2024

CATHEDRALS

Monuments to visit
4.6/5
17 reviews
The Vieja Cathedral and the Nueva Cathedral with different architectural ... Read more
 Salamanca
2024

CONVENT AND CHURCH OF SAN ESTEBAN

Religious buildings
4.6/5
7 reviews

The church holds both the cathedral, by its colossal appearance, and the university, with its sculpted facade carved in the way of a altarpiece. The effect is confirmed by penetrating under the nave, as much as the baroque altarpiece De. Built in the th century by the powerful Dominican order, the convent guesclin Christopher Columbus on the eve of his ocean voyage. The building is now occupied by the Faculty of Law Theology.

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 Salamanca
2024

SALAMANCA UNIVERSITY

Schools colleges and universities to visit
4/5
9 reviews
University founded in 1220, featuring Vs with bull's blood honoring named ... Read more
 Salamanca
2024

MUSEUM OF ART NOUVEAU AND ART DECO CASA LIS

Museums
4.5/5
4 reviews

In a beautiful art nouveau art palace from the beginning of the th century built at the initiative of Miguel de lis by architect Joaquín de Vargas. Once inside, admire the beautiful glass roof. The museum presents a collection of objects from that time. A small corner of Paris 1900 in the middle of Castile.

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 Salamanca
2024

OFFICE DU TOURISME

Tourist office
4.5/5
2 reviews

Very efficient reception, complete list of hotels, maps, brochures on monuments, all with a smile.

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 Salamanca
2024

CLERECÍA - UNIVERSIDAD PONTIFICIA

Schools colleges and universities to visit
4/5
3 reviews
Jesuit College housing the Pontifical University, marked by its baroque ... Read more
 Salamanca
2024

LA CASA DE LAS CONCHAS

Palaces to visit
3.6/5
5 reviews
House with a facade decorated with scallops hiding an ounce of gold ... Read more
 Salamanca
2024

CONVENT OF LAS DUEÑAS

Abbey monastery and convent
3.7/5
3 reviews
Convent surrounded by Renaissance mansions with a Renaissance cloister and ... Read more
 Salamanca
2024

MONTERREY PALACE

Monuments to visit
3/5
1 review
Palace with plateresque decoration with reliefs of cherubs and fantastic ... Read more
 Salamanca
2024

SIEGA VERDE ROCK STATION

Archaeological site
Archaeological site with engravings on the rock forming an important set of ... Read more
 Ciudad Rodrigo
2024

THE DUCAL PALACE

Palaces to visit

Built in the th century on order of the counts of Zuñigas, its imposing silhouette flanked by two towers dominates part of the city. You can access it from Calle de Francia after climbing the stairs that end the street. From the original building, high on a former medieval castle, only the façade of the th and the central façade remain. It is on this latter that you can read the dedication made by Cervantes to the Duke of Béjar in El Quijote. The interior patio is also Renaissance. Since this building is now home to a high school, you can only visit the patio, but we also have access to the north tower which houses the oscura oscura which allows you to observe the entire city, its surroundings and the mountain.

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 Bejar
2024

HISTORICAL GARDEN EL BOSQUE

Parks and gardens

This Italian Renaissance style complex is one of the oldest in Spain. Built in 1567, at the request of Duke Francisco de Zúñiga y Combarro, he was destined to be a summer residence, which he will be until now a public property. It consists of a small palace with the ornate windows of the Armoiries y Combarro arms, a chapel and stables, the other party being devoted to the gardens in which everything is ordered to promote beautiful views and beautiful surprises: a large pond decorated with a small Moorish style temple (installed in 1871, replacing the original), gardens on the terrace with water games, recoins with angelots and a large chestnut forest.

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 Bejar
2024

CONVENT OF THE DISCALCED CARMELITE NUNS

Abbey monastery and convent

More than for its architecture, this th century convent convent deserves a visit for its rich collection of Italian art. Works by Luca Giordano, Andrea Vaccaro and Guido Reni, great Italian painters of the th Century, are exhibited in the church.

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 Peñaranda De Bracamonte
2024

LA PLAZA DE TOROS

Works of art to see

It is considered to be the oldest in Spain. Built in 1667, the first arena was wood, then stone and square shape during reconstruction in 1709. It is in 1711 that it will take a octagonal shape on the occasion of its official inauguration. Restored in 1962, it will again be inaugurated in 1996, after years of inactivity.

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 Bejar
2024

TEXTILE ROUTE

Visit industry

The city was the place of a long textile tradition that left an important industrial heritage that it will be possible to discover by following this road of textile factories, along Du's Cuerpo River, a situation that owes nothing at random since the water used to feed textile machines or hydroelectric turbines. To make better use of this energy, part of the current passed through the different pesqueras that allowed the water to be distributed in the canals. During this tour, you will be able to observe those of Los Caballos, Los Capitanes, Tapia or Los Ladrones, as well as the companies located on the banks, some of which were essential to the development of Béjar. Throughout this walk you will find informative signs. At the end or at the beginning of the journey, visit the Textile museum, located in an old factory.

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 Bejar
2024

THE MEDIEVAL WALL

Monuments to visit

The city possessed two successive walls, of medieval origin, the first of the th century and the second of the late th century, built at the request of Alfonso VIII to expand and strengthen the defences of the city, following the route of the first. But it is the first that Béjar retains important remains, especially in its western part, with the gates del Pico and San Pedro, the usual entrance in the city in the Middle Ages. It this is the first stretch of approximately 400 metres, between the two doors, which you can browse in full. You will find another trace of this wall behind the Ducal Palace, its original point. The second wall resisted until the end of the th century and was gradually destroyed to build houses or roads. There are still small remains in some houses or gardens, but it's mostly the pictures that make it possible to make an idea. In particular, you can see them at the Jewish Museum of the city, the David Melul Museum.

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 Bejar
2024

OFFICE DE TOURISME DE BEJAR

Tourist office

The Tourist Office is located near Plaza España, close to the bus station.

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 Bejar
2024

YECLA DE YELTES

Archaeological site

Start your visit by the Archaeology Museum (+34 923 500 702) which is located on the central square of the village. You will see, around a large model reproducing the site, all traces of the past of Yecla la Vieja, revealed by excavations: ceramics, funéraires, engravings. An expo on beliefs and daily life helps to illuminate the historical parts, you will then be more able to visit the archaeological site and find the few engravings that centuries have left there.

The Gisement Gisement deposit is located at the exit of Yecla de Yeltes (free access, parking at the entrance), in a territory of about five hectares. It is a pre-Roman settlement, occupied then under the Roman Empire and then the visigoth kingdom. It was completely abandoned in 1174. It is discovered through two interpretive paths. The shortest (850 metres) makes a quick turn through the interior while the longest (1 200 metres) makes the complete tour of the walls. In the centre, dominating the ancient ramparts, a hermitage was built at the entrance of what was the village and which remains a few foundations of walls. A village of Celtic huts was reconstituted away from the main street and hosts life scenes in the Bronze Age every year in April. About metres away, on the right, you can see at the western door a deer engraved on one of the blocks of stone supporting the outer wall. From there, a path leads to the cemetery where, in 2012, two tombs and skeletons were discovered, all in the same position. By returning to the village and pursuing the south-west door, you will have the opportunity to see further well-preserved engravings, especially one of the riders hunting a wild boar.

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 Yecla De Yeltes