Spain announced the launch of its first gastronomic university on Monday.

The only other cooking institute with such a status in Europe is the University of Gastronomic Sciences in northern Italy.
The Spanish university teaches four-year degree courses for up to 100 students a year. For the first
discipline.
Several hundred guests including Spain's Crown Prince Felipe attended the inauguration of the Basque Culinary Center in the northern seaside town of San Sebastian, known for its fine restaurants.
The new institution is "a gastronomic science faculty and research centre," its spokesman Jose Luis Galiana told AFP. year, 74 students were admitted out of 380 candidates.
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Classes start on October 3.
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