Various buildings, style neomudéjar, make up the Student's residence. It is located on a hill in the capital, known as Altos del Hipódromo. But one of its most illustrious inhabitants, Juan Ramon Jimenez, who lived there until he got married, renamed it the Poplar Hill. The four oleanders planted by the poet and writer still bloom in the garden.

They began to be built in 1913 with a project by the architect Antonio Flórez Urdapilleta. Very modern buildings, equipped with the best advances of the time and with facilities with light and the sun as the protagonists.

The Residence was founded in 1910 by the Board for Expansion of Studies. Fruit of the innovative ideas promoted in Spain by the Krausist Francisco Giner de los Rios which he founded in 1876 of the Free Institution of Education.

Alberto Jimenez Fraud, from Malaga, linked to the Institución Libre de Enseñanza and Krausism, was its first director, a period in which the Residency became a cultural hotbed of artistic and scientific creation and exchange.

At that time, three key figures of 20th century Spanish culture met at the Residence: the filmmaker Luis Buñuel, the poet Federico Garcia Lorca and the painter Salvador Dalí. But there are many more: José Bello, "Pepín Bello", the composer Salvador Bacarisse and José Moreno Villa. Another regular at the meetings that the group held at the Residence was Rafael Alberti. The poet Jorge Guillén was a resident and, as we wrote before, Juan Ramón Jiménez was one of his most frequent guests. Severo Ochoa was also a resident, as were many other intellectuals: Miguel de Unamuno, Alfonso Reyes Ochoa, Manuel de Falla, José Ortega y Gasset, Pedro Salinas, Blas Cabrera, Eugenio d'Ors, Manuel Altolaguirre and many others who motivated the establishment at that time. called it the Silver Age.

La Civil War abruptly ended the activities of the Residence. Starting in 1939, the Board of Expansion of Studies and most of the facilities of the “Colina de los Chopos” became dependent on the Higher Council for Scientific Research (CSIC).

The Student Residence is currently a private foundation, created by the Higher Council for Scientific Research, this second period begins in 1986 and is dedicated, fundamentally, to the recovery of the historical memory of the so-called Silver age of Spanish culture (1868–1936), the name taken by the portal where the Residency's publications are offered.

Visits to the Residence are also organized and the recovery of one of the rooms is especially curious to make us remember what that interesting moment in Spanish cultural life and especially the cultural life of Madrid was like.

A abrazo.