Private tours in Salamanca

Salamanca is built of Villamayor sandstone, which turns gold in late light and gave the city its nickname. It has the oldest university in the Spanish-speaking world, founded in 1218, and what is generally agreed to be the finest main square in Spain. Tour Travel & More organises 100% private tours of Salamanca with a licensed official tour guide, a luxury vehicle with chauffeur and a travel coordinator available 24/7.

The golden essentials on foot

The Plaza Mayor is baroque, perfectly enclosed and still the city's living room. From there it is a short walk to the university façade, where generations of students have hunted for the frog carved on a skull — find it unaided and you pass your exams, so the story goes — and to the Casa de las Conchas, covered in three hundred carved scallop shells.

Two cathedrals, and what hides in the stone

Salamanca has an old cathedral and a new one, joined together rather than replaced. On the new one's Puerta de Ramos a stonemason's 1992 restoration added an astronaut and a dragon eating an ice cream, which has confused a lot of visitors since. Inside, the Ieronimus tower route takes you along the galleries above the naves.

With Ávila, or from Madrid

Salamanca sits two and a half hours west of Madrid, and pairs naturally with Ávila on the way. With a private vehicle and chauffeur it works as a long day from the capital or as an unhurried overnight, which is what we would suggest if the evening light matters to you.

With Tour Travel & More, Salamanca is a city to linger in rather than pass through. Tell us your dates and a travel expert will build your private tour around what you want to see.