Top 12 Castles around Sierra De Fuentes

The historic center of Cáceres, declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site, is one of the most impressive monumental complexes in Spain. Walking through its cobbled streets is like traveling to the Middle Ages, thanks to its excellent state of preservation and the absence of modern buildings that alter its aesthetics.

Walking anywhere along its narrow cobblestone streets is like traveling back in time. You'll find yourself surrounded by mansions, Renaissance palaces, and churches crowned with stork nests, and you'll understand why Cáceres is a World Heritage City. Get your camera ready to photograph one of Spain's most beautiful historic centers.

Being able to walk anywhere through its narrow cobbled streets is like traveling to another era. You will be surrounded by mansions, Renaissance palaces and churches crowned with stork nests and you will understand why Cáceres is a World Heritage City. Prepare your camera to photograph one of the most beautiful historic centers in Spain.

It is the largest palace in the Monumental City, since it occupied the space of almost twenty houses. It has one of the most beautiful facades in Cáceres, uniting different architectural styles: Gothic, Renaissance and Plateresque. Alfiz, mullioned windows, shields, cartouches, medallions in the classical style and a finishing of facing griffins, similar to that of the Monterrey Palace in Salamanca, have made this building one of the most significant and reproduced in multiple supports (painting, photography, films …). On the main façade we see a twin window with a semicircular arch and marble mullion, with an Ionic capital, and above it, the coat of arms of the Catholic Monarchs. Below the window, the Golfines shield held by two angels and a laurel with the inscription “Fer de Fer”, this gives us to understand that this palace was the place chosen by the Catholic Monarchs to stay when they visited Cáceres in 1480.

It is a construction of Arab origin and built on Roman ashlars. It stands within the defensive fence of the monumental city of Cáceres. It is 25 meters high and has a square floor plan. It appears topped by a ring of battlements, two lateral machicolations and one frontal one, which was added in the 18th century. On the western side, facing the Plaza Mayor, is the small balcony of the Fueros, from the 16th century.

Inside it has a patio flanked by four galleries with columns with lowered arches on the ground floor and geminates with a hanging keystone on the upper part. The Palace is a balanced building, of which its tower stands out, much higher than those of the rest of the palaces of the Monumental City, because when Queen Isabel, the Catholic, ordered the towers of Cáceres to be demolished, she made an exception for this one. which was then being built by order of Captain Diego de Ovando, a vassal and member of his Royal Council, who was allowed to build the palace and tower as he wished. It is built on the ruins of the old Muslim fortress and the completion of the construction dates back to the beginning of the 16th century. On its façade, shields are combined with the weapons of the Ovando and the Mogollón, framed by an alfiz. Recommendations: It belongs to the Ministry of Defense, inside there is a collection of weapons, funds donated by the Army Museum. You can visit the tower upon request. Exhibitions are usually organized with some regularity.

One of the most important monuments and symbol of Cáceres, the Torre de Bujaco was built by the Almohads in the 12th century. The famous 25 m high tower was added in the 18th century.

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