Palacio de la Salina

Palace in Salamanca

Palacio De La Salina Courtyard 2
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The Palacio de la Salina de Salamanca is a building built in a Plateresque style with Italian elements, built in 1538 . It has an airy façade, a courtyard with arches, capitals and corbels of great interest. The architect was Rodrigo Gil de Hontañón .

The Palacio de la Salina de Salamanca is a building built in the Plateresque style with Italian elements, built in 1538 . It has an airy façade, a courtyard with arches, capitals and corbels of great interest. The architect was Rodrigo Gil de Hontañón .

It owes its name ( La Salina ) to having been the headquarters of the salt tobacconist (until 1870 ) and its layout, open to the street, shows that it is a building built from the beginning to be public and not intended for residence, so It can be said that said Juan Alonso de Fonseca, was the concessionaire of the salt monopoly in the city. And also that the legend that links the palace to Archbishop Fonseca is not true either.

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Visiting Palacio de la Salina

Address: Palacio de la Salina C. San Pablo, 18 37001 Salamanca Spain
Duration: 20 minutes

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