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Square · Salamanca, Spain

Plaza Mayor

The best square in Spain, used as a living room, and gold at sunset because of the stone.

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Plaza Mayor is in Salamanca, and this is Salamanca — the atlas draws Europe in one projection whose finest unit is about four kilometres, so it maps the town rather than the street. The frame is about 730 km across and 260 km deep at this latitude. Coastline from Natural Earth, public domain. The full map →

Give it 30 minutes · Open year-round · 40.965°N, -5.664°E

Accessibility

Not documented. EuropeDoor holds no step-free access, hearing loop or accessible toilet information for any place, and inventing it would be worse than the gap — the position in full.

Getting there

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Up a level

Salamanca · Madrid & the Centre · Spain

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Other places in Salamanca

University facade

A plateresque wall of carving with a frog on a skull that students are required to find.

Monument

The record

What this atlas holds about Plaza Mayor, and nothing it does not.

Kind
Square
Give it
30 minutes
Season
Open year-round
Where
40.965°N, -5.664°E
In
Salamanca