Today Edu, Cris and I drove to Salamanca. The city itself is not that nice except for the downtown area, which includes two beautiful cathedrals, several old buildings, and a typical Plaza Mayor. The weather was decent but cold (right around freezing), which gave us extra motivation to go in and out of shops and buildings. We also visited the tower of one of the cathedrals (the "new" cathedral, which was started in the mid 1500s).
One interesting tourist attraction is the facade of an old church that has many carvings, including a skull with a frog on it. For some reason the symbolism of the frog on the skull has acquired great significance, and all souvenir stores (of which there are tons) have a lot of items involving frogs. I will at some point try to load several pics on flickr and link them here, but for now I am including a couple here.
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