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Salamanca
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Its history
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Urban development
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Entering the city, the portals of access
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Itineraries through the city
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Museums and collections
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Corners of the city
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Much more
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Information of interest
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SALAMANCA
Like all significantly historical cities that remain alive today and in continual growth,
Salamanca has been referred to in many ways. It has been called a city of philosophy,
a city of gatherings, of knowledge, of truth, of beauty; a city that is golden and blue,
always open and ready to welcome newcomers.
Salamanca is a beautiful city with a significant and well preserved historical and monumental
legacy that stands out brightly, especially during the magical hours of dawn and dusk
when the reflection of the sun makes the Villamayor stone look like gold. The university
is one of the oldest in Europe and a reference for Latin America, making Salamanca a city
of wisdom and a seat of knowledge and understanding. A long list of real and fictitious
individuals walked the streets of the city, dreamt about it, brought life to it, and reside
in it still today: Unamuno, Lope de Vega, Fray Luis, Francisco de Vitoria, the Celestina,
Columbus, Torrente Ballester, Martin Gaite, Villena, Torres Villarroel, Ignatius of Loyola
or Saint Teresa of Jesus. But, above all, it is a living city full of stories to share, inmersed
in the continual activity of building and rebuilding itself anew, and because its streets
are always full of people at every hour of the day and night.
Its History
Entering the trail of time
Each city builds its own sense of time. Each city is a daughter of it. Almost three millennia of
existence are enough time to collect all type of events, large and small, happy and dramatic,
splendid or critical. The Celts, Hannibal and the Romans, the resettlement of the city charged
to Raimundo de Borgona by King Alfonso VI after the conquest of Toledo from the Muslims,
the wars between families of the city, the wars for power between the noblemen in the 14th
and 15th centuries, the splendor of the 16th century when Salamanca was the centre of
knowledge and of the world, the crisis of the Baroque period, the Spanish War of Independence
or the isolationism of the 19th century and a good part of the 20th. All these events helped
mold the city physically and spiritually, and determined its structure, identity and culture. To
these significant historical landmarks we must add two recent ones: Salamanca’s designation
as World Heritage City in 1988 and as European Capital of Culture in 2002. The 15th Iberian-
American Summit of Heads of State and of Government in 2005 was the lastest event that again
projected the city on the world stage.
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