With more than 80,000 students a year, the Instituto Cervantes is the biggest world institution dedicated to the teaching of the Spanish language. It was awarded with Prince of Asturias Award in 2005 in the Communication and Humanities category. Instituto Cervantes was inaugurated in Jordan in the year 1994 assuming, as many other centres, the duties and premises of the old local Hispanic Cultural Centres, who developed, as well, its' cultural movement and teaching of the Spanish language in this country since 1955.