Plaza Mayor - Ayuntamiento

Plaza Mayor. In the center is the Ayuntamiento, the city hall. Designed by Andrés García Quiñones. "The Calle de Zamora ends at the large, rectangular Plaza Mayor, the finest square of the kind in Spain. It is surrounded by lofty four-storied buildings, dating from the 18th cent, with colonnades on the ground floor, greatly frequented as promenades, especially in the evening. On the N. side rises the Casa del Ayuntamiento, by Churriguera".--Baedeker 1913. Old City of Salamanca UNESCO World Heritage site. DSC_0180p1

Salamanca

October 17th 2022
An all-day coach trip to Salamanca was the agenda for today. From Barca d'Alba we crossed the Águeda river, a Douro tributary, to enter Spain. The mountains of Portugal extended briefly into Spain, but shortly thereafter we were crossing the high plateau of central Spain, known as the Meseta, This region is part of Castille and Léon. The landscape and vegetation here, like the plateau in La Manc ... read more

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Spain's powerful world empire of the 16th and 17th centuries ultimately yielded command of the seas to England. Subsequent failure to embrace the mercantile and industrial revolutions caused the country to fall behind Britain, France, and Germany in ... ... read more

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