La Alberca Tourist Office

La Alberca's tourist office is at Plaza Mayor 11, in the same building as the town hall, right in the centre of the first village in Spain declared a Historic Site, in 1940. It is the place to ask for the urban route map, the leaflets for the walking routes that start from the village and information on festivals, museums and accommodation. You can walk to it from anywhere in the old town, and it is a good first stop before getting lost in the streets.

Contact and hours

The office's phone number is 923 415 291 and the email, [email protected]. Neither the town hall's website nor the Castilla y León Tourism listing publishes its opening hours, so if you are going at a particular time or out of season, call beforehand. For municipal matters that are not tourism, the town hall can be reached on 923 41 50 36 and at [email protected].

What they give you

The most useful thing is the urban route map, which tours the old town and marks the parish church of Nuestra Señora de la Asunción and the place of the Moza de Ánimas, one of the village's best-known traditions. The office also hands out the leaflets for the waymarked routes, which the town hall also has to download on its website: the Camino de las Raíces, the Camino del Agua, the Camino de los Prodigios, the Camino Asentadero or forest of mirrors, the Camino de la Peña de Francia, the route from La Alberca to Herguijuela and the one from La Alberca to Las Batuecas. In the same section there is a street map of the village, a guide to the Albercano house and maps of the province of Salamanca, also in English.

If you do not have time to drop in, download the street map and the leaflet for the route you want to do before you arrive, and carry it on your phone or printed for the way.

The office and the Casa del Parque

For the natural park's routes, the state of the paths and the rules, the reference is the Las Batuecas-Sierra de Francia Casa del Parque, on the Las Batuecas road, number 22, on the outskirts of the village. It has published hours: in low season it opens Fridays and Saturdays from 10:00 to 14:00 and from 16:00 to 18:00, and Sundays from 10:00 to 14:00; for the rest of 2026 it also opens on 7 and 8 December. Phone, 923 415 421. Admission is free.

What to see from here

From the office door begins the walk round the old town and Plaza Mayor, with its arcades on granite columns and the cross in the middle. The 8 km Camino de las Raíces leaves the village, and the PRSA-10 goes down to the Las Batuecas valley. By car, a few minutes away, are Mogarraz, with the portraits of its residents on the façades, and the Peña de Francia. If you come without a car, see the timetables of the bus to Salamanca. For a meal on the same square, La Catedral.