Salamanca Cuisine:
Salamanca is a city with a long scientific tradition. This can be seen in its cuisine, which combines excellent local products to obtain wonderful recipes, in a spirit of efficiency and pragmatism similar to that of science.
Salamanca is a culture capital, the province of Salamanca is a gastronomical melting pot, serving many different kinds of meat, all of them excellent.
Morucho livestock is one of the native bovine breeds of Salamanca. It provides a delicious taste, as does the regionally famous suckling pig, suckling lamb 'cochifrito', lamb shoulder and other specialities. One of Salamanca's most distinctive products is the Guijuelo cured ham, of excellent quality. These include exceptional 'chorizos', cured loin of pork, spicy sausages and so on; all of them made with Iberian pork from acorn-fed pigs that are raised in the pasturelands of Salamanca. Their excellent meat makes any sausage, even the ones as simple as 'farinato', a delicious treat.
About the Area
The province of Salamanca can be toured by following interesting itineraries. One of these is the so-called Vía de la Plata ("Silver Route"), a Roman road that linked Seville and Astorga and was later used by the pilgrms en route to Santiago de Compostela. This itinerary through the province takes in Alba de Tormes, Guijuelo and Béjar. Romanesque-Mudejar churches, drying sheds for ham with Label Guarantee status and medieval constructions which all add to the area´s charm.
The Sierra de Francia range also comprises other unmissable sites, such as La Alberca, a village with National Historic Heritage status, and Miranda del Castañar, an Historic-Artistic Site, as well as natural beauty spots such as the Peña de Francia rock and the Las Batuecas valley.
The so-called Campo Charro leads on to Ciudad Rodrigo, one of the province's most historic places, and to the Sierra de Gata mountain range. Meanwhile, the river Tormes reveals the historic towns that have gradually emerged along its banks, such as Almenara de Tormes, Ledesma and San Felices de los Gallegos.
Attractions
Casa Museo Unamuno -Calle de Libreros. This 18th Century home beside the university is where the poet and philosopher Miguel de Unamuno lived from 1900 to 1914. Here he wrote many of the works that made him famous. You can see some of his notebooks and his library, along with many personal mementos.
Convento de San Esteban - Plaza del Concilio de Trento. St. Stephen's Convent is one of the most dramatic of all the old religious sites in Salamanca. The golden-brown Plateresque facade of this late Gothic church competes with the cathedral in magnificence.
Museo Art Nouveau-Art Deco - Calle Gibraltar 14. This museum contains more than 1,500 pieces, all part of the collection of the Manuel Ramos Andrade Foundation. The collection dates from the late 19th Century to the 1930s and includes bronze and marble figurines; jewellry; furniture; paintings and a collection of some 300 porcelain dolls.
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