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Legends and Real Stories Self Guided Tour of Salamanca
Salamanca
Important Information
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Service animals allowed
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Public transportation options are available nearby
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Suitable for all physical fitness levels
Cancellation policy
For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.
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For a full refund, you must cancel at least 24 hours before the experience’s start time.
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Cut-off times are based on the experience’s local time.
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If you cancel less than 24 hours before the experience’s start time, the amount you paid will not be refunded.
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This experience requires a minimum number of travelers. If it’s canceled because the minimum isn’t met, you’ll be offered a different date/experience or a full refund.
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Any changes made less than 24 hours before the experience’s start time will not be accepted.
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A stone frog sits on a skull on the façade of one of Europe's oldest universities, and thousands of tourists squint at it every day convinced it will help them pass their exams. The tradition is completely made up. This self-guided audio walking tour of Salamanca tells you what actually happened, and the real stories are stranger.
Walk 20 stops through Spain's Golden City with a narrator who separates legend from history at every turn. You'll hear where Columbus was told his maths was wrong, stand where a philosopher faced down a general during the Civil War, and learn how lectures in these halls gave birth to modern international law.
Start whenever you like, pause for coffee or a hornazo...
Highlights
From 2 hours to 3 hours
Offered in German (Deutsch) & 8 Others
Free Cancellation
Mobile Ticket
From 2 hours to 3 hours
Offered in German (Deutsch) & 8 Others
Free Cancellation
Mobile Ticket
What's Included
100% Satisfaction Guarantee: If you don’t love the tour, write to us for a full refund.
1-year access to audio on iOS & Android. Listen to the tour anytime, as many times as you like
Audio and written guide included
Offline access to the tour (no internet connection needed) once tour is downloaded
Images to identify stops and in app interactive map for navigation
Any physical devices or headphones
Human tour guide at location
Meeting Points
Departure
Plaza Mayor
This is a self-guided audio tour on our self-guided tour app. To activate the tour, check your email for instructions from us sent right after booking. Can’t find it? Search for our company in your email inbox and spam folder. OR contact us via support.
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Legends and Real Stories Self Guided Tour of Salamanca
Salamanca
About
A stone frog sits on a skull on the façade of one of Europe's oldest universities, and thousands of tourists squint at it every day convinced it will help them pass their exams. The tradition is completely made up. This self-guided audio walking tour of Salamanca tells you what actually happened, and the real stories are stranger.
Walk 20 stops through Spain's Golden City with a narrator who separates legend from history at every turn. You'll hear where Columbus was told his maths was wrong, stand where a philosopher faced down a general during the Civil War, and learn how lectures in these halls gave birth to modern international law.
Start whenever you like, pause for coffee or a hornazo...
Highlights
From 2 hours to 3 hours
Offered in German (Deutsch) & 8 Others
Free Cancellation
Mobile Ticket
From 2 hours to 3 hours
Offered in German (Deutsch) & 8 Others
Free Cancellation
Mobile Ticket
What's Included
100% Satisfaction Guarantee: If you don’t love the tour, write to us for a full refund.
1-year access to audio on iOS & Android. Listen to the tour anytime, as many times as you like
Audio and written guide included
Offline access to the tour (no internet connection needed) once tour is downloaded
Images to identify stops and in app interactive map for navigation
Any physical devices or headphones
Human tour guide at location
Meeting Points
Departure
Plaza Mayor
This is a self-guided audio tour on our self-guided tour app. To activate the tour, check your email for instructions from us sent right after booking. Can’t find it? Search for our company in your email inbox and spam folder. OR contact us via support.
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Roman Bridge
Itinerary
1
Plaza Mayor
Stand beneath eighty-nine stone portraits and find the one that was chiselled off by angry students.
10 minutes
2
Casa de las Muertes
Find out the significance of the carved skulls and learn how a philosopher died steps away from this very façade.
3
Palacio de Monterrey
See the unfinished palace that became so influential aristocrats across Spain copied its style.
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Convento de la Purísima - Las Agustinas
Step inside a church built around a painting shipped across the Mediterranean from Naples.
5 minutes
5
Casa de las Conchas
Count three hundred carved shells and uncover the military ambition they were designed to advertise.
5 minutes
6
La Clerecía
Climb a tower called the Ladder to Heaven, built for Jesuits who were expelled from Spain in a single night.
7
Patio de Escuelas
Meet the poet who supposedly returned from five years in prison and resumed his lecture mid-sentence.
5 minutes
8
Pontifical University of Salamanca
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.
9
Calle Libreros
Walk the street where students once bought forbidden Enlightenment books smuggled from Flanders.
10 minutes
10
Salamanca Cathedral
View the door doctoral students prayed they would never have to use.
5 minutes
11
Paraninfo
Piece together what really happened when a philosopher confronted a general and an entire hall fell silent.
5 minutes
12
Palacio de Anaya
See the building where Franco's regime made its first radio broadcast using a Nazi transmitter.
13
Torre del Clavero
Look up at the tower that survived a royal demolition order because someone thought it too beautiful
14
Iglesia de San Pablo
Encounter the monks whose mission was to cross the sea and buy back kidnapped Christians.
5 minutes
15
St. Stephen's Convent (Convento de San Esteban)
Hear how Columbus arrived seeking funding and was turned down by men who were right.
16
Cueva de Salamanca
Descend into the cave where the Devil supposedly taught magic and kept one student as payment.
10 minutes
17
Huerto De Calixto & Melibea
Smell the plants described in a masterpiece of Spanish literature and decide if the lovers ever walked here.
10 minutes
18
Puente Romano de Salamanca
Cross stones laid two thousand years ago and find the headless Iron Age boar a politician once threw into the river.
