page_title: Salamanca
section_title: Transport
hierarchical_section_title: Salamanca / Transport
caption_attribution_description: A little over a mile from tourist attractions in city center. I rode a Salamanca de Transportes 4 bus: salamancadetransportes.com/lineas ... into town in the morning, but decided to walk back in the afternoon for my return trip to Madrid. Salamanca is ten miles farther from Madrid than San Diego is from Los Angeles. For this route, Renfe offered rides on several slow trains, and a few fast ones. I chose the fast: about an hour and a half each way, past many acres of farmland. Doable as a day trip, although many tourists will bridle at the prospect of three hours total travel time to-and-from. See the logos on the station and the train? ADIF manages rail infrastructure; Renfe makes the trains go. Learn more at my blog post on Spain rail rides, shamelessly plugged once again at: transitophile.com/chango/rail-day-trips-from-madrid/
context_page_description: Salamanca is a city in western Spain that is the capital of the Province of Salamanca in the community of Castile and León. The city lies on several hills by the Tormes River. Its Old City was declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1988. As of 2018, the municipality has a population of 143,978.
  It is one of the most important university cities in Spain and supplies 16% of Spain's market for the teaching of the Spanish language. Salamanca attracts thousands of international students.
  The University of Salamanca, which was founded in 1218, is one of the oldest universities in Spain and the third oldest western university, but the first to be given its status by the Pope Alexander IV who gave universal validity to its degrees. With its 30,000 students, the university is, together with tourism, a primary source of income in Salamanca. It is on the Via de la Plata path of the Camino de Santiago.
caption: Since 2015 Salamanca is connected to Madrid via a high speed train. The journey takes just under 1 hour and 30 minutes.
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