Salamanca, Spain: A Warmth in Winter
Tormes River with the two cathedrals Few cities were as high on my northern Spain hitlist as Salamanca. Yes, there was León , with its wall-to-wall stained-glass cathedral and free tapas action, or Oviedo , Santiago’s cousin out east in Asturias, or even Albarracín , the most beautiful village in Spain. But Salamanca always kept tugging me down there, even after I nearly booked a marathon train journey down there from Galicia and chickened out. View of La Clerecía and the old town from the New Cathedral’s bell tower The perfect opportunity to swing by this monumental university town presented itself to me this January, when I was dropping off my family at the Madrid airport after having shown them all around the capital , Segovia , and Santiago for a week. On my way back northwest to Santiago, I took advantage of being so far south to make the trek out to Salamanca before riding the trenhotel home. A break from the Castilian cold Casa de las Conchas: The Shells Ho...