Salamanca's Museum Of Art Nouveau And Art Deco, 2017

We were there in 2013, but had to go back, especially to see it all lit up at night. The collection and policies are pretty much unchanged--NO FOTOS!--but I snagged a few anyway. The collection of jewelry, paintings, furniture, ceramics, glass, dolls, and much more, is impressive. But it is the stained glass in the architecture that you can't take your eyes off.

In the gift shoppe

Built onto the city wall

Salamanca Scenes And Incidents, 2

More of beautiful Salamanca...

Monastery church

And in English too

Torres de los Anaya, old, Medieval

Wall tower

The grill on this beautiful old building attracted us

Beautiful courtyard; turned out to be the provincial
archives!

Back to the Plaza Mayor for an early dinner

Under the watchful eye of Generalissimo Franco

Vicki had the churros and chocolate, while I had this healthy
dish

At the Cafe Novelty, hang-out of the philosopher
Miguel Unamuno when he was rector of the
university

Nice place

Every now and then the elephant lets off a little steam; too
many fartons?

Entrance to the university; see the 2013 post for explanation

Vicki studying some of the lettering in a courtyard

Peering into a quadrangle

Did I mention liking Salamanca's graphics?

Now night is falling and we are there to look up at the art
nouveau museum, a beautiful box of light

Still following the troubadors

And seeing the great Plaza at night

Salamanca Scenes And Incidents, 1

We visited Salamanca in 2013, and, despite missing the cathedral(s) due to a holiday closing, as well seeing the whole place lit up at night, we designated it at once as one of our favorite cities in Spain. And we resolved to come back. Strangely, the weather was cold for April 29th, nearly as cold as in January, 2010, when we bypassed Salamanca entirely. But it was sunny and dry and almost pleasant enough to eat outside.

We camped at the Hotel Regio, a nice new hotel with a large,
well-appointed campground

Our day and night were spent walking around, visiting the
Plaza, the cathedral(s), the art nouveau museum, the Plaza,
the university, the art nouveau museum, and then the Plaza
again; here some Modernista in Salamanca

Ditto

In the Plaza, said to be Spain's best--best I've seen, too--an
elephant sculpture has crash-landed

Tiled balcony undersides

Not sure what is going on here

Moorish ground floor, Stars of David above...?

Penitent figures from Holy Week as well as St. Theresa, et al.

Flying buttresses

Always follow the wandering minstrels, troubadors...

This time to a rather largish wedding

At the cathedral

One of the things we love is Salamanca's traditional graphics

Today's wedding

Dress

No sooner do we round the corner than we are passed by a guy
chasing a motorcycle cop

Today's 10k

Among many beautiful parks

The Casa Conchas under renovation

City wall remnant

Poet's Corner, as it were; monument to Spain's poets in a park

It was cold enough to be thinking along these lines