Universidad de Oviedo (UNIOVI)

Oviedo is a great city to study and live but an effort is needed if you wish to get away from an English dominated way of life. Travel: Take advantage of the opportunity to explore this part of Spain. Travel by bus, it´s cheaper than train and actually faster.

If you want to go to Spain but do not like the herds of tourist, come to Oviedo. There are NO tourists in Oviedo, it is a safe, nice, and extremely clean city.

You have to arrange your accomodation yourself, but the university can offer assistance in finding one. They have some offers at the International Relations Office in the centre. But a lot of them are outdated or have other disadvantages, like location, costs etc. At the end it was not that difficult to find a decent place to live.

Oviedo is a great place to go if you REALLY want to learn the language. Most of the local people and stores, DON'T know English, so you are forced to speak spanish all the time--which is the BEST way to learn. Other more touristy places in spain that we traveled to, as soon as a local thought that you were American, they would speak English to you, which at times you were thankful for, but it didn't allow you to practice and struggle through situations that would make you better at Spanish.

The banks were taking money for every operations,the phone cards were quite cheap,i could use internet at the university,i was mostly eating with my friends at somesbody home-the way to safe on restaurants.

Take advantage of the 'Tandem' and 'Mentor' schemes.