Old Cathedral (Catedral Vieja) Salamanca

Plaza Juan XXII, Salamanca , Castile-León, Spain and Canary Islands - Phone: 923-21-74-76
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    Culture Vultures - They're storks actually!

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    ... are a number of attractions that have free admission on certain days. Today it is the Torre de Gallo, a  tower attached to the old Cathedral. As we walk towards the tower the souvenir shops are full of frogs. ¿Dónde está la rana? What's this all ...

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    On to Salamanca

    ... 3 bells lined up on top. On the way to Calle San Pablo the Keymaster Tower is a masterpiece of medieval architectures. The old cathedral right next to the Faculty of Translation is impressive and gigantic. It has hundreds of notched figures on the ...

  • 3

    Salamanca today

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    ... oldest in the world. Everywhere are university buildings. There are also numerous churches. The 'Cathedral Nueva' has the old cathedral adjoining. Sometimes we wonder why they had to be so big. There are other notable buildings. The Casa de las Conchas ...

  • 4

    Back to Life and Excursion to Salamanca

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    ... cobblestone roads to the cathedrals.  Salamanca has an "old" and “new” cathedral.  The old cathedral was built in the 7th century and was designed by an Italian, Nicolas Florentino.  It has a tower like the cathedral in Sevilla ...

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    Salamanca - still beautiful in the rain

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    ... beautifully painted and although we thought we were churched out we did enjoy having a look about. The cathedral is actually made up of the old cathedral and the new cathedral and we found that you do have to pay to go into the old one which we skipped, ...

  • 6

    A weekend with Wake...

    Katherine and I decided that since Wake Forest has a program in Salamanca, Spain (about 2.5 hours northwest of Madrid) we should probably go visit sometime this semester but we should wait until we were really homesick to do so...so we went this ...

  • 7

    Bilbao

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    ... , they used to send all the prostitutes across the bridge and then let them out again after easter. We walked up to the old cathedral (500 years ago they built the 'new' addition), then we walked further north past some crazy bachelors and into the ...