Free Walking Sightseeing Tour #3 in Salamanca, Spain

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.

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The old church of Las Bernardas is a Roman Catholic church in Salamanca, in the Renaissance style designed by Rodrigo Gil de Hontañón.

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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.

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The church of San Cristóbal is a Romanesque temple in the Spanish city of Salamanca.

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Content in this edit is translated from the existing Spanish Wikipedia article at Iglesia de Sancti Spiritus (Salamanca); see its history for attribution.

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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 Official State Gazette of August 15, 1983.

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The Convent of San Antonio el Real de los Franciscanos is located in the town of Salamanca (Spain).

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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".

Wikipedia: Casa de las Muertes (ES)

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.

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

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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.

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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.

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The Church of the Venerable Third Order of Carmen, known as the Church of Carmen de Abajo, is the only remaining remains of the Convent of San Andrés de Salamanca.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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The Episcopal Palace of Salamanca was the residence of the bishops of Salamanca (Spain) until 1964, and currently houses the Diocesan Museum of Sacred Art of Salamanca.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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