Travel to Salamanca

How do I get to Salamanca?

By plane via Madrid/Valladolid

Salamanca's nearest international airports are Madrid (2.5 hours away) and Valladolid (1.5 hours away). The latter is served mainly by Ryanair with flights to London-Stanstead, Milano, Paris and Brussels. The former is served by a huge amount of traditional and low cost airlines.

Salamanca has an airport served by Iberia with flights to Barcelona. If Iberia serves your city airport it is worth checking out their webpage (www. iberia.com) to see if you can fly to Salamanca via Barcelona.  A long shot, but worth a try. 

Madrid’s Barajas is 230 kms and Valladolid’s Villanubla is 130 kms from Salamanca.

Click here for options for getting from these airports to Salamanca by bus, train or private taxi service.

ISLA can buy you tickets on all public coaches and trains from Madrid and Valladolid to Salamanca.These cost 25.80 euros (bus) and 19.85 euros (train) each way to Madrid and 9 euros (bus) and 8.55 euros (train) each way to Valladolid. You can select these options on the booking form. All tickets will be send to you by pdf in advance of your journey. All you need to do is print them up.

By train: 
The border entry from France is Irún very close to San Sebastián (you will be coming off a SNCF French train). There are two trains a day at 13.20 and 22.20 arriving in Salamanca at 19.38 and 04.31 respectively (a one way ticket costs 37.40 euros).  Trains from Barcelona via Zaragoza take 9 hours departing Barcelona at 12.00 and arriving in Salamanca at 21.02. The price of a one way ticket is 69.40 euros. 

By car:
If you arrive by car you can leave it in the street though we can arrange a garage for you. If you are coming from San Sebastián avoid the super expensive highway to Bilbao take the AP1 to Miranda de Ebro instead. From Madrid take the A6 highway to Villacastín then the A51 to Ávila and finally the A50 for Salamanca.

Long distance coaches:
ALSA (www.alsa.es) offers long distance coach journey which are cheap… and long (nearly 30 hours to either Munich or London). Other destinations include: Basel, Zurich, Rennes, Grenoble, Lyon, Nice, Paris, London, Munich, Hannover, Hamburg, Utrecht.

Emergency phone numbers:
If you have any problems en route or you need help you can call one of these emergency phone numbers (0034) 646980353, (0034) 660479333. We speak Spanish, English, German and French, so do not worry….

Arrival time
It is very important that you let the school offices know when you are arriving at least 3 days before you come to make sure they have time to alert flatowners/flatmates/families.
If for some reason there is no one at home, first call the accommodation contact phone number if there is one and then call the emergency phone numbers.

Contact Sara with any questions sara@academiaisla.com