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Alba de Tormes is a municipality in the province of Salamanca, western Spain, part of the autonomous community of
Castile and León Castile and León ( es, Castilla y León ; ast-leo, Castiella y Llión ; gl, Castela e León ) is an autonomous community in northwestern Spain. It was created in 1983, eight years after the end of the Francoist regime, by the merging of the ...
. The town is on the River Tormes upstream from the city of Salamanca. Alba gave its name to one of Spain's most important dukedoms, who had their ancestral seat in the Castillo de los Duques de Alba. St Teresa of Ávila died at a convent she founded in the town and is buried there. From the 12th to the 19th century, the monastery of San Leonardo was located outside the walls of Alba.


Notable people

* Fernando Álvarez de Toledo, 3rd Duke of Alba * saint Teresa of Ávila died at Alba * saint John of the Cross * Eloíno Nácar Fúster, priest and Bible translator


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See also

* Battle of Alba de Tormes


References

Municipalities in the Province of Salamanca * {{Salamanca-geo-stub