The Recovery of the Cerro de San Vicente

The protohistoric town of San Vicente was discovered in 1949 following the construction of the university college of the Pontifical University of Salamanca, Na Sra. de Guadalupe, recently demolished. Archaeological research has been carried out since 1990, at the request of the Ministry of Culture of the Junta de Castilla y León and the City Council of Salamanca, leading to the approval of the Special Plan of Cerro de San Vicente in 1997, whose development has allowed to recover the historic urban layout and the acquisition for the public domain of most of the plots affected by the most relevant archaeological remains, guaranteeing their protection and public enjoyment.

In this sense, the execution of the Project of the Works of Protection of the Remains of the Plant of the Old Convent of San Vicente, promoted by the His Excellency City Council of Salamanca, has meant the construction of a museographic space on the claustral sector of the old convent of San Vicente de Salamanca, the demolition of the Colegio Mayor Na Sra. de Guadalupe and the excavation of a space of 400 m2 located in the central core of the primitive protohistoric town for its valorization and public exhibition, laying the foundations of an interpretation center in the original settlement of the city of Salamanca.