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“A city of thousand coats of arms“ City tours:
cáceres Introduction The Council of Europe recognised Cáceres as the Third Monumental Ensemble of the continent in 1968 and the UNESCO has declared it as a World Heritage Site in 1986. Today we shall explore the city of thousand coats of arms following in the footsteps of the Romans, Muslims, Jews and Christians; visiting a medieval and renaissance architectural ensemble where walls, towers, palaces, cisterns, temples and convents will make us believe that time has come to a standstill.
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One of the oldest temples of the city is located outside the walled enclosure: Church of Santiago de los Caballeros, dating back to the 18thcentury, whose most important piece is the main Altarpiece by Berruguete. It is common to see pilgrims in its vicinity, as it is just o the Vía de la Plata that leads to Santiago de Compostela.
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Plaza de Santa María
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Torre de Bujaco (plaza Mayor)
We start in the Plaza Mayor, a renovated space and a genuine epicentre of social life of Cáceres city, where after visiting the tourism o ce we will see part of the old Arab wall, the Tower of Púlpitos and Tower of Bujaco, the emblem of the city. After passing through the Arco de la Estrella we will turn left to enter the old town discovering palaces such as Toledo Moctezuma, leading up to the Plaza de Santa María, which houses the procathedral with the same name, the Episcopal palace, Mayoralgo Palace and adjacent to the said temple, the recommendable Carvajal Palace, head o ce of the Tourism Service of the Regional Government of Cáceres. Multiple signs show the Romanisation of the city after the foundation of the colony Norba Caesarina in the I century BC. It was endowed with a strong defensive wall with four gateways that served as entry points to its interior; the Vía de la Plata or the Silver Route, coming to the city from Mérida and going towards Astorga, passed alongside the walls on its eastern side, where the remains of the only Roman entrance is still standing: Puerta del Río or Arco del Cristo.
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Tourism o ce Plaza. Mayor, 3 927 010 834 / 36 www.turismo.ayto-caceres.es Tourism o ce of the Regional Govt. of Cáceres. Palacio de Carvajal 927 255 597
A city of thousand coats of arms: Cáceres