Central Spain
Castile & León
Salamanca

Salamanca

Salamanca is a city in in western central Spain, with a population of 143,500 in 2021. It has a magnificent old town centre, with multiple Romanesque, Gothic, Moorish, Renaissance and Baroque buildings inscribed on the UNESCO world heritage list.
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  • Type: City with 144,000 residents
  • Description: city in Castile and León, Spain
  • Also known as: “Salamanca, Spain”
  • Postal codes: 37001-37009, 37071, 37080, and 37900

Places of Interest

Highlights include New Cathedral of Salamanca and Plaza Mayor.

Church
Photo: Julián Rejas De Castro, CC BY-SA 2.0.
The Catedral de la Asunción de la Virgen, popularly known as New Cathedral is, together with the Old Cathedral, one of the two cathedrals of Salamanca, , .

Square
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The is a large plaza located in the center of Salamanca, used as a public square. It was built in the traditional Spanish baroque style and is a popular gathering area.

Church
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The Cathedral of Santa María, known as the Old Cathedral, is one of the two cathedrals in Salamanca, , . Founded by Bishop Jerome of Périgord, its construction began in the first third of the 12th century and was finished at the end of the 14th century, in Romanesque and Gothic style.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Santa Marta de Tormes and Carbajosa de la Sagrada.

Town
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is a municipality in the province of Salamanca, western Spain, part of the autonomous community of , on the outskirts of the capital Salamanca, located only 3 kilometers away.

Village
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is a municipality in the province of Salamanca, western , part of the autonomous community of Castile-Leon. It is located only 4 kilometres from the city of Salamanca and as of 2016 has a population of 6,790 people.

Salamanca

Latitude
40.9652° or 40° 57′ 55″ north
Longitude
-5.664° or 5° 39′ 51″ west
Population
144,000
Elevation
815 metres (2,674 feet)
IATA airport code
SLM
United Nations Location Code
ES SLM
Open location code
8CGPX88P+39
Open­Street­Map ID
node 240423010
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
3111108
Wiki­data ID
Q15695
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Salamanca” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Salamanca”
  • Arabic: “سالامانكا”
  • Arabic: “سلامنكا”
  • Arabic: “سلمنقة”
  • Arabic: “شلمنقة”
  • Aragonese: “Salamanca”
  • Armenian: “Սալամանկա”
  • Asturian: “Salamanca”
  • Azerbaijani: “Salamanka”
  • Basque: “Salamanca”
  • Basque: “Salamanka”
  • Belarusian: “Саламанка”
  • Belarusian: “Саляманка”
  • Bengali: “সালামাঙ্কা”
  • Breton: “Salamanca”
  • Bulgarian: “Саламанка”
  • Catalan: “Salamanca”
  • Cebuano: “Salamanca”
  • Central Bikol: “Salamanca”
  • Central Kurdish: “سالامانکا، ئیسپانیا”
  • Chechen: “Саламанка”
  • Chinese: “Salamanca”
  • Chinese: “萨拉曼卡”
  • Chinese: “薩拉曼卡/萨拉曼卡”
  • Chinese: “薩拉曼卡”
  • Cornish: “Salamanca”
  • Croatian: “Salamanca”
  • Czech: “Salamanca”
  • Danish: “Salamanca”
  • Dutch: “Salamanca (stad)”
  • Dutch: “Salamanca”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “سالامانكا”
  • Esperanto: “Salamanko”
  • Estonian: “Salamanca”
  • Extremaduran: “Salamanca”
  • Finnish: “Salamanca”
  • French: “Salamanque”
  • Galician: “Salamanca”
  • Georgian: “სალამანკა”
  • German: “Salamanca”
  • German: “Salamantica”
  • German: “Salmantica”
  • Greek: “Σαλαμάνκα”
  • Gujarati: “સાલામેન્કા”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Salamanca”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Sat-là-màn-khà”
  • Hawaiian: “Salamanca”
  • Hebrew: “סלמנקה”
  • Hindi: “सलमंक”
  • Hindi: “सालामानका”
  • Hungarian: “Salamanca”
  • Icelandic: “Salamanca”
  • Ido: “Salamanca”
  • Inari Sami: “Salamanca”
  • Indonesian: “Salamanca”
  • Irish: “Salamanca”
  • Italian: “Salamanca”
  • Japanese: “サラマンカ”
  • Kannada: “ಸಲಮಂಕ”
  • Kannada: “ಸಲಾಮಾಂಕಾ”
  • Kazakh: “Саламанка”
  • Korean: “살라망카”
  • Ladin: “Salamanca”
  • Ladino: “Salamanka”
  • Latin: “Salmantica”
  • Latvian: “Salamanka”
  • Lithuanian: “Salamanka”
  • Lombard: “Salamanca”
  • Luxembourgish: “Salamanca”
  • Macedonian: “Саламанка”
  • Malagasy: “Salamanca”
  • Malay: “Salamanca”
  • Maltese: “Salamanca”
  • Marathi: “सालामांका, स्पेन”
  • Marathi: “सालामांका”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Salamanca”
  • Mirandese: “Salamanca”
  • Mongolian: “Саламанка”
  • Nauru: “Salamanca”
  • Nepali: “सालामान्का”
  • Northern Frisian: “Salamanca”
  • Northern Sami: “Salamanca”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Salamanca”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Salamanca”
  • Norwegian: “Salamanca”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Salamanca”
  • Ossetian: “Саламанкæ”
  • Panjabi: “ਸਾਲਾਮਾਨਕਾ”
  • Persian: “سالامانکا”
  • Piemontese: “Salamanca”
  • Polish: “Salamanca”
  • Polish: “Salamanka”
  • Portuguese: “Salamanca”
  • Quechua: “Salamanca”
  • Romanian: “Salamanca”
  • Russian: “Саламанка”
  • Samogitian: “Salamanka”
  • Sanskrit: “सालामान्का”
  • Scots: “Salamanca”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Salamanca”
  • Serbian: “Саламанка”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Helmantica”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Salamanca”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Salmantica”
  • Sicilian: “Salamanca”
  • Sinhala: “සැලමන්කා”
  • Skolt Sami: “Salamanca”
  • Slovak: “Salamanca”
  • Slovenian: “Salamanca”
  • South Azerbaijani: “سالامانکا”
  • Spanish: “Salamanca”
  • Swahili: “Salamanca”
  • Swedish: “Salamanca”
  • Swiss German: “Salamanca”
  • Tagalog: “Salamanca”
  • Tamil: “சலமன்கா”
  • Tatar: “Саламанка”
  • Telugu: “సాలమెంక”
  • Thai: “ซาลามังกา”
  • Tosk Albanian: “Salamanca”
  • Turkish: “Salamanca”
  • Twi: “Salamanca”
  • Ukrainian: “Саламанка”
  • Urdu: “سالامانکا، سپین”
  • Urdu: “سالامانکا”
  • Uzbek: “Salamanka”
  • Venetian: “Salamanca”
  • Vietnamese: “Salamanca”
  • Volapük: “Salamanca”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Salamanca”
  • Welsh: “Salamanca”
  • Western Armenian: “Սալամանքա”
  • Western Frisian: “Salamanca”
  • Western Panjabi: “سلمانکا”
  • Wu Chinese: “萨拉曼卡”
  • Yue Chinese: “薩拉曼卡”
  • “Salamanca”
  • “Salamanka”

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