The city's Art Nouveau Art Deco Museum contains 1,500 exhibits spanning the late 19th century to the 1930s. They include bronze and marble figurines, jewelry, paintings, furniture and porcelain dolls.

If you're visiting at Easter you'll be able to see the famous "Lunes de Agua" festival which has taken place every year since medieval times. In the Middle Ages, the townspeople crossed the river in boats decorated with flowers to fetch back the prostitutes who had been banned from the city during Lent. Members of the oldest profession in the world don't get banished these days but this curious tradition is still religiously observed on Easter Monday.

Outside of Salamanca, you can travel to La Sierra de Francia.

At the mountain peak Peña de Francia of 1,723 meters tall, a very popular destination of excursions, you may enjoy of a great view. In the green and romantic valleys there are villages like Las Batuecas, located in a wild-life preserve where still lynxes and some rare mountain-goats exist. The Monastery of San José del Monte offers the opportunity for a peaceful and spiritual stay. By the way you can sleep there, not for a fixed price but for what you are willing or able to give.

Nearby you should visit La Alberca, one of the most beautiful villages in Spain and the first that was declared national Monument, in 1940. The population conserves interesting customs of pagan tradition.