Peñaranda de Bracamonte
Credential
Where to get a stamp
Your credential can be stamped in:
–Town Hall, from 9 AM to 2 PM, Monday to Friday.
923 54 00 01 info@bracamonte.org
–Tourist Office, from 10AM to 2 PM, Tuesday to Saturday
605 94 21 42 turismo@bracamonte.org
Accommodation
For pilgrims and private accommodation
Albergue Juvenil* “Diego Torres y Villaroel” 923 54 09 88
* You need to have an specific ID that allows you to sleep in this type of accommodation (more info here)
- Hotels and apartments.
Food and drinks
Where to eat/ buy food and drinks
- Plenty of bars, restaurants, shops and supermarkets.
Visit
Discover what to visit
- Convent and Museum Madres Carmelitas (17th century)
- Hermitage of El Humilladero
- San Miguel Church
- Calderón Theatre
- House of Art
Mass timetable:
Church: Daily at 8 PM, Sundays at 1 PM.
Convent of Madres Carmelitas: Daily at 12 AM
Health
Pharmacy and Medical Centre
- Pharmacy
- Medical Centre
- Emergencies
More info
Find out more
Train station (renfe), bus station, local police.
About Peñaranda de Bracamonte...
Santa Teresa was also known as the Holy Wanderer, and it is in this fact that her relationship with Peñaranda de Bracamonte is sustained.
On the trip to the foundation of Salamanca, in October 1570, Teresa passed through this town. She arrived at the town sick and stayed that night at the house of D. Juan de Bracamonte and his wife. From there she continued the next day to Salamanca, as she herself recounts:
“We arrived (in Salamanca) on the eve of All Saints, having traveled the road the night before was very cold, and slept there while I was very ill”.
(Teresa de Jesus, Foundations, 18,3)
On other trips to Salamanca, in 1571 and 1573, and on the last trip of her life, in September 1582, Teresa also passed near Peñaranda.
At the time in which the Saint lived, our town didn’t have a religious order. A century later, one of its most distinguished devotees from Peñaranda, Don Gaspar de Bracamonte y Guzmán, decides to found a convent of Discalced Carmelite nuns, and donates an extensive collection of both pictorial and sculptural art to its residents.