Alcazar

I know this picture doesn’t look like much, but this is one of my favorite pictures I took from Salamanca, not because of the statue, but because of what’s behind it. While in Salamanca we visited the Universidad de Salamanca. I have heard about the Universidad de Salamanca for years because I have a professor at Middle Tennessee State University that attended the Universidad de Salamanca. Honestly, after visiting the one building of the school I was no impressed. It was very small. I pictured the campus to be something huge and amazing, but what we saw at first was not. Then, after we were released to walk around the city ourselves, I got a chance to tour more of the campus and see some of the buildings and facilities of the school. This is one of the last things I took a picture of in Salamanca. It’s a statue on the campus that says, “Principe de Asturias y Señor de Salamanca en el”. It is in a prominent plaza on the campus so you would think it’s an important part of the history. But what I like about the photo is the graffiti behind it. In recent months, after a few of my classes I have learned to look beyond what’s in front of you and see more than just the object and that’s what I did with this picture. Something so important to the school, a school that’s been around for more than almost every other school in the world, in one of the most well known cities in Spain, and yet- there’s still someone that wants to ruin it. This graffiti shows me that no matter where you go in the world, or how important something is, there will always be someone that doesn’t see the significance in it. There are always those people that honestly- just don’t care. That is what I learned from this picture.