Spain's Golden University City: Plaza Mayor Baroque, Twin Cathedrals & Hidden Stone Frog
📍 Salamanca, Spain📅 3-day itinerary
A city of golden sandstone where the 1218 university — older than all English universities except Oxford and Cambridge — still teaches in buildings where Christopher Columbus presented his plan for the Indies, the most beautiful Baroque civic square in Spain serves as the collective living room, and finding a hidden stone frog in the cathedral facade is said to guarantee exam success.
The Baroque Square So Perfectly Proportioned That Locals Sit in It from 8am to Midnight & A Facade Embedded with 300 Stone Scallop Shells by a Knight of the Camino de Santiago Order
The Twin Baroque Towers Climbed to See Salamanca's Cathedral Roofscape & A Jamón Curing Town at 1,000 Metres Where Mountain Air Creates the Finest Iberian Ham in Castile
Spain's First National Heritage Village with a Free-Roaming Pig Owned by the Entire Community & A Village Where Every Building Facade Displays a Portrait of a Living Resident