Salamanca has a great variety of handicrafts, here you can find basketry, silverware, fraying, flaked wax, bronze items, wood carving, palm leaf masks, wool weaving, decorative candles, rag dolls in costumes and pre-Hispanic musical instruments.

There are many workshops that you can visit to learn more about the making of all these beautiful items.

However, perhaps what Salamanca is best known for is its spectacular Christmas nativity scenes made with wax figures.

Other products that you can buy in Salamanca are delicious nopal or xoconoxtle jams.

All these attractive handicrafts can be found at the Casa de Artesanías in the Plazoleta Hidalgo.