These photos were taken in Salamanca, a beautiful university city in central Spain (Castile and Leon). The town conserves many Renaissance monuments built with unique golden sandstone.


PLAZA MAYOR

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v66/hiram/salamanca/plaza/243578648.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v66/hiram/salamanca/plaza/16021702.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v66/hiram/salamanca/plaza/347637.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v66/hiram/salamanca/plazamayordetalleayunt.jpg

UNIVERSIDAD

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v66/hiram/salamanca/universidadfachada.jpg

UNIVERSIDAD PONTIFICIA

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v66/hiram/salamanca/pontificia_2.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v66/hiram/salamanca/pontificia2.jpg

CATEDRALES

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v66/hiram/salamanca/catedralespano.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v66/hiram/salamanca/riopuentenuevocatedral.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v66/hiram/salamanca/catedralviejacimborrio_2.jpg

CONVENTO DE SAN ESTEBAN

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v66/hiram/salamanca/iglesiasesteban00.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v66/hiram/salamanca/iglesiasestebanfachada.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v66/hiram/salamanca/iglesiasestebandetalleportada2.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v66/hiram/salamanca/iglesiasestebandetalleportada.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v66/hiram/salamanca/iglesiasestebanclaustro.jpg

CLERECIA

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v66/hiram/salamanca/clerciacasa.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v66/hiram/salamanca/calleserranosclerecia.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v66/hiram/salamanca/callerosarioperspclerecia2.jpg

CASA DE LAS CONCHAS

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v66/hiram/salamanca/casaconchas2.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v66/hiram/salamanca/casaconchasprimerplano.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v66/hiram/salamanca/casaconchasescudo.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v66/hiram/salamanca/casaconchasgargola.jpg

TORRE DEL CLAVERO

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v66/hiram/salamanca/torreclavero0.jpg

PUENTE ROMANO

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v66/hiram/salamanca/tormespuenteromano.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v66/hiram/salamanca/puenteromanodetalle.jpg

PALACIO DE MONTERREY

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v66/hiram/salamanca/palaciomonterreypurisima.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v66/hiram/salamanca/palaciomonterrey.jpg

PALACIO DE ANAYA

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v66/hiram/salamanca/anaya.jpg

PALACIO DE LA SALINA

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v66/hiram/salamanca/palaciolasalina6_2.jpg

CONVENTO DE LAS DUEÑAS

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v66/hiram/salamanca/conventodueas.jpg

IGLESIA ROMÁNICA: STO TOMÁS CANTURIENSE

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v66/hiram/salamanca/iglesiatomascanturiense.jpg

HUERTO DE CALIXTO Y MELIBEA

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v66/hiram/salamanca/huertocalixtomelibea03.jpg

- STREETS AND SQUARES –

Veracruz

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v66/hiram/salamanca/veracruz1.jpg

Sto. Domingo

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v66/hiram/salamanca/santodomingo.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v66/hiram/salamanca/iglesiaelcarmenabajo.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v66/hiram/salamanca/arroyostodomingo.jpg

Rua Mayor

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v66/hiram/salamanca/ruamayordsdanaya.jpg

Plaza de los bandos

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v66/hiram/salamanca/plazabandoscajaduero.jpg

Plaza de Anaya

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v66/hiram/salamanca/plazaanaya2.jpg

Compañía

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v66/hiram/salamanca/compaiadsdmonterrey.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v66/hiram/salamanca/compaia3.jpg

Balmes

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v66/hiram/salamanca/clereciacallebalmes2.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v66/hiram/salamanca/clereciacallebalmes.jpg

Zamora

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v66/hiram/salamanca/callezamoraplaza3.jpg

Bordadores

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v66/hiram/salamanca/callebordadoresycompaia.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v66/hiram/salamanca/callebordadoresmuertes.jpg

Libreros

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v66/hiram/salamanca/callelibreros.jpg

That's all. Hope you liked them. Greetings.

WOOOOOOOOW!! What a beautiful city!! I missed it til now on my trips to Spain - what a pity! :(

Thanks for these great pics. Isn't the university one of the oldest in the world after Bologna?

Hi Kuesel. Yeah, the University of Salamanca is one of the oldest in the entire world, founded by King Alfonso IX in 1243, shortly after the Universities of Bologna and Paris.

Really great photos. How big is the city and is it just for the students? I guess, they might be quite often disturbed by the tourists.

Salamanca have about 180,000 inhabitants, with 38,000 students living there (including foreign students of whom there are a considerable number, spanish courses industry is relevant in the town). It is a touristic city but not massively touristic. It is small in size and almost everything is reachable on foot.

The golden color of the buildings is awesome!I have to visit this city...
The dome of Clerecia is beautiful btw :)

Salamanca have the moust beatiful "plaza mayor" in Spain :okay:

just amazing

Great pics, Hiram. You´re an artist!

More pics

Catedral

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v488/Charroman/Catedraltorre.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v488/Charroman/DSC01544.jpg

Casa de las conchas

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v488/Charroman/Casadelascochas.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v488/Charroman/PatioCasadelasconchas.jpg

Casa Lis

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v488/Charroman/CasaLis.jpg

Universidad

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v488/Charroman/PatiodeEscuelas.jpg

Patio de escuelas

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v488/Charroman/Escuelasmenoresycatedral.jpg

Colegio de Fonseca

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v488/Charroman/DSC01515.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v488/Charroman/DSC01514.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v488/Charroman/DSC01506.jpg

San Marcos

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v488/Charroman/SanMarcos.jpg

Rua

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v488/Charroman/Ruamayorconcatedral.jpg

Calle Zamora

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v488/Charroman/CalleZamora3.jpg

Calle Toro

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v488/Charroman/CalledoctorLucenayplazaLiceo.jpg

I'm speechless

Plaza Mayor is simply astonishing!!!
(were can I find a bigger picture to use as a wallpaper?)

The University is also very nice, reminds of me some Indian Temples, with all
that curvings.

BRAVO Salamanca

Beautiful architecture, clean streets and picturesque views.But pictures give me a depressing feeling about the city, depressing or something I can't describe, something dark. I don't know!
Beautiful architecture again, thanx for posting them :okay:

It's maybe really one of the most beautiful cities I've ever seen - and I only know the city by name (first even from Asterix :)) and university. How comes that such a beautiful place has gotten so forgotten? I visited a lot of places in Spain like Granada, Barcelona, Zaragoza, Malaga, Ronda, Figueiras, Valencia... and know people who travelled around the country as well, but I NEVER before saw pics of this wonderful place! :(

Splendid images of a splendid town. If we consider that cities could compit whitout considering proportions/size/population/importance , Salamanca would perfectly be considered the most beautiful city in Spain, the most armonic and perfect group of buildings joined together in a short space. :)

Surprisingly, I think is not very well known outside Spain.

Hi Kuesel. Yeah, the University of Salamanca is one of the oldest in the entire world, founded by King Alfonso IX in 1243, shortly after the Universities of Bologna and Paris.


the university of salamanca was created in 1218 by alfonso IX

http://www.usal.es/web-usal/Universidad/Historia/Historia.shtml
sorry the page is in spanish so i'll tranlate the important part.

''in the year of 1218 the king alfonso IX of Leon creates the university of salamanca which is considered as the oldest one in spain''

Great pics and great city. I love Salamanca.

wwwoooooo!!!!!!, that's great site. Everybody would have to go at least four times each ten years. Magnificent. Highlysb rate 10/10

It's maybe really one of the most beautiful cities I've ever seen - and I only know the city by name (first even from Asterix :)) and university. How comes that such a beautiful place has gotten so forgotten? I visited a lot of places in Spain like Granada, Barcelona, Zaragoza, Malaga, Ronda, Figueiras, Valencia... and know people who travelled around the country as well, but I NEVER before saw pics of this wonderful place! :(
thats the best part of this site, we see places that we never now taht they exist Kuezel :okay:

One of the most beautiful towns in Spain!
:)
Salamanca: the Golden Town
;)

I'm speechless

(were can I find a bigger picture to use as a wallpaper?)




You can looking for here:

Salamanca 2005 (http://www.salamanca2005.org/)

the university of salamanca was created in 1218 by alfonso IX

http://www.usal.es/web-usal/Universidad/Historia/Historia.shtml
sorry the page is in spanish so i'll tranlate the important part.

''in the year of 1218 the king alfonso IX of Leon creates the university of salamanca which is considered as the oldest one in spain''

The first university in Spain was created in Palencia in 1208 by the king Alfonso VIII.


http://www.turwl.com/capital/historia/historia.htm
http://www.palencia-turismo.com/historia.htm
http://www.guiasnaranjas.com/es/index.php/re2/gpalencia/
http://www.minusval2000.com/version3/ocio/castillaLeon/palencia/

The links are in Spanish but all of them say the same.

The first university in Spain was created in Palencia in 1208 by the king Alfonso VIII.


http://www.turwl.com/capital/historia/historia.htm
http://www.palencia-turismo.com/historia.htm
http://www.guiasnaranjas.com/es/index.php/re2/gpalencia/
http://www.minusval2000.com/version3/ocio/castillaLeon/palencia/

The links are in Spanish but all of them say the same.

I can see no contradiction; no one claims that Salamanca was the first university founded in Spain but that it's the oldest one which is true since the original Palencia university founded in 1208 does no longer exist.

More pics (fews days ago)

Plaza Mayor


http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v488/Charroman/plaza3.jpg


http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v488/Charroman/plaza.jpg


http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v488/Charroman/plaza2.jpg



Clerecia


http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v488/Charroman/clere.jpg


http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v488/Charroman/clere2.jpg


Catedral


http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v488/Charroman/Catedralponti.jpg



http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v488/Charroman/pontitrasera.jpg


http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v488/Charroman/corrillo.jpg


http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v488/Charroman/biblio.jpg


http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v488/Charroman/uni.jpg


http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v488/Charroman/iglesia.jpg


http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v488/Charroman/torre.jpg

Delightful!!This coty is a jewel!

Cool, the most beautiful Citypic-Thread ever is still open!!

Photos from the video "Cities for the XXIst century"

CATHEDRALS AND DOMINICAN MONASTERY OF SAINT STEPHEN

http://img126.imageshack.us/img126/9387/catedralydominicos7lu.jpg

THREE DOMES: NEW CATHEDRAL, CLERGY (ROYAL COLLEGE OF THE HOLY SPIRIT) AND CHURCH OF THE IMMACULATE CONCEPTION

http://img344.imageshack.us/img344/6039/catedralclerecaypursima2tj.jpg

DOMINICAN MONASTERY, NEW CATHEDRAL AND CLERGY

http://img221.imageshack.us/img221/7747/dominicoscatedralypursima8zt.jpg

MAIN SQUARE, DOMINICAN MONASTERY, NEW CATHEDRAL, CLERGY AND CHURCH OF THE IMMACULATE CONCEPTION

http://img422.imageshack.us/img422/7314/plazamayorpursimaclerecadomini.jpg

TORMES RIVER, ENRIQUE ESTABAN BRIDGE AND CATHEDRALS

http://img403.imageshack.us/img403/1278/puenteenriqueesteban2ps.jpg

A wonderful city.

Beautiful Spanish city with loads of history and fantastic buildings. Very Castilian. God bless Spain.

WOW, one of the prettiest cities Ive ever seen. love that golden sandstone

^^ Very nice place. I'd like to visit or attend the University. My Spanish professor attended Salamanca University.

beautiful, being on the streets is like to move to the middle ages...this is the first time i feel so, although i've been to many old cities

Congrats to the photographers; amazing job, guys!!

I feel very honoured and proud since I was born in Salamanca.

If you liked the pics, you will love this award-winning video; Enjoy it (sorry for the quality)

http://www.salamancaconventionbureau.com/video.asp

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Aquí mataron a un hombre. Rueguen a Dios por él. Año de 1792
Plaza de los Sexmeros. Salamanca

Here a man was killed. Pray to God for him. Year of 1792
Sexmeros square. Salamanca

Qui fu ucciso un uomo. Preghiate il Signore per lui. Anno di 1792
Piazza di Sexmeros. Salamanca


http://farm1.static.flickr.com/81/282860543_e1b25e3a2d.jpg

Los que dan consejos ciertos a los vivos son los muertos
... en uno de los muros de la iglesia de San Julian, en la Plaza de Sexmeros

Who give true advices to the alive are the dead...
... in one of the old walls of San Julián's church, in Sexmeros square.

Quelli che danno consigli sicuri ai vivi sono i morti
... in uno dei muri della chiesa de San Julián, nella piazza di Sexmeros.


http://farm1.static.flickr.com/111/300984493_6133d3eb2f.jpg


http://farm1.static.flickr.com/68/193572153_45d93683a2.jpg

Beautiful thread :)

Great city! Nice pics :cheers:

Beautiful, stately university city with amazing churrigueresque style of architecture. The new movie Vantage Point features cool aerials and street/plaza scenes of Salamanca, but the movie itself is crap.

Great pics...:cheers:

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