EL CERRO DE SAN VICENTE

A timid Cerro de San Vicente, still standing between the Tormes River and the Teso de las Catedrales, tries today to recover that piece of history that the passage of the years has taken from it and show that there, camouflaged between the walls of its strategic situation, the first Salamancan population emerged 2,700 years ago. A walk around the old Benedictine convent, allows visitors to live with the customs of those first farmers and ranchers of the I Iron Age (s. VII BC), and with that first hectare and a half that Cristina Alario and Carlos Macarro, both archaeologists of the city, have brought to light after twenty-four years of excavations. Already aware of the Via de la Plata, a corridor that favored commercial exchange, these inhabitants occupied a steep place that still defends itself today, in which it was easy to access all natural resources: to water on a strip of the wading river, to land suitable for agriculture and to a wide dehesa charra that favors livestock farming.