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Stories Set in Salamanca
Golden sandstone and Europe's oldest lecture halls: Salamanca is a university town where students have drunk and debated for eight centuries. War keeps interrupting the seminars, on screen and off. Vantage Point staged its summit here; While at War defends Unamuno. Open Salamanca on the StoryTerra map and filter its stories by any era.
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Browse 4 books and 3 movies set in Salamanca.
Vantage Point
The attempted assassination of the American president is told and re-told from several different perspectives.
While at War
Salamanca Spain 1936. In the early days of the military rebellion that began the Spanish Civil War (1936-39) writer Miguel de Unamuno supports the uprising in the hope that the prevailing political chaos will end. But…
Sharpe's Skirmish: Richard Sharpe and the Defence of the Tormes, August 1812
Richard Sharpe and the defence of the Tormes, August 1812It is the summer of 1812 and Richard Sharpe, newly recovered from the wound he received in the fighting at Salamanca, is given an easy duty; to guard a Commissary…
Sharpe's Sword
The greatest threat to Wellington's Salamanca Campaign is not Napoleon's Army but France's deadliest assassin. He's already failed to kill Captain Richard Sharpe once. Now, he's getting a second chance.
Black Serenade
Students of the university of Salamanca are brutally murdered by a black masked minstrel. Alex an architecture student who has recently moved to Salamanca discovers a pattern behind the killings; it seems as if the…
Fra Pierino e il suo ciuchino
C'erano venti frati, in un antichissimo convento vicino a Salamanca (Spagna). Testa rapata, barba bianchissima e saio rammendato, camminavano in fila per gli immensi porticati del chiostro... L'irruzione di fra Pierino…
El cuarto de atrás
Durante una noche de insomnio, la escritora recibe la visita de un desconocido interlocutor cuya identidad permanecerá oculta en todo momento... Los recuerdos de infancia y juventud en Salamanca se irán mezclando con…
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