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Casa de las Conchas
C/ Compañía 39
Salamanca
Castilla y León
Spain
92 326 93 17
Type: Religious Site
Hours: Mon.-Fri. 9:00 am-9:00 pm, Sat. and Sun. 9:00 am-2:00 pm and 4:00-7:00 pm
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Salamanca
Castilla y León
Spain
92 326 93 17
Type: Religious Site
Hours: Mon.-Fri. 9:00 am-9:00 pm, Sat. and Sun. 9:00 am-2:00 pm and 4:00-7:00 pm
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It’s amazing what a few shells can do for an otherwise boringexterior. Rodrigo Aría Maldonado, ambassador to the Catholic Monarchs and Knight of the Order of Santiago, built the House of the Shells in 1490. Apart from the paired Isabeline window and the Maldonado family’s coat of arms, there are over 300 shells adorning the façade of this former mansion, each roughly eight inches in diameter (just you try and count them all).
The scalloped shells – if you were won- dering why in the world someone would think to do such a thing – are traditionally associated with the Apostle St. James.
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