Children Salamanca details
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- Salamanca
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- One day
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The city offers its younger visitors the chance to discover its sights and sounds thanks to this route designed especially for them. An educational tour enabling children to discover through play some of Salamanca’s most outstanding monuments and the fascinating facts they conceal.
A series of characters challenge the children to spot various decorative elements on the façades of the historical buildings featured on the tour. The figures include real and mythological animals on the Nativity and Palm façades of the New Cathedral and at the entrance to the courtyard of the Junior Colleges. Dragons, eagles, a lion and many more animals are all hidden around the city.
This route includes the following sites of interest: the Salamanca Architectural and Urban Heritage Visitor Centre, Monumenta Salmanticae, the Art Nouveau and Art Decó Museum, Lis House, the Automation History Museum, the collection of fascinating gadgets, the Salamanca Museum of Trade and Industry, the Roman Bridge, the Plaza Mayor and the Convent of San Esteban.
What to see?
Convent of San EstebanMore informationIt is a monastery of the Dominican order. Its construction was carried out between the XVI and XVII centuries. It is of Gothic style, but its decor is Plateresque and Baroque. The church has a Latin cross...
Roman Bridge of SalamancaMore informationIt is part of the Vía de la Plata, which linked Mérida with Astorga. Although its origin is Roman, from the 1st century AD, only the fifteen arches closest to the city date from this time, the other eleven...
Interpretation Center of the Architectural Heritage and Urban Salamanca: Monumenta SalmanticaeMore informationIt offers a tour of the architectural and urban heritage of the city in an innovative and unique space. The church of San Millan welcomes this new visit that relies on virtual recreations, computer graphics...
Major Square of SalamancaMore informationThe Plaza Mayor in Salamanca, from the 18th century, is one of the most beautiful urban monumental squares in Europe. Construction began in 1729 at the behest of the corregidor Rodrigo Caballero Llanes....
Museum of the Commerce and Industry of SalamancaMore informationThe visitor will know the most important industries in the province of Salamanca and the guilds and craftsmen who were settling in the city. In addition, it houses underground deposits until where the...
Museum of Automotive HistoryMore informationIts creation reflects the desire to preserve and show the public the Spanish car heritage. MHAS funds from the collection Gómez-Planche, consisting of more than one hundred cars collected over more than...
Museum Art Nouveau and Art Deco. House LisMore informationMore than 1600 pieces forming 19 collections, with works by Emile Gallé, René Lalique, the Daum brothers and Charles Schneider; bronze and ivory statues; pieces from the Escuela Francesa de Nancy; and...
Widgets to fascinateMore informationA collection of contraptions which present the evolution and history of audiovisual media. The collection includes 200 items which are distributed throughout eight themed sections and accompanied by pictures....