The city is large enough (180.000 inhabitants) to be able to offer the advantages of a
real city, but at the same time it keeps the intimacy of a village. In Salamanca, the
inhabitants speak the "purest" Spanish in Spain - Castilian. For this reason
Salamanca is enormously popular with people all over the world who want to learn Spanish.
Contacts are made easily. You don't have to make rendezvous as you are bound to see
everyone in the Plaza Mayor, one of the finest squares in Spain and known as the
living room of the Salamantinos. As there is such a varied range of nationalities,
it is tempting to keep to fellow don Quijote students. Salamanca is however, a
real university city, Spanish students are everywhere and you can go practically
everywhere on foot.