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Abraham Zacuto (also spelled as Zacut or Zacutus) was a Sephardic Jewish astronomer, mathematician, rabbi, and historian. He was born around 1452 in Salamanca, Spain, and died around 1515 in Jerusalem. Zacuto made significant contributions to the fields of astronomy,...

One of the football clubs of Salamanca (Unionistas) has reached the 8th final in the Copa del Rey. The club is just 10 years old, plays in the 3rd division and is the pride of its members. This club also only wants members, not large investors who do not have the...

Salamanca is not only famous for being world heritage city, but in the last 10 years it is getting more and more famous for its graffitied. Let´s go and pay a visit. You have to go to the neighbourhood called Barrio Oeste. It is just outside the old part of Salamanca,...

This is the name Salamanca gets because of the stone used in almost all the monuments and houses in the center of Salamanca. It really gives the city it´s special glow. If you want to find out more about this beautiful sandstone in which Salamanca is build About where...

You may wonder why I put a video about Extremadura in my webpage about Salamanca and the Castilian Leon region. But the reason is simple, it is really a beautiful paradise for wildlife in Spain. Bird watchers paradise and track lovers. You can eat your heart out here,...

Sometimes this job gives you very nice surprises. Last week I had a tour with a Dutch group and with this group a camera team of the Dutch television. The program is called “We are almost there” The program is more about the people in the group. How they manage to...

First one of all, of course Holy week. After 2 years of not being able to celebrate holy week the way they used to, well it looked like the whole of Spain was eager to celebrate. Also here in Salamanca where Holy week has the title of “International interesting for...

Church of Saint Christopher Here I am again with the program of the Salamanca tourist information office “the keys from the city”. This time I went to visit the church of Saint Christopher, a beautiful Romanesque church. Sadly enough it is closed most of the time. ...

A little history. In the Sierra, before the expulsion, there were many Jews and Arabs in this area and later they became a large population of converted people. Trade was very traditional in many of these towns. This is why you can see a lot of oriental influence in...

This is a program which is always organized by the department of tourism of the townhall. This program is always during the months of November and December. A perfect excuse for the people of this beautiful town, to get to know its monuments and some curious stories...