[EN]The main aims of this study are two: on the one hand, to analyze the causes that made possible the assumption and the presence of the political press and the right of citizens to freely express their ideas and political thoughts, without leaving aside the legislative developments in this area; but also, and in line with this first aim, to present the results that all this produced at the local level, i.e. which kind of press was published, its periodicity and duration, the character it took, who were its mentors and promoters and how was it received by the public. In short, to make known the press of Salamanca of the first liberalism, of an unquestionable value as a documentary source, and to deepen the analysis of the press that is already known, at the same time that new numbers and locations are offered, but above all rescuing new titles so far unknown and/or delocalized.

[ES] Dos son los objetivos principales del presente estudio: analizar las causas que posibilitaron la asunci?n y presencia de la prensa pol?tica, el derecho de los ciudadanos a expresar libremente sus ideas y pensamientos pol?ticos, sin olvidar para ello la evoluci?n legislativa en esta materia. Pero tambi?n, y paralelamente, presentar los resultados que ello produjo a nivel local, esto es, que prensa se public?, que frecuencia y que duraci?n tuvo, el car?cter que tom?, qui?n o qui?nes fueron sus mentores y promotores y la aceptaci?n que tuvo. En definitiva, dar a conocer la prensa salmantina durante el primer liberalismo, de indudable valor como fuente documental, profundizando en el an?lisis de la ya conocida, al tiempo que se ofrecen nuevos n?meros y localizaciones, pero sobre todo rescatando nuevos t?tulos hasta ahora desconocidos y/o deslocalizados.