Palace

Japanese: palaestra
Palace

...Premodern schools, with the exception of universities, were often attached to other facilities (churches, monasteries, royal palaces, military barracks, etc.), and even when they were independent, they were often built by repurposing buildings for other purposes or borrowing their styles and techniques.
[Changes in Europe]
Among the ancient buildings used as schools were those called palaestra or gymnasium (both Latin names) in Greece and Rome. Both were originally sports facilities for wrestling training and other disciplines, with a colonnaded exercise area and surrounding baths, changing rooms, and lounges. It was customary for rhetoric and philosophy to be discussed in a corner of the colonnade or in the lounges during breaks in exercise, and they gradually took on a more school-like character.

*Some of the terminology explanations that mention "palaestra" are listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

Japanese:

…近代以前の学校は,大学を除けば,多くは他施設(教会や修道院,王宮,兵営など)に付随し,独立した場合でも,他用途の建物を転用するかその形式や手法を借用して造られたものが多かった。
【ヨーロッパにおける変遷】
 古代の建築で学校として用いられたものには,ギリシアやローマなどでパラエストラpalaestraあるいはギュムナシウムgymnasium(ともにラテン語)と呼ばれたものがある。いずれも本来はレスリングの訓練などの体育施設で,柱廊に囲まれた運動場と,その周囲に浴場や更衣室,談話室等を備え,運動の合間には柱廊の一隅や談話室などで修辞法や哲学の談義が交わされる習慣があり,しだいに学校的な性格を強めていった。…

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