Salamanca (esp)

Salamanca

Salamanca ranks 710th in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Guildford, Muroran, and Orléans. Memorable people born in Salamanca include Vicente del Bosque, Alfonso XI of Castile, and Francisco Vázquez de Coronado. Memorable people who died in Salamanca include Miguel de Unamuno, John, Prince of Asturias, and Wendell Meredith Stanley. Salamanca has been the birth place of many soccer players, and politicians and the death place of many philosophers, and writers. Salamanca is located in Spain.

Salamanca is a municipality and city in Spain, capital of the province of the same name, located in the autonomous community of Castile and León. It is located in the Campo Charro comarca, in the Meseta Norte, in the northwestern quadrant of the Iberian Peninsula. It has a population of 144,436 registered inhabitants. Its stable functional area reaches 203,999 citizens, which makes it the second most populated in the autonomous community, after Valladolid. Salamanca is known for its large number of remarkable Plateresque-style buildings. Read more on Wikipedia