Castle-shaped building that presides over the Faculty of Medicine Western world's oldest. The power is still in use Mediciona Montpellier had not yet two centuries old when, in 1180, his master, William VIII signed a surprising decree by authorizing anyone regardless of religion or origin, to teach medicine in Montpellier. That was how, in the late eighteenth century, was born at the Medical University of the Western world's oldest still active.