Heritage towns in Salamanca
6 towns in this province.
A walled cathedral city near the Portuguese frontier, its ramparts, palaces and 14th-century castle keep recalling centuries as a contested border stronghold.
The first village in Spain ever granted heritage protection, a tangle of timber-and-stone houses in the Sierra de Francia, little changed in centuries.
A steep mountain village in the Sierra de Béjar, its sloping streets cut by stone water channels and lined with the tall, balconied houses of old pork curers.
A walled medieval village in Salamanca province whose complete circuit of 15th-century walls, four original gateways, and hilltop castle survive almost entirely intact.
A village of carved stone facades and timber-framed houses in the Sierra de Francia, where 388 painted portraits of former residents stare back at you from the walls of their old homes.
A castle with a cemetery inside its walls, a bullring that may be Spain's second oldest, and a parish church blending Gothic, Baroque, and Mudéjar styles — San Martín del Castañar punches well above its size in the Salamanca countryside.