Explore Salamanca

The Convento de San Esteban is the Dominican friary of Salamanca, rebuilt from 1524 to plans by Juan de Álava and finished in 1610. Its church front is carved like a stone altarpiece in the Plateresque style. Visitors see the church with José Benito de Churriguera's Baroque high altar, the Cloister of the Kings, the chapter houses and a museum.

The New Cathedral of Salamanca was built between 1513 and 1733 next to the older Romanesque cathedral, which was kept, and mixes late Gothic, Plateresque and Baroque work. Juan Gil de Hontañón and his son Rodrigo led the early building; the bell tower is 92 metres tall, and one route covers both cathedrals and the cloister.

The Old Cathedral of Salamanca is a Romanesque and early Gothic cathedral begun in the first half of the 12th century under Bishop Jerome of Périgord and finished in the 14th. Its scaled dome over the crossing is called the Torre del Gallo, and the apse holds a 15th-century altarpiece of 53 panels by Dello Delli and his brothers below a fresco of the Last Judgement.