School trips to Salamanca

Why visit Salamanca?

‘Pure’ Spanish

Salamanca is part of an area of Castile where Spanish is spoken without a pronounced regional accent, meaning that it’s often much easier for learners to understand. This, combined with the city’s reputation for educational excellence has made Salamanca a real favourite for Spanish language learners.

Salamanca is home to many independent Spanish language schools – in fact, about 16% of Spain’s Spanish language teaching market is based in Salamanca. With so much competition, the quality of the teaching is very high.

On one of our Language Study Tours to Salamanca, your students will be taught in closed groups by highly qualified, native Spanish-speaking teachers. The lesson content will be tailored to meet your specific learning objectives and requirements.

And, to complete the total immersion experience, we can arrange for your students to stay with carefully selected host families, who will encourage them to practise speaking Spanish with them on an everyday basis.

A historic and youthful city

The golden sandstone city of Salamanca is truly beautiful, and a visit here will make you feel like you’ve stepped back in time to Renaissance Spain.

Salamanca certainly boasts plenty of history to explore and the historic centre is a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Of course, the city is most famous for its university, which was founded in 1218 by King Alfonso IX and is the oldest university in the Hispanic world, as well as the third oldest in Western Europe.

But that doesn’t mean that the atmosphere is stuffy – in fact, Salamanca is a lively university city! This means that Salamanca has a really youthful, vibrant atmosphere, which always goes down really well with our school groups.

Rich culture

All its history means Salamanca has plenty of culture to discover, which is great news for school groups.

Particularly famous are the city’s Holy Week celebrations. Semana Santa is an important cultural festival across all of Spain, with many cities hosting parades of floats topped with religious figures, often depicting the Passion of Christ. But Salamanaca, with its spectacular sandstone architecture, provides a wonderful setting for these spectacles.

Many of the parades are accompanied by music and are flanked by hooded penitents called nazarenos. And if you attend the Los Oficios service, you’ll get to see all the university professors in their academic robes, before enjoying a free breakfast of hot chocolate and delicious cakes!

Book with Halsbury

Take a look at our range of Salamanca school trips below, and then get in touch with one of our tour advisers to discuss your requirements.