Arenisca.
Last weekend was puente, and after desperately searching for cheap hostels for a week I booked things last minute and jet-setted (bus-ed) off to Salamanca!
Salamanca is home to the oldest university in Europe, a Jesuit founded university, 2 cathedrals next to each, a very impressive Plaza Mayor and a horde of international students and tourists. It was also delightfully hot and sunny! I went into both cathedrals (the vieja and the nueva), both universities (Universidad de Salamanca and Universidad Pontificia) and their respective towers, people watched and ate ice cream from Cafe Novelty (the oldest cafe in Salamanca) in the Plaza Mayor, visited the art museum and the impressive art deco museum and crossed the Roman bridge.
I also took morning jaunt to Ciudad Rodrigo, which also has an impressive cathedral, roman bridge (and is surrounded by 2km of defensive stone walling), a post office in an historical building and a chamber pot museum.
As per, pictures can better explain the lure of this city than my prose...
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| Cloister, Conventa de las Duenas |
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| Casa de las Conchas (covered in conchas, shells!) |
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| Puente Romano (and the cathedrals in the background) |
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| Plaza Mayor; around the edge of which there are circles with busts of kings, great thinkers and artists, and also Franco. |
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| Football match among the sandstone. |
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| Plaza Mayor by night! |
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| The fachada of the Universidad de Salamanca; there is a hidden frog somewhere and if you find it, it's good luck! |
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| The towers of the 2 cathedrals, from the Huerta de Calixto y Melibea (gardens) |
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| The Chamber Pot Museum in Ciudad Rodrigo... |
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