la rana de salamanca

So they turn a frog into a major tourist attraction. Well it's an interesting feature of a superb exhibition of carving. Plateresque?

I have a friend studying nursing. I decided to gift her a lil figurine of the frog on the skull for good luck. She's into skulls and absolutely loved the story.

A tradition runs that no student at the Salamanca University will ever gradute until s/he has found the forg that is part of the intricate decoration of the façade of the University on the Pateo de las Esculeas. It turns out to be actually difficult to find the diminute frog among so many figures, although nowadays many people know beforehand where it stands even before they get there. Being one of the most popular traditions of Salamanca, one shouldn't leave town without trying to find the elusive frog. And... of course, I am not going to spoil the game by telling you where to find it...

No wonder there are always hordes of people standing, bemused, and looking up at the façade of the Escuelas Menores.Trying to see that flipping frog.If you are the first person in your group to see it, you are guaranteed good luck all year. Or possibly just in your exams - there are different versions. Buy a lottery ticket anyway, if it's you.:-)But if you can't see it, and someone finally points it out to you, you can't believe that there is so much of a fuss made about it. Especially when it actually doesn't look like a frog at all, just a shapeless lump of plasticine on top of the skull.TIP 1: If you want to find it yourself, stop reading now, because at the end I'm going to tell you where it is, in TIP 4. (But actually, tips 2, 3 and 5 are worth reading . . .)TIP 2: You can buy wooden frogs, ceramic frogs, fluffy frogs, plastic frogs and probably hand-knitted-by-an-old-lady frogs in the tourist shops in the Rua Mayor.TIP 3: Remember what the philosopher Unamuno said. Well, you probably can't remember because you don't know that he said it in the first place. :-) But he, a distinguished Salamanca resident and Professor, said: "It's not that they can see the frog, it's that they can see nothing BUT the frog". In other words stop, turn around, and admire the whole of the little square, an architectural gem in its own right, never mind that flipping amphibian!TIP 4: So where is it then?Look straight ahead, then to the right - there is a column. About half way up there is a sort of overhang of the column, and there you will see three skulls - said to represent the dead children of Queen Isabel. The left-hand skull has a shapeless lump on it.That's it. That's the famous frog.TIP 5: Much more fun to go to the New Cathedral, built in 16th-18th centuries, and find the carving of an astronaut, and of a dragon eating an ice-cream cone. :-)

overrated but still a funny thing to do. look for other parts in the facade (as offered on the big board that stands over there). without binoculars it will be hard to see that it is really a frog. the funny thing is that many people point to many directions claiming that they see it :)

When I told my Spanish friends I was going to Salamanca, the first thing they could remember was the frog. Nobody could tell me the building where it was but everybody knew we were going to find it. In fact, it is pretty easy. Just look for a university entrance where there are dozens of people looking at some point near the upper end of a huge door. But don’t expect much. The frog is barely recognizable.

... it's supposed to bring you luck. We had it pointed out to us, well ... it's a bit weather-beaten! Just about recognisable as a frog. Buy a plastic one from a souvenir shop instead.

Spoiler alert...Don't look up to the right on the skull!!!

es la tradición ir a buscar la rana en la pared, sobre todo los estudiantes que dicen que trae suerte si la encuentras, se supone que te vas a sacar sin problema tus estudios, aunque la verdad que esta difícil de localizar porque esta muy desgastada por el tiempo, pero pasas un rato muy divertido

パラドールに宿泊だっため、２往復しました。昼と夜とで！結婚写真を撮影していたり、旧市街に入るためにはこの橋を渡ります。人しか渡れないので！　旧市街の撮影ポイントの一つです

Развлечение под названием "поиск лягушки", которое делает честь его изобретателям, способным из любой мелочи сделать достопримечательность.

La encontre porque me la señalaron, si no imposible.La fachada de la universidad es majestuosa.El cielo de Salamanca una obra de arte.

Yo ya sabia donde se encontraba , de anteriores viajes, pero fue muy divertido como mi pareja lo buscaba, incluso la de gente que se para a buscarla.

Dice la leyenda que el estudiante que encuentre la rana sobre la calavera sin ayuda, aprobará los exámenes, y si no eres estudiante, tendrás suerte. Te aconsejo que aunque solo sea por divertimento debes intentarlo. Está en la fachada del edificio de Escuelas Mayores, calle Libreros con Patio de Escuelas. También podrás leer en el sinóptico allí existente algunas curiosidades sobre las figuras de la fachada. En el Patio de Escuelas, tienes una escultura de Fray Luis de León que merece la pena ver.

Es difícil de encontrar pero si te lo propones seguro que lo consigues . Lo que mas me gustó el entorno, la portada , todo es precioso.