Sorry it's been a while, BUT this was one of my favorites :) Right under us is the Casa De Conchas which translates to the House of Shells. It was build by the king? (or someone important, I forgot) for his wife and every shell is a token of his love for her. There is a second part of the story and some people think it ruins it BUT message me or comment and I'll tell you the last tiny bit :) I was SO excited for this. It is now used as a library.

 This is up close to the shells, they were pretty cool.

 There were TONS of shells. :)

 

Across the street from the Biblioteca (aka library), was the school I went to. This was one of the entrances. It seems that every important building had a red door.

 This was our tour in the Casa De Conchas.

 This was in the University Pontificia de Salamanca. This was my class. :)

 A well in the library. (sorry the pictures jump around. I put them in order then the blog switched them up:)

 Casa de Conchas

 

This was also in the Casa de Conchas. There were seashells everywhere, not just on the outside.

 

This is in the University. Not everybody gets to go in this special room, but this was where they brought us on the first day AND where we got our certificates for graduating. It was really pretty.

In the University walking to class :)

The big towering building was my school and you can see the Casa De Conchas on the right.

This was cool. In the university, a LONG time ago, when you got a doctrine (In whatever field), you could write your on VICTOR. Victor is Latin? for Victory and you would write it on the wall in an artsy way. But first you had to hold a big huge banquet for all the professors and give them all gifts, buy food for your neighbors, throw a party for the entire town and basically buy tickets for everyone in Salamanca tickets to a bull fight. When the fight was over, you would take just a little bit of the bulls blood, mix it with oil and that's what you would write your VICTOR with.

 

Today if you get your doctrine, you buy a gift for some professors, maybe throw a little party (its all optional now) and you write VICTOR along with your name and the year your got your Doctrine with red paint on the walls of the University. There are 100's of VICTORS if not more, plus the bulls blood fades so there could be a lot more that have faded away.

 

Random Pictures :)

 

Ooh. Do you see that HUGE nest up on the tower?
I saw big nest like that everywhere in Spain and could not figure out what type of bird would need a nest that big. When I came home, I did some research and found out it was a White Stork. It was super cool, I love birds :)

The University.

 

This was in the University. There were lots of cool stairs. :) We actually got in trouble for going up the stairs. :)

I love how much detail they put into everything. This is on the underside of the stairs.

 

Mas de el Casa De Conchas. More of the Casa de Conchas. (Sorry, sometimes I will be writing, home or school and then I'll look back and half of it is in Spanish :)

The door of the library.

 

This is the School from a higher perspective.

Okay, in Spain, my friend kissed every statue she came across and I took pictures of her kissing every one and I had to post at least one and this was my favorites.  :)

 

This quail is in front of the university and it has a cool quote on it about education. It's super tall.

This is the Casa De Conchas above the door.

This was in the Library, these Dog/Lion statues lined the stairs.

Hope you liked this, when summer comes, I'll be updating a lot more regularly. SMILE :)