Salamanca - The City
Salamanca is well-known for having the oldest university in all Spain and one of the most prestigious in Europe. Its student and cosmopolitan atmosphere is ideal for the visitor, being the best place not only to learn the Spanish language, because the accent of the Spanish in Castile is the purest, but because Salamanca is a pioneer city in the education of Spanish like foreign language field. The innumerable schools of Spanish for foreigners in the city offer courses of Spanish, culture, gastronomy, tourism, History, Literature, art, etc.
On the other hand, the historical quarter of the city of Salamanca is a true street-museum. Historical streets and buildings around their gorgeous Plaza Mayor exhibit an impressive collection of Romanesque, Gothic, Plateresque and Baroque buildings where we can study history touching these golden stones: two universities, House of Shells, Clergy, convent of San Esteban, historical building of the University, whose facade, worked meticulously like a piece of silverwork, keeps a mystery that occupies to all people that it sees it for the first time, looking for its famous frog.
In addition, the salmantine province account with impressive natural places: Snow-covered peaks in the Mountain range of Béjar, deep valleys in Arribes del Duero, shady and mysterious seas of green and yellow cereal fields, forests, territories of clear horizons, complicated and lost valleys, small crystalline streams and majestic fluvial runnings..., all of these are images that travellers and visitors will be able to enjoy in their route to the salmantine lands.
