Salamanca News & Information

HOMEBUYERS from abroad tend to head for coastal areas, large towns and cities, and tourism hotspots, depending upon their criteria - work, retirement, holidays, or eventually all three at different points in time.

THE BORDER between Spain and Portugal will open from Saturday, and from Monday, bars and shops in the Comunidad Valenciana will be permitted to stay open until the 22.00 curfew.

PRIVATE plain-clothes detectives have been taken on to patrol the streets of a Salamanca-province village in a desperate bid to get dog-owners to clear up their pets' excrement.

The Association for the Recovery of Historical Memory (ARMH) has discovered the remains of four men allegedly shot by Franco's forces during the Civil War between August 12th and 13th 1936 in Boadilla (Salamanca).

A DAM in the province of Salamanca which has already been on an Oscar-winning production is about to 'travel' to Hollywood again – this time, in a scene in Arnold Schwarznegger's Terminator 6.

A BAR in central Salamanca has been forced to take down a notice which warns customers that if children throw tantrums or cause a nuisance, they will be asked to leave the premises.

AN ART exhibition has been banned by Salamanca city council for featuring politicians and Royals with excrement on their heads.

Two condoms found inside a 16th century medical manual have gone on display at Salamanca University's General History Library.

It has been revealed that Silvia Clemente, the Culture Councillor of the Castilla and Leon Council is intending to present a court case against the government.

It has been one of the most tragic weekends of the year so far on Spanish roads. Between 3pm on Friday and midnight last night, 41 people were killed in 26 fatal accidents, the third highest weekend death toll of the...