{"id":1828,"date":"2020-08-25T08:50:51","date_gmt":"2020-08-25T06:50:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ieronimus.es\/plaza-de-anaya-north-balcony\/"},"modified":"2020-08-25T08:50:57","modified_gmt":"2020-08-25T06:50:57","slug":"plaza-de-anaya-north-balcony","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ieronimus.es\/en\/plaza-de-anaya-north-balcony\/","title":{"rendered":"Plaza de Anaya north balcony"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"image-map-pro-9405\"><\/div>\n<p><strong>This is the best vantage point of the city.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n\n<p>On the upper platform of the New Cathedral, it allows the visitor to walk among flying buttresses, pinnacles, and gargoyles. From it the east-north-west face of the city can be seen, including the Plaza Anaya, La Clerec\u00eda, the University cloister, and the Convento de San Esteban. This new viewpoint of the city shows us not only its major monuments but also its urban layout.<\/p>\n\n<p>This balcony gives us a unique view of historical Salamanca. From the balcony of the Flat-topped Tower the southern part of the city can be contemplated looking towards the river and the plain, and from the north balcony the universal monumental Salamanca of the students that is silhouetted on the horizon like a \u201cthicket of towers\u201d. From this urban vantage point many historical buildings can be seen: the hill known as the C<strong>erro de San Vicente where the city originated<\/strong>; the historical building of the <strong>university,<\/strong> with its steeple culminating the chapel; the <strong>Colegio del Arzobispo Fonseca which is one of the four<\/strong> colleges of old Salamanca; La C<strong>lerec\u00eda<\/strong> and the <strong>Universidad Pontificia,<\/strong> an imposing architectural ensemble sponsored by Philip III and Queen Margaret of Austria in 1611; the <strong>\u00a0R\u00faa Mayor<\/strong>, a true artery of the city; the <strong>Casa de las Conchas<\/strong>, built in around 1493 under the patronage of Rodrigo Arias Maldonado; the Church of<strong> San Mart\u00edn at the end of the <\/strong>R\u00faa Mayor, the first Romanesque church in Salamanca; the <strong>Plaza Mayor<\/strong> with the fa\u00e7ade of the Town Hall in the background; the <strong>Plaza de Anaya,<\/strong> designed during the French occupation in 1811 by General Thi\u00e9bault; in the Plaza de Anaya stand the Church of<strong> San Sebasti\u00e1n<\/strong> and the <strong>Palacio de Anaya<\/strong> itself, the former College of San Bartolom\u00e9, which once welcomed illustrious personages who studied at the lecture halls of Salamanca; and finally in a glance towards the east the <strong>Convento de las Due\u00f1as<\/strong> (<em>Reverendas Madres Dominicanas<\/em>) and the <strong>Monastery of San Esteban<\/strong> (<em>Reverendos Padres Dominicanos<\/em>).<\/p>\n\n<p>After this great architectural complex, we still have to look back to discover a new vision of the cathedral ensemble with its imposing <strong>Belfry Tower<\/strong> piercing the skies of Salamanca, the dome of the <strong>New Cathedral,<\/strong> pinnacles, flying buttresses, and cresting, and in the background just before descending the spiral stairway, the magnificent <strong>Torre del Gallo.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is the best vantage point of the city.\u00a0 On the upper platform of the New Cathedral, it allows the visitor to walk among flying buttresses, pinnacles, and gargoyles. From it the east-north-west face of the city can be seen, including the Plaza Anaya, La Clerec\u00eda, the University cloister, and the Convento de San Esteban&#8230;.<\/p>\n<div class=\" [&hellip;]\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ieronimus.es\/en\/plaza-de-anaya-north-balcony\/\">Read More <i class=\"os-icon os-icon-angle-right\"><\/i><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":488,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[45],"class_list":["post-1828","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-route","tag-path","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ieronimus.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1828","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ieronimus.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ieronimus.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ieronimus.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ieronimus.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1828"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ieronimus.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1828\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1829,"href":"https:\/\/ieronimus.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1828\/revisions\/1829"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ieronimus.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/488"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ieronimus.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ieronimus.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ieronimus.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}