Spain: the health crisis has stopped the arrival of foreign students in Salamanca
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The Mayor Square in Salamanca is considered one of the most beautiful squares in Spain (illustrative image).
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By: Diane Cambon
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Along with Bologna, Oxford and the Sorbonne, the University of Salamanca is one of the oldest in the world.
A prestige that makes this city a reference for learning the language of Cervantes.
This attracts 34,000 students per year, from the United States to China, including all European nationalities.
However, the health crisis brought this activity to a halt.
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Tourism is also at half mast, which today plunges the beautiful city of Castile and Leon to the edge of an economic abyss.
In Spain, the unemployment rate passed the 16% mark for the third quarter.
Report from Salamanca.
The report can be found in its entirety in Accents d'Europe.
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