek-born Queen Sofia of Spain opened its new building.
   Hungary (Budapest)
   Ireland (Dublin, see 53.341975°N 6.251575°W)
   Italy (Milan, Naples, Palermo, Rome)
   Netherlands (Utrecht)
   Poland (Warsaw, Kraków)
   Portugal (Lisbon)
   Romania (Bucharest)
   Serbia (Belgrade)
   Sweden (Stockholm)
   United Kingdom (Leeds, London, Manchester)
   Russia (Moscow)
   Turkey (Istanbul)
  Africa
   Algeria (Algiers, Oran)
   Egypt (Cairo, Alexandria)
   Morocco (Casablanca, Fes, Rabat, Tangier, Tétouan, Marrakesh)
   Syria (Damascus)
   Tunisia (Tunis)
  Middle East
   Israel (Tel Aviv)
   Jordan (Amman)
   Lebanon (Beirut, Kaslik, Tripoli, Lebanon)
  America
   United States (Albuquerque, Boston, Boston University, Chicago, New York, Seattle, U. of Washington)
   Brazil (Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo, Brasília, Salvador, Belo Horizonte, Porto Alegre, Recife, Curitiba)
  Asia
   China (Beijing, Shanghai)
   India (New Delhi)
   Japan (Tokyo)
   Philippines (Manila)
  Oceania
   Australia (Instituto Cervantes Sydney)
  Centros Acreditados
   Spain
  Asia
   Hong Kong
   Singapore
  Centros Asociados:
   Europe
   Ireland (Cork, see University College Cork, Department of Hispanic Studies)
  Aulas Cervantes:
   Europe
   Bulgaria (Sofia)
   Croatia (Zagreb)
   Slovakia (Bratislava)
   Slovenia (Liubliana)
  Africa
   Algeria (Annaba, Tlemcen)
   Morocco (Nador)
  Asia
   Indonesia (Jakarta)
   Malaysia (Kuala Lumpur)
   Vietnam (Hanoi)
caption: New York
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