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The city of Salamanca, mostly famous for its university foundation by the Alfonso IX in 1200, located at the north west of Madrid and east of Portugal. The city’s preserved, turreted places, faded convents, Romanesque churches, and colleges has attracted scholar from all over the Europe. The city is large enough (180.000 inhabitants) to be able to offer the advantages of a real city, but at the same time it keeps the intimacy of a village. In Salamanca, the inhabitants speak the "purest" Spanish in Spain - Castilian. For this reason Salamanca is enormously popular with people all over the world who want to learn Spanish. In its day, Salamanca was ranked with Oxford, Paris, and Bologna as one of "the four leading lights of the medieval world." Its intellectual life continues to this day, and a large invasion of American students adds to it in summer. The city's population has swelled to 180,000, but a provincial aura lingers.

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