This stunning and very grand cathedral is located in the centre of the beautiful and vibrant city of Salamanca. There is much to see here, so take your time. Admire the many paintings, sculptures, and fine architecture. It is probably a good idea to take a guided tour as there is much to learn.

My ticket was €10 and included both cathedrals (old and new) and the Bishop's Palace. The cathedrals are obviously worth seeing. The audioguide was interesting, but you wouldn't miss out on much if you didn't fancy listening to it. It's free with entry. After the cathedrals, I went to the Bishop's Palace, which has a couple of floors of religious art. Not my thing, so I zoomed around. In the final room, there a dozen or so VR headsets. You sit down, select your language, and put the headset on. It takes you on a magnificent, if not frightening, tour of both cathedrals. It is incredible. If you don't like heights, don't do it. This would be the highlight for kids.

Salamanca is "blessed" with two major cathedrals. The Old Cathedral, which some deemed to be "too dark and too boring," was be demolished when construction of new cathedral began in the early 1500s. But it soon became clear that it would take decades for the new cathedral to be completed, so the old one was retained. Two centuries later, Salamanca finally had two cathedrals, standing side by side. Eventually, plans to tear down the old structure were dismissed and the two gems stand together to this day.

The new and old cathedrals in Salamanca are side by side, and they share the cloister. One ticket gives you access to both cathedrals and to the cloister. Both cathedrals are part of the UNESCO heritage site "Old City of Salamanca". The construction of the old cathedral took place between the first third of the 12th century and the end of the 14th century. It is in Romanesque and Gothic style. Much smaller than the New Cathedral, it is however - according to me - much more striking, with its main altarpiece, chapels, tombs, chapterhouse and cloister.

There aren't many places in the world where you have two religious objects attached together. I saw such Churches in Portugal, but Cathedrals I don't recall I did. That's just the case here in Salamanca. The old Romanesque/Gothic Cathedral was built after defeating the Moors in 12c. However, with establishing Spain's oldest University across it, over the time with population growth it became small, so they started a new Cathedral to build right beside the existing one in 16c. The new Cathedral was finished in 18c, after 200 years, in Gothic/Baroque. Entry (includes both of them) is 10 Euros. If you strictly follow the audio guide it will take almost hour and a half. What really annoyed me, already not so cheap fee I mentioned does not include climbing the Ieronimus bell tower which is extra 5 - too greedy imo, so we didn't climb it and therefore deduct one star.