From the beginning of his stay in Salamanca, was active in cultural life, and became a regular presence on the terrace of Café Novelty literary, 4 near the town hall in the Plaza Mayor of Salamanca, a practice that continued until 1936. From that terrace when Unamuno, referring to the Plaza Mayor of Salamanca, he was asked if he was a perfect square or not, he said: "It is a quadrilateral. Irregular"