32 Sights in Salamanca, Spain (with Map and Images)
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Sightseeing Tours in SalamancaActivities in Salamanca1. Casa de las Muertes
The House of Deaths is a house designed by the architect Juan de Álava in the historic center of the city of Salamanca (Spain). The popular name of the house responds to a mixture of popular legend and history. The house has four skulls carved in stone that, like a corbel, seem to hang from the jambs of the two upper windows of the façade. This ornamental feature, together with a murder of four inhabitants that occurred at the beginning of the nineteenth century, gave it the popular name: "House of Deaths".
2. Cueva de Salamanca
The Cave of Salamanca is a legendary enclave in the city of Salamanca where, according to popular tradition, the Devil taught. This cave corresponds to what was the crypt of the now non-existent church of San Cebrián.
3. Puente Romano
The Roman bridge of Salamanca, also known as Puente Mayor del Tormes, is a Roman bridge crossing the Tormes River on the banks of the city of Salamanca, in Castile and León, Spain. The importance of the bridge as a symbol of the city can be seen in the first quartering of city's coat of arms. It has been known traditionally as puente mayor and as puente prinçipal which gives access to the southern part of the city. The bridge as it currently appears is a result of several restorations. One of the disasters that most affected it was the Flood of San Policarpo on the night of January 26, 1626. It was declared Artistic Historic Monument on June 3, 1931, and Bien de Interés Cultural in 1998. Until the beginning of 20th century it carried the main road into the city, and continued to bear heavy traffic until 1973. Since the construction of a third bridge for road traffic it remains exclusive for pedestrians.
4. Plaza Mayor
The Plaza Mayor in Salamanca, Spain is a large plaza located in the center of Salamanca, used as a public square. It was built in the traditional Spanish baroque style and is a popular gathering area. It is lined by restaurants, ice cream parlors, tourist shops, jewelry stores and a pharmacy along its perimeter except in front of the city hall. It is considered the heart of Salamanca and is widely regarded as one of the most beautiful plazas in Spain. It is connected to the shopping area Calle del Toro from the northeast, Calle de Zamora from the north, the restaurants on Calle de Concejo from the northwest, Calle del Prior and the small Calle de la Caja de Ahorros from the west as well as Plaza del Corrillo from the south.
5. Salamanca
Salamanca is a municipality and city in Spain, capital of the province of the same name, located in the autonomous community of Castile and León. It is located in the Campo Charro comarca, in the Meseta Norte, in the northwestern quadrant of the Iberian Peninsula. It has a population of 144,436 registered inhabitants. Its stable functional area reaches 203,999 citizens, which makes it the second most populated in the autonomous community, after Valladolid. Salamanca is known for its large number of remarkable Plateresque-style buildings.
6. Ruinas de la Iglesia de San Polo
The church of San Polo was a religious temple that is now in ruins. These ruins now make up a public square and are partially integrated into a hotel. They are located southwest of the city of Salamanca in the vicinity of the Tormes River. It was located outside the walls, in the so-called neighbourhood of the Portogaleses, in a position very close to the old Puerta de San Pablo, which has now disappeared. It was built in the twelfth century. A strong restoration of the church was carried out in the sixteenth century, which maintained worship inside until the nineteenth century. The temple was abandoned at the end of the 19th century, when it was in ruins. The cult moved to the Convent of San Esteban and later to the church of the Trinitarians, where it remains as the parish of San Pablo. At the beginning of the 21st century, they are considered historical ruins.
7. El Cielo de Salamanca
The Sky of Salamanca is a mural painting attributed to Fernando Gallego that corresponds to the third part of the decoration of the vault of the old Library of the Escuelas Mayores of the University of Salamanca. The original vault was painted in the 1480s and occupied the top of today's St. Jerome Chapel. In the mid-eighteenth century, the height of the nave destined for the chapel was increased, leaving the painting hidden in a chamber of about four meters between the roof of the building and the new vault of the chapel. In these works, the other two-thirds of the old vault in which the painting was located collapsed. In 1901 they were rediscovered by Professor García Boiza. In the 1950s the paintings were removed from the original vault, transferred to canvas and moved to their current location for viewing.
8. Iglesia de Santiago
The church of Santiago del Arrabal is a Roman Catholic church located on the banks of the River Tormes in the city of Salamanca, Spain. Its construction dates back to the twelfth century, making it one of the oldest in Salamanca. It is located in the vicinity of the Roman bridge of Salamanca and the stone boar. It is one of the churches close to the Ruta de la Plata before entering the city on the Jacobean pilgrimage. The interior was completely baroque in the eighteenth century due to the transformations and renovations that were made. The church was important in the celebrations of the feast of Santiago, in which the representatives of the city council came on horseback, preceded by a herald with a flag.
9. Casa-Museo de Miguel de Unamuno
The Unamuno House-Museum is a house located in the historic center of the city of Salamanca (Spain). It is a house belonging to the University built since the eighteenth century and dedicated to the Rectory House during his mandate. It is known for having been the place where Miguel de Unamuno lived when he was Rector of the University of Salamanca for the first time. Since the 1950s it has been a museum dedicated to the writer's life and stay in Salamanca (1900-1914). The Unamuno House Museum is part of the Archives and Libraries Service of the University of Salamanca.
10. Parque Huerto de Calixto y Melibea
The Huerto de Calixto y Melibea is a 2,500 square meter garden located in the old town of the city of Salamanca (Spain). It is so named because it is inspired by the famous garden of Fernando de Rojas' tragicomedy, the Tragicomedy of Calisto and Melibea. It is located on the slope of the old Salamanca wall at the foot of the River Tormes. It is currently a romantic park that can be visited because of the love story of the characters in love in Fernando de Rojas' work: Calixto and Melibea. It was inaugurated on June 12, 1981.
11. Catedral Nueva
The Catedral de la Asunción de la Virgen, popularly known as New Cathedral is, together with the Old Cathedral, one of the two cathedrals of Salamanca, Castile and León, Spain. It is the seat of the diocese of Salamanca. It was constructed between 1533 and 1733 mixing late Gothic, Plateresque and Baroque styles. It was commissioned by Ferdinand V of Castile. It is one of the largest cathedrals in Spain in size and its bell tower, at 92 meters high, is also one of the tallest.
12. La Clerecía
La Clerecía is the name given to the building of the former Real Colegio del Espíritu Santo of the Society of Jesus, built in Salamanca between the 17th and 18th centuries. It is of baroque style. It differs the college, with an interesting cloister, and the church, with an impressive facade of three bodies. The name of Clerecía is due to an abbreviated denomination of its belonging to the Real Clerecía de San Marcos after the expulsion of the Jesuits from Spain.
13. Iglesia de San Juan de Sahagún
The church of San Juan de Sahagún in Salamanca, in neo-Romanesque style, is dedicated to San Juan de Sahagún, patron saint of the city. Its main façade is located on Toro Street. The Church of San Juan de Sahagún, by the architect Joaquín de Vargas, was built in 1896, in a style reminiscent of the Romanesque style of the Old Cathedral on the inside, and, more specifically, the Torre del Gallo, on its exterior façade. It was built by Bishop Cámara.
14. Catedral Vieja
The Cathedral of Santa María, known as the Old Cathedral, is one of the two cathedrals in Salamanca, Castile and León, Spain. Founded by Bishop Jerome of Périgord, its construction began in the first third of the 12th century and was finished at the end of the 14th century, in Romanesque and Gothic style. It was finished thanks to the impulse given to the works by Bishop Alfonso Barasaque. It is dedicated to Saint Mary of the See.
15. Palacio de Monterrey
The Monterrey Palace is a building in the Spanish city of Salamanca, one of the top exhibitors of the plateresque artistic style. Built by the III Count of Monterrey, it is currently owned by the House of Alba, which is owned by the county. It was a very admired and imitated building in the 19th century, giving rise to the so-called Monterrey style or neoplateresco, a historic that resumed the aesthetics of the plateresco.
16. Domus Artium 2002 (DA2)
DA2 Domus Artium 2002 is a contemporary art centre located in the city of Salamanca (Spain) and inaugurated in April 2002 on the occasion of the European Capital of Culture. It is built on what was the old provincial prison, a building built in 1930 and renovated by the architect Horacio Fernández del Castillo as a museum space, preserving original elements such as the cell doors and the original iron grille.
17. Palacio de Orellana
The Palacio de Orellana, located on San Pablo street, corner to street of Jesús in Salamanca (Spain), also known as the Palace of the Marqués de la Conquest or the Marquis de Albaida, constitutes an interesting example of classicist architecture, with manierist influences. He was built by Canon Francisco Pereira de Anaya, in 1576. Cantabrian master Juan Ribero de Rada also participated in its construction.
18. Toro-verraco ibérico
The verraco of the bridge in Salamanca, Spain, is an Iron Age stone statue depicting a bull, placed at the entrance of the Roman bridge. Verraco is a general term that refers to the stone statues of animals made by the Vettones, one of the pre-Roman peoples of the Iberian Peninsula. In Spanish the word verraco means "breeding pig", but other animals such as bulls and bears were also represented.
19. Iglesia de San Marcos
The church of San Marcos in Salamanca, Spain, is a Romanesque style building located in the area of the old city wall at the Puerta de Zamora. It was built in the late 11th or early 12th century and was intended to be a parish church. It is unique for its round floor plan and its small size. The building was the headquarters of the Royal Clergy of San Marcos.
20. Casa de Santa Teresa
The house-convent of Santa Teresa is a house where Saint Teresa of Jesus lived in Salamanca. The house was owned by Commander Juan Antonio Ovalle Prieto and is located near the Church of San Juan de Barbalos. Its construction dates back to the end of the 15th century. Santa Teresa will live in the city, right in this house, for a period of almost four years.
21. Capilla de la Vera Cruz
The Church of the True Cross, located in the city of Salamanca, is a Baroque temple that is the headquarters of the Illustrious Confraternity of the Holy Cross of the Redeemer and of the Immaculate Conception, its Mother. the oldest of the city's penitential brotherhoods. It is referred to interchangeably as Church, Hermitage and more commonly, Chapel.
22. Iglesia de San Juan Bautista de Barbalos
The Church of San Juan Bautista de Barbalos in Salamanca, Spain, is a Romanesque church founded in 1150 by the Knights of the Order of the Hospital of San Juan de Jerusalem. It owes its name to the fact that it is dedicated to Saint John the Baptist and to the town of Barbalos, where the order had extensive possessions.
23. Iglesia de San Sebastián
The church of San Sebastián is a church located in Salamanca, in the Plaza de Anaya, adjacent to the Colegio Mayor de San Bartolomé. On October 6, 2011, the complex of the Colegio de Anaya, Hospedería y Iglesia de San Sebastián was declared an Asset of Cultural Interest with the category of Monument.
24. Casa del Regidor Ovalle Prieto
The Ovalle house is a Baroque style house in the historic center of the city of Salamanca (Spain). The house has three floors and a central coat of arms by Juan Antonio Ovalle Prieto. Miguel de Unamuno lived and died there. It should not be confused with Unamuno's House-Museum on Calle Libreros.
25. Museo de Art Déco y Art Nouveau Casa Lis
The Museum of Art Nouveau and Art Deco of Salamanca, in the Casa Lis, is a museum that houses a collection of furniture and objects representative of the decorative arts. It was inaugurated in the spring of 1995 with funds from the donation that collector Manuel Ramos Andrade made to the city.
26. Fachada de la Universidad de Salamanca
The façade of the University of Salamanca dates back to 1529 and belongs to the Plateresque style, which developed in the first 30 years of the 16th century. It is characterized by a meticulous and abundant decoration. For many, this façade is the masterpiece of the Spanish Plateresque.
27. Iglesia de San Julián y Santa Basilisa
The church of San Julián and Santa Basilisa is a church of Romanesque origin in Salamanca renovated in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, declared an Asset of Cultural Interest with the category of Monument by publication in the Official State Gazette of August 15, 1983.
Wikipedia: Iglesia de San Julián y Santa Basilisa (Salamanca) (ES)
28. Casa de Doña María La Brava
The house of Doña María la Brava is a private house built around 1485, a great representative example of the houses of the Spanish nobility of the second half of the fifteenth century. It is located in the Plaza de los Bandos, in the city of Salamanca (Spain).
29. Iglesia de Santo Tomás Cantuariense
The church of Santo Tomás Cantuariense is a Romanesque church of the 12th century located in the city of Salamanca, Spain. The famous Salamanca playwright Lucas Fernández was a priest of the church in the first half of the sixteenth century.
Wikipedia: Iglesia de Santo Tomás Cantuariense (Salamanca) (ES)
30. Casa de Don Diego Maldonado
The house of Don Diego Maldonado is a manor house that is located in Salamanca in front of the apse of the Church of San Benito. It was designed by Juan de Álava for Diego Maldonado Rivas, Alonso de Fonseca y Ulloa's waiter, in 1531.
31. Convento de Las Agustinas
The Augustinian Convent and the Church of the Immaculate Conception form a cloistered convent complex located in the historic centre of the city of Salamanca. It was declared a National Monument by Decree of April 15, 1935.
Wikipedia: Convento de las Agustinas e Iglesia de la Purísima (Salamanca) (ES)
32. Iglesia de Santa María del Monte Carmelo
The church of Santa María del Monte Carmelo is a small baroque church of Salamanca, the rest of the disappeared Convento of Carmelites Descalzas de San José, founded by Santa Teresa de Jesus in 1570.
Wikipedia: Iglesia de Santa María del Monte Carmelo (Salamanca) (ES)
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