House of the Shells in Salamanca
You may not have visited yet Salamanca, but surely you know that it is a historical city with such cultural wealth that it has been declared World Heritage by Unesco.
Apart from visits to its main monuments, like the University or its cathedral, until December 16 You have the opportunity to discover the hidden corners of your heritage thanks to the theatrical visits The keys of the city 2012.
This special guided tours program It is usually carried out during the last quarter of the year, and allows you to visit heritage spaces that are not usually open to the public.
So, for example, you can visit the University Historical Library, a corner where 2,800 manuscripts, 480 incunabula and about 62,000 volumes printed between the sixteenth and eighteenth centuries are stored. This visit takes place every Tuesday and Wednesday, until December 12. It lasts 45 minutes and a limit of 20 people.
Salamanca Main Square
At Convent of San Esteban, a guide characterized as Christopher Columbus will show you the cloister of this historic building where the discoverer stayed during his visit to Salamanca to convince the geographers of the University of the possibility of arriving in the Indies sailing to the West. The visit takes place every Saturday, until December 15, in two 45-minute passes.
With The keys of the city, you can also access the Sacristy of the New Cathedral, where the treasure is preserved. The visit takes place every Tuesday until December 11.
Visit of a different nature is that of the so-called Old House, 17th century building that houses the Castilla y León film library. Here you can see a collection of cinematographic devices owned, among others, by the Salamanca filmmaker Basilio Martín Patino.
Or the Workshop of old cars of the Museum of Automotive History, which you can visit every Tuesday until December 11. Or the Historical Memory Documentation Center, where the most important documentary fund of our country is kept, from the Civil War to the 1978 Constitution.
For sign up for the theatrical guided tours of Salamanca, you must go to the Municipal Tourist Office ([email protected], Tel. 923 21 83 42)
