Self-guided Sightseeing Tour #2 in Salamanca, Spain

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Number of sights 29 sights
Distance 5.3 km
Ascend 148 m
Descend 126 m

Experience Salamanca in Spain in a whole new way with our self-guided sightseeing tour. This site not only offers you practical information and insider tips, but also a rich variety of activities and sights you shouldn't miss. Whether you love art and culture, want to explore historical sites or simply want to experience the vibrant atmosphere of a lively city - you'll find everything you need for your personal adventure here.

Activities in SalamancaIndividual Sights in Salamanca

Sight 1: Iglesia de San Julián y Santa Basilisa

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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 BOE of August 15, 1983.

Wikipedia: Iglesia de San Julián y Santa Basilisa (Salamanca) (ES)

243 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 2: Zara

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The Convent of San Antonio el Real de los Franciscanos is located within the urban area of Salamanca (Spain).

Wikipedia: Restos del convento de San Antonio el Real (Salamanca) (ES), Website

184 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 3: Salamanca

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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.

Wikipedia: Salamanca (EN)

21 meters / 0 minutes

Sight 4: Plaza Mayor

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The Plaza Mayor is a large plaza located in the center of Salamanca, Spain 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.

Wikipedia: Plaza Mayor, Salamanca (EN)

82 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 5: Iglesia de San Martín

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The church of San Martín is a Spanish Romanesque church located in the Plaza del Corrillo and next to the southern bay of the Plaza Mayor in Salamanca. The church was built on a hermitage dedicated to San Pedro in the twelfth century, specifically in the year 1103 on the initiative of Count Martín Fernández, in the neighborhood of Los Toresanos, during the repopulation of the city led by Raymond of Burgundy by order of King Alfonso VI of León. At that time, in 1173, it was called the church of San Martín del Mercado or San Martín de la Plaza. The church is currently embedded between modern buildings, it has undergone numerous restorations throughout its history. It was declared a National Historic-Artistic Monument in 1931.

Wikipedia: Iglesia de San Martín de Tours (Salamanca) (ES)

320 meters / 4 minutes

Sight 6: Torre del Clavero

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Torre del Clavero

The Torre del Clavero is one of the most typical and well-known monuments of the city of Salamanca, in Spain. It was declared a national monument on June 3, 1931.

Wikipedia: Torre del Clavero (ES)

82 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 7: Estatua de Cristóbal Colón

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The Monument to Columbus is an instance of public art in Salamanca, Spain. The monument, dedicated to Christopher Columbus, is erected on the centre of the namesake plaza.

Wikipedia: Monument to Columbus (Salamanca) (EN)

100 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 8: Palacio de Orellana

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The Palace of Orellana, located on Calle San Pablo, on the corner of Calle de Jesús in Salamanca (Spain), also known as the Palace of the Marquis of the Conquest or the Marquis of Albaida, is an interesting example of classicist architecture, with Mannerist influences. It was built by Canon Francisco Pereira de Anaya, in 1576. The Cantabrian master Juan Ribero de Rada also participated in its construction.

Wikipedia: Palacio de Orellana (ES)

283 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 9: Iglesia de San Sebastián

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The church of San Sebastián is a temple located in Salamanca, in the Plaza de Anaya, adjacent to the Colegio Mayor de San Bartolomé. On October 6, 2011, the complex of the Anaya School, Hostelry and Church of San Sebastián was declared an Asset of Cultural Interest with the category of Monument.

Wikipedia: Iglesia de San Sebastián (Salamanca) (ES)

178 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 10: La Clerecía

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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.

Wikipedia: La Clerecía, Salamanca (EN)

170 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 11: Iglesia de San Benito

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The church of San Benito is a Gothic-style Catholic temple located in the city of Salamanca, Spain.

Wikipedia: Iglesia de San Benito (Salamanca) (ES)

28 meters / 0 minutes

Sight 12: Casa de Francisco de Solís

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Casa de Francisco de Solís Iniziar / CC BY-SA 3.0

The Casa de Francisco de Solís is a fifteenth-century house-palace in the city of Salamanca.

Wikipedia: Casa de Francisco de Solís (ES)

29 meters / 0 minutes

Sight 13: Casa de Don Diego Maldonado

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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 is the work of Juan de Álava for Diego Maldonado Rivas, waiter of Alonso de Fonseca y Ulloa, in 1531.

Wikipedia: Casa de Don Diego Maldonado (ES)

42 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 14: Convento de la Madre de Dios

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Convento de la Madre de Dios

The Convent of the Mother of God is a Franciscan convent of the Third Order in Salamanca.

Wikipedia: Convento de la Madre de Dios (Salamanca) (ES)

166 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 15: Palacio de Monterrey

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The Palace of Monterrey is a building in the Spanish city of Salamanca, one of the greatest exponents of the Plateresque artistic style. Built by the III Count of Monterrey, it is currently owned by the House of Alba, which is the owner of that county. It was a building much admired and imitated in the nineteenth century, giving rise to the so-called Monterrey or neo-plateresque style, a historicism that took up the aesthetics of the plateresque.

Wikipedia: Palacio de Monterrey (ES)

61 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 16: Iglesia de La Purísima

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The convent of the Augustinian Sisters and the church of the Immaculate Conception form a cloistered convent complex located in the historic center 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)

197 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 17: Capilla de la Vera Cruz

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Capilla de la Vera Cruz

The Church of the Vera Cruz, located in the city of Salamanca, is a Baroque temple that is the seat of the Illustrious Brotherhood of the Holy Cross of the Redeemer and the Immaculate Conception, its Mother. the oldest of the penitential brotherhoods in the city. It is referred to indistinctly as Church, Hermitage and more commonly, Chapel.

Wikipedia: Iglesia de la Vera Cruz (Salamanca) (ES)

131 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 18: Casa del Regidor Ovalle Prieto

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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 there and died. It should not be confused with the Unamuno House-Museum that is on Calle Libreros.

Wikipedia: Casa del Regidor Ovalle Prieto (ES)

14 meters / 0 minutes

Sight 19: Casa de las Muertes

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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 at the beginning of the nineteenth century, gave it as a popular name: "House of Deaths".

Wikipedia: Casa de las Muertes (ES)

215 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 20: Casa de Doña María La Brava

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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).

Wikipedia: Casa de doña María la Brava (ES)

192 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 21: Iglesia de San Juan Bautista de Barbalos

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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 invocation of Saint John the Baptist and to the town of Barbalos, where the order had extensive possessions.

Wikipedia: Iglesia de San Juan de Barbalos (Salamanca) (ES)

88 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 22: Casa de Santa Teresa

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Casa de Santa Teresa

The house-convent of Santa Teresa is a house where Santa Teresa de Jesús lived in Salamanca. The house was owned by Commander Juan Antonio Ovalle Prieto and is close to the Church of San Juan de Barbalos. Its construction dates back to the end of the fifteenth century. Santa Teresa will live in the city, right in this house, for a period of almost four years.

Wikipedia: Casa-Convento de Santa Teresa (ES)

122 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 23: Convento de Santa Isabel

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The convent of Santa Isabel, also known as "las Isabeles", is a female convent in Salamanca.

Wikipedia: Convento de las Isabeles (Salamanca) (ES)

184 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 24: Parroquia de San Boal

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Parroquia de San Boal

The church of San Boal is a baroque temple located in Salamanca.

Wikipedia: Iglesia de San Boal (Salamanca) (ES)

225 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 25: Iglesia de San Juan de Sahagún

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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 Calle Toro. The church of San Juan de Sahagún, by the architect Joaquín de Vargas, was built in 1896, in a style reminiscent of the Romanesque of the old cathedral inside, and, more specifically, the Torre del Gallo, on its exterior façade. Bishop Cámara ordered it to be built.

Wikipedia: Iglesia de San Juan de Sahagún (Salamanca) (ES)

474 meters / 6 minutes

Sight 26: Parque de la Alamedilla

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712 meters / 9 minutes

Sight 27: Iglesia de San Marcos

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Iglesia de San Marcos Jose Luis Filpo Cabana / CC BY 3.0

The church of San Marcos in Salamanca (Spain), is a Romanesque style building that is located in the area of the old city wall at the Puerta de Zamora. It was built at the end of the eleventh century or the beginning of the twelfth century and was intended to be a parish. It is unique for its round floor plan and for its small size. The building was the headquarters of the Royal Clergy of San Marcos.

Wikipedia: Iglesia de San Marcos (Salamanca) (ES)

436 meters / 5 minutes

Sight 28: Iglesia de Santa María del Monte Carmelo

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Iglesia de Santa María del Monte Carmelo

The church of Santa María del Monte Carmelo is a small Baroque church in Salamanca, a remnant of the disappeared convent of Discalced Carmelites of San José, founded by Santa Teresa de Jesús in 1570.

Wikipedia: Iglesia de Santa María del Monte Carmelo (Salamanca) (ES)

359 meters / 4 minutes

Sight 29: Casa-Museo de Zacarías González

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The Zacarías González House Museum is a museum in Salamanca located in the house where the Spanish painter Zacarías González lived and painted.

Wikipedia: Casa Museo de Zacarías González (ES)

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