Salamanca is a municipality and city in Spain, capital of the province of the same name, located in the autonomous community of Castile and León. It is located in the Campo Charro comarca, in the Meseta Norte, in the northwestern quadrant of the Iberian Peninsula. It has a population of 144,436 registered inhabitants. Its stable functional area reaches 203,999 citizens, which makes it the second most populated in the autonomous community, after Valladolid. Salamanca is known for its large number of remarkable Plateresque-style buildings.
Image: Reflejos de la Catedrales de Salamanca
Image: Salamanca Universidad, Escuelas Mayores, fachada 14
Image: Salamanca Casa de las Conchas
Remains of a house at the Cerro de San Vicente Archaeological Park (c. 800–400 BC), a hamlet assigned to the Early Iron Age
Salamanca is a province of western Spain, in the western part of the autonomous community of Castile and León. It is bordered by the provinces of Zamora, Valladolid, Ávila, and Cáceres, and on the west by Portugal. It has an area of 12,349 km2 and in 2018 had a population of 331,473 people. It is divided into 362 municipalities, 11 comarcas, 32 mancomunidades and five judicial districts. Of the 362 municipalities, more than half are villages with fewer than 300 people.
From left to right and from top to bottom: Puente del Congosto Castle, Miranda del Castañar, Campo Charro meadow, keep of the castle of Enrique II of Ciudad Rodrigo, the arrivals of the Duero in Aldeadávila de la Ribera, the cathedrals of Salamanca, Montemayor del Río, the Candelario church and the Pozo de los Humos