The city, located north-west of Madrid in the province of Castilla and Leon in Spain, is famous for one of the oldest and most prestigious universities in the world, hosting 50.000 students a year. More than 30.000 foreigners come to Salamanca every year to improve their Spanish language skills. This makes Salamanca a very cosmopolitan place, where you can make new friends who come from all over the world. The University of Salamanca has strong influence on the atmosphere of the city and brings a boost to life.

With only 180.000 inhabitants Salamanca astonishes with richness of cultural and social events. This makes it a very special and unusual mixture of bright lights of a big modern city and laziness of a small town. Salamanca is also called ‘The Golden Town’ because of the sandstones which are used as building material and create a golden glow when the sun lights up the city.

A great advantage of Salamanca is the spoken language in this area. This is the purest Spanish without any regional accents or dialects. This lets you improve your Spanish language skills also outside the classroom of your Spanish language school.