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Salamanca Sightseeing with local guide including visit of the Cathedral and University.
Avila sightseeing with TM
· Call or text local guide at least the day before to confirm time and place for meeting.
· Tour of Salamanca lasts approx. 2.5 hrs.
· Local guide pays university entrances – give the guide a signed voucher.
· Please make sure everyone in your group has their whisper sets before heading out on sightseeing ( and that you have the microphone/s for the local guide)
· Your bus driver will have to load the bus before the tour starts so make sure that your group have packed everything.
· The Salamanca tour is done on foot.
Salamanca – visit
Your guide will pick you up and drop you off at the hotel unless you and the driver have made other arrangements.
Avila – visit
On arrival at Avila follow signs for Cuatro Postes. From here there is the best view of the walls. There is a café with restrooms across the street.
From here, drive to the tourist office on the main road around the city You can ask for maps to distribute to your group if you like. There is an escalator inside the office that takes you up to the city. When you get out at the top cross the roundabout and enter the gate here to the old town. Lead your group inside the walls and almost immediately take the left-hand street – Calle Tostado which leads to the cathedral.
Give the group time for lunch. There are places to eat in the Plaza de la Victoria. Then regroup and give them time to visit the Cathedral and then walk together to the convent of Santa Teresa. It is built on the site of the house in which she was born. The stained-glass windows in the church depict the story of Santa Teresa. To the right of the entrance to the church there is a small souvenir shop and a tiny museum containing a finger of Santa Teresa!
If the group is interested they can also walk a section of the wall in their free time, ask at the ticket office.
