Salamanca, pt. II

Yesterday, we spent the day in Salamanca, which is a little college town in the community of Castile and León in northwestern Spain. It’s not a huge city, perhaps the size of Columbia, Missouri, but there seems to be quite a bit going on here. We visited the university, which is the oldest in Spain, as well as the two cathedrals. Apparently it’s been historical tradition for old cathedrals to be torn down in place of new ones, but for some reason which was probably explained to me in Spanish, the old cathedral was kept standing when the new one was built.

There is so much more that I could write, but I'm running on about four hours of sleep and am consequently a bit brain dead. It's completely worth it, but I'll be very glad to finally arrive in Córdoba and to establish a regular sleep schedule.

 

The old cathedral, founded in the 1100´s

The courtyard in the university, with the domes of the new cathedral
in the background

The Plaza Mayor