Free Walking Sightseeing Tour #1 in Salamanca, Spain
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3 km
69 m
Explore Salamanca in Spain with this free self-guided walking tour. The map shows the route of the tour. Below is a list of attractions, including their details.
Activities in SalamancaIndividual Sights in SalamancaSight 1: Iglesia de San Cristóbal
The church of San Cristóbal is a Romanesque temple in the Spanish city of Salamanca.
Sight 2: Iglesia de Sancti Spiritus
Content in this edit is translated from the existing Spanish Wikipedia article at Iglesia de Sancti Spiritus (Salamanca); see its history for attribution.
Sight 3: 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)
Sight 4: 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.
Sight 5: 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.
Sight 6: Zara
The Convent of San Antonio el Real de los Franciscanos is located in the town of Salamanca (Spain).
Wikipedia: Restos del convento de San Antonio el Real (Salamanca) (ES), Website
Sight 7: 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.
Sight 8: 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.
Sight 9: Parroquia de San Boal
The church of San Boal is a Baroque temple located in Salamanca.
Sight 10: Convento de Santa Isabel
The Convent of Santa Isabel, also known as "las Isabeles", is a female convent in Salamanca.
Sight 11: 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.
Sight 12: 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).
Sight 13: 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".
Sight 14: 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.
Sight 15: Palacio de Monterrey
Book Ticket*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.
Sight 16: 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)
Sight 17: Iglesia de San Benito
The church of San Benito is a Gothic-style Catholic church located in the city of Salamanca, Spain.
Sight 18: Casa de Francisco de Solís
The Casa de Francisco de Solís is a 15th-century palace in the city of Salamanca.
Sight 19: 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.
Sight 20: Convento de la Madre de Dios
The Convent of the Mother of God is a women's convent of Franciscan nuns of the Third Order in Salamanca.
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