By air

Salamanca has no international airport, but they have a daily flights from Barcelona and Malaga with Lagun air and buses run frequently to Madrid with Auto-res , and trains link the town with Madrid and Portugal with Renfe. Ryan Air flies to Valladolid from Brussels, Milan and London's Stansted airport, and Salamanca can be reached from there via a 1.5 hour bus ride.

By Train

Take an afternoon Eurostar from London to Paris in just 2 hours 20 minutes, then the excellent Elipsos trainhotel from Paris to Madrid overnight, followed by a train to Salamanca. The trainhotel has cosy bedrooms, a restaurant and a cafe-bar.

By road

Salamanca has a bus service that brings neighborhoods to downtown. It has 13 lines a day and night. It was also created several years ago in collaboration with the Board the Metropolitan Public Transport Service with routes connecting the metropolitan area with the center of the city. This is a pioneering service in the autonomous region.He is currently studying the construction of a tram line.There is a bicycle rental service called Salenbici since late 2010.

Plaza Mayor in Salamanca, Casa Lis, Casa de las Conchas in Salamanca, Casa de Dona Maria la Brava, Don Diego Maldonado House, Palacio de Monterrey, Torre del Clavero

Plaza Mayor in Salamanca

The Plaza Mayor is an urban space built as square Castilian that over time has become the center of social life in the city of Salamanca , Spain . It was built in the period from since 1729 to 1756, in style baroque . The design is by architect Alberto Churriguera and then continued by others with little modification on the initial project. In the early nineteenth century urban underwent several renovations, until little by little in the mid XX was devoid of its gardens, central bandstand and public urinals to be clear. It was declared a BIC with the Monument category December 21, 1973 and published in the BOE on January 23, 1974.
Defined by Miguel de Unamuno , who was making his daily gatherings on the terrace at the Plaza is the Cafe Novelty.

Casa Lis

The Casa Lis is a modern palace of Salamanca built on the old canvas wall of the city, which houses the Museum of Art Nouveau and Art Deco .In the Universal Exhibition held around the year 1900 was set up a new way of understanding art and life, the movement was called "new art" with its national denominations. Thus, in Spain was named as Modernism , France Art Nouveau , Viennese Secession in Austria , Italy or Germany Jugendstil Liberty.

Casa de las Conchas in Salamanca

La Casa de las Conchas in Salamanca is a style building Gothic and elements platerescos . Its construction began in 1493 . In the interior courtyard with archways, stairs and coffered ceiling.The style gothic late combined with the new winds of plateresco Renaissance. Begins to build towards 1493 and its construction was completed in 1517 . By 1701 the house was repaired and enlarged, appeared the facade that faces the Rua. Jail was after study, ie, imprisonment of the University. In 1929 was declared National Monument. In 1967 it transferred to the City of Salamanca, by a lease for a token of a quarter year for ninety-nine years.

Casa de Dona Maria la Brava

Private home built around 1485, a large representative sample of the houses of the Spanish nobility in the second half of the fifteenth century. Located in the Plaza de los Bandos , in the city of SalamancaOn the site where he was the real home of Dona Maria Rodriguez de Monroy , built around 1485 other descendants, of which only the facade is slightly altered by a balcony decorated with heraldry and plant to be opened later. It has a large entrance gate dominated by an arch with large voussoirs of which skew the birth of a rectangular frame of broken lines surrounding the shield , the balcony and carved stone Toza is on the balcony. It is decorated throughout by ball ornament much used at the time of Isabella the Catholic . The stone is worked Toza trimmed Cardin naturalists.

Don Diego Maldonado House

La Casa de Don Diego Maldonado is a manor house located in Salamanca in front of the apse of the Church of San Benito .
It was designed by Juan de Alava to Diego Maldonado Rivas, waiter Alonso de Fonseca y Ulloa , in 1531.In its simple facade masonry bears special mention made ​​in stalls with window, now a balcony, above the door.The front suspension consists of three streets framed by pilasters decorated with Renaissance grotesques of " candelieri . " In the main street window appears in which lintel two cherubs holding a coat of arms of Maldonado. In the side streets new coat of arms Maldonado, Rivas and supported by putti Morille. The window would be closed at the back by a line of fascia decorated with cherubs that traverse the three streets. Because the light was subsequently extended, becoming balcony, we have received only the sections of the side streets.

Palacio de Monterrey

The Palace of Monterrey in Salamanca is one of the greatest exponents of the art style plateresco in Spain . Built by the Third Earl of Monterrey, now owned by the House of Alba , who is the holder of such county. It was a building much admired and imitated in the nineteenth century , giving rise to so-called Monterrey style , a historicism which drew on the aesthetics of Plateresco.
It was declared a National Monument, equivalent to the current term BIC category Monument to the May 6, 1929.

Torre del Clavero

La Torre del Clavero is one of the most typical and famous monuments of Salamanca .Rest of the manor house of the clove Order of AlcAntara . Meets the interests of military strength and beauty of construction of the fifteenth century. The tower is square with about 28 meters. At about 20 meters becomes octagonal tower, adorned on each side with a semi-cylindrical drum topped by a coat of arms. The Clavero tower is beautiful and graceful lines, with booths full of eighths, its irregular holes, its cornice of arches and cantilevers and shields of the Sotomayor and Anaya, raise the question of whether it was built by order of Don Francisco Sotomayor , Clavero of the Order of Alcantara, in 1470 , or Don Fray Diego de Anaya .

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