Salamanca is famous for its oldest universities, not only in Spain but as well as in the European countries. The university that they have became the most attractive edifice in Spain where it is also the sanctuary of many students from all over the world. Aside from that, Salamanca as well regarding on their architectural design has never been touch with their originality. The city is the best place also not only for studying purposes but also with their vibrant nightlife, for those locals and tourist who were looking for a place to unwind or relax. There are best featured places to venture nightlife in Salamanca:

• Garamond—it is the favorite place of the luxurious Spaniards for relaxation. This disco bar features sports a classy medieval ornaments as well as strict dress code. Its operating hours starts from Sun-Thu 6pm-3:30am and Fri-Sat 6pm-4:30am.

• Teatriz—this trendy bar café is one of the most visited and famous bars in Salamanca. Its previous originality is a theatre which became now as a fashionable bar café. Its unique avant-garde design and traditional architecture give an artsy and diverse atmosphere and attracts numerous night goers both local and tourists. It houses two bars; comfy and smug, and spacious and velvety. This bar café is open all day.

• Gabana—one of the most famous disco pub in Salamanca that implements strict dress code. The music mostly played here are pop and Top 40 music that allures various crowd that includes famous and wealthy. This disco pub as well is best described by many as “Hot and Happening”.

• Balmoral—this bar is featured by the Newsweek magazine as one of the best bars all over the world. It features the style of stag heads and stuffed grouse. Night goers here can witness the most famous 100+ cocktails that include Bullet Shot and Bloody Mary and Balmoral. Its opening hours starts from Mon-Sat 12:30pm-3:00pm, 7pm-2:30am.

• Bar Independencia—this bar is most popular amongst the young professional nightlife lovers. This is a two-room bar with an old-fashioned or an old-fashioned as a disco can be. It features music from the Spanish oldie hits to Top 40 tunes.

Another great place to socialise in Salamanca and enjoy a glamorous night is the casino. Popular with tourists to the city (the Germans who like to play pokern for example) and so has a real cosmopolitan, exciting feel to it. A truely glam night out!

ALTHOUGH not a state in itself, Puerto Rico is a territory of the United States. All of the inhabitants here speak Spanish. Most of the inhabitants though would like to go to the mainland states to try to achieve the American dream. Eventually, they wind up successful living in condo suites in Brooklyn. Once retired, you may as well find some time to visit the land where your language Spanish comes from – Spain across the Atlantic.

The United States is currently in the brink of recession. On the other hand, European countries such as Spain are making sure they will not be heading that way. You too can surely help dealing with that by spending. Vacationing to one country in Europe like Spain is one way to help. By reserving a flight alone through online travel agency Expedia, you will be dumping bucks for the American economy because Expedia is based in the United States.

When you board an Iberian Airlines flight bound for Madrid, you will then help the Spanish economy. If you take the Eurostar from Madrid to Salamanca, part of what you’ve spent goes to the economy of the United Kingdom because Eurostar is a British company operating in mainland Europe.

Salamanca is the most Americanized city in Spain (many students can fund long stays by giving one to one English class to local “salmantino” students). That is why I want Americans to go there and not elsewhere in the country. Salamanca was even the set of the upcoming Hollywood movie Vantage Point starring Matthew Fox of Lost and an ensemble cast of very talented actors such as William Hurt, Forest Whitaker and Sigourney Weaver including that hunk who has two infant twins, Dennis Quaid. Because of this fact, employees in the hospitality sector in Salamanca can speak American English or the one with the rhotic accent. They are very professional and courteous because they are trained by Swiss hospitality universities and colleges.

But if you want to acquire Spanish as a second language, there are also lots of language institutions in Salamanca. When you do that, you can contribute to the economy in Salamanca already. It is not just tourism though that Salamanca is relying on. There are also tungsten mines there. For 2008 alone, Ormonde Mining PLC has spotted five more tungsten deposit sites in Salamanca. Ormonde Mining PLC estimates that there are around 5 million tons of tungsten deposit in Salamanca. This can surely buoy up the economy of the country whose central bank, the Bank of Spain, in conjunction with the European Central Bank, Prime Minister Zapatero and his counterparts at the World Economic Forum in Davos have already been panicking because of the stock market run in the United States.

Money is often a very important factor to all the students who study here - many have part time jobs whilst as a student and can forget things like they are sometimes entitled to taxback should they be in full time education - something which, although Salamanca is a relatively cheap city, when compared to Madrid for example, is always welcome!

Now let’s talk about foreign affairs. Salamanca has just established its sisterhood ties with Tehran. Tehran is one fascinating city. In fact, its former mayor who is now president of the country, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, has been nominated as the world’s best mayor during his reign.

SALAMANCA is one of the most beautiful cities in Spain and its image has indeed been boosted with the release of the Hollywood thriller Vantage Point in 2008 which is set in Salamanca. The movie, even though shot entirely in Mexico, features the city in precision down to the logo and the color and even the model of the Guardia Civil cars. Salamanca is one of the favorite destinations for British and Scandinavian tourists this Christmas season.

Aside from enjoying the beauty of Christmas here in Salamanca, have fun in other endeavors as well. For example, you can enjoy having to learn Spanish right here in Salamanca. There are numerous schools right here splashed in the middle of Salamanca which offers two-week short courses in Spanish. Here, you can learn Spanish the fun way. The lessons are not induced in boring lectures but all in a participative mood.

The tutors make use of slides where you can recite out loud the few vocabularies that you have learned so far during the course. Make no mistake, the Spanish crash course here is already included in bundled tour packages during Christmas so you will be toured with the many attractions in Salamanca as well.

And in Salamanca, even though it is not located in the Mediterranean, there are numerous swimming pools here to have a perfect romantic vacation. Since Salamanca is located in the middle of a hot city with so many Moorish-inspired buildings, it is not that cold here during winter so this vacation can really be a pleasurable one.

You can have a romantic evening with your partner or if you have a kid in tow, you can put your kid at one of the nurseries in the hotel that you are staying. Salamanca offers a varied selection of five-star hotels and inns. These inns have newly-installed nurseries, an addition that has been the trend recently following the Madeleine McCann kidnapping in nearby Portugal. And get this folks – these nurseries are all manned by professional child psychologists so your stay will definitely be a pleasant one and you need not worry about your child’s welfare because these nurseries are operating 24 hours.

With this freedom in mind- do something you’ve never tried before! Salamanca has a very prestigious casino to be enjoyed and what better excuse to experience the glamour of the poker tables than a holiday? You needn’t spend too much once inside but you should plan in advance how much you are prepared to lose - you don’t want to be struggling come the end of your holiday! Of course, your luck could go the other way and you may find yourself with enough to finance another city break! Give yourself the best chances by practising poker online before you come away - you’ll make the most of your Ocean’s 11 experience and feel a lot more confident on entering Salamanca’s extravagant secret!

Binge on some of the best Salamanca food at the topmost restaurants here. After all, these restaurants are regularly checked by the Salamanca tourism ministry because they don’t want to feel embarrassed with poor service. Tourism is one of the lifeblood of their economy here. There are lots of yummy treats available in the Salamanca way like several variants of the famed Spanish staple tortilla, chorizo and the fish. How can anybody forget how tasty the fish here is? Fish here is sautéed, fried and grilled the Mediterranean way – in olive oil.

In fact, you can even order fish right from the aquarium before they are cooked in various forms - monkfish, salmon and king prawns bundled in one salad; sautéed langoustinos in garlic sauce (hmm…yummy), king prawns marinated in chili (get that?); seafood salad with marinated octopus, squid and mussels; oysters dipped in lime; lobsters dipped in tartar sauce; and everything else in between.