Legends and Real Stories Self Guided Tour of Salamanca

Stand beneath eighty-nine stone portraits and find the one that was chiselled off by angry students.

Find out the significance of the carved skulls and learn how a philosopher died steps away from this very façade.

See the unfinished palace that became so influential aristocrats across Spain copied its style.

Step inside a church built around a painting shipped across the Mediterranean from Naples.

Count three hundred carved shells and uncover the military ambition they were designed to advertise.

Climb a tower called the Ladder to Heaven, built for Jesuits who were expelled from Spain in a single night.

Meet the poet who supposedly returned from five years in prison and resumed his lecture mid-sentence.

Search for the stone frog everyone believes brings exam luck, then hear why the whole tradition is invented and see where a friar publicly told the Spanish Empire it had no right to conquer the Americas.

Walk the street where students once bought forbidden Enlightenment books smuggled from Flanders.

View the door doctoral students prayed they would never have to use.

Piece together what really happened when a philosopher confronted a general and an entire hall fell silent.

See the building where Franco's regime made its first radio broadcast using a Nazi transmitter.

Look up at the tower that survived a royal demolition order because someone thought it's too beautiful

Encounter the monks whose mission was to cross the sea and buy back kidnapped Christians.

Hear how Columbus arrived seeking funding and was turned down by men who were right.

Descend into the cave where the Devil supposedly taught magic and kept one student as payment.

Smell the plants described in a masterpiece of Spanish literature and decide if the lovers ever walked here.

Cross stones laid two thousand years ago and find the headless Iron Age boar a politician once threw into the river.