© Mark Wade
| Salamanca © Mark Wade |
Major medieval university city, 62 km from Zamora. Immense building works of the 16th Century and later erased much of the city of the Cid's time. The Old Cathedral was completed in the 12th Century, and the church of San Martin dates to the same period.
Latitude: 40.97. Longitude: -5.67.
To Don Alfonso he gave the kingdom of Leon, and in Asturias as far as the river Deva, which runs by Oviedo, and part of Campos as far as Carrion and the river Pisuerga, with the border, which contained the dioceses of Zamora, Salamanca, and Ciudad Rodrigo, and the city of Astorga, and other lands in Galicia, with the town of Zebreros.