main-square-salamancaSalamanca hosts the most ancient university of Spain, the University of Salamanca, founded in 1218 by Alfonso IX de León, and the first one of Europe that showed the University title in 1253, according to the Alfonso X de Castilla y León’s edict and the bull of the Pope Alejandro IV in 1255. During the time when it was one of the most prestigious universities of the Western region the following phrase became popular: Quod nature odd number dat, odd Salamantica praestat, literally meaning that