Editing Cáceres, Spain

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'''Cáceres''' ({{IPAc-en|US|ˈ|k|ɑː|s|ə|r|eɪ|s}} {{respell|KAH|sə|rayss}},<ref>{{Cite Merriam-Webster|Cáceres|access-date=6 August 2019}}</ref> {{IPA|es|ˈkaθeɾes|lang|Pronunciation_of_Cáceres_in_Spanish.ogg}}) is a city and [[Spain|Spanish]] municipality located in the center of the [[autonomous community]] of [[Extremadura]].<ref name="ciudadalfonsoxii">{{cite web|access-date=14 February 2015 |editor=[[Gobierno de España]] |title=Gaceta de Madrid de 11 de febrero de 1882 |url=http://boe.es/datos/pdfs/BOE//1882/042/A00557-00557.pdf}}<!-- auto-translated from Spanish by Module:CS1 translator --></ref> It is the capital and most populated municipality of the [[province of Cáceres]] and houses the headquarters of the Superior Court of Justice of Extremadura.<ref name="estatutoext2011">{{cite web|access-date=10 September 2014 |date=29 January 2011 |editor=[[Boletín Oficial del Estado]] |title=Ley Orgánica 1/2011, de 28 de enero, de reforma del Estatuto de Autonomía de la Comunidad Autónoma de Extremadura |url=http://www.boe.es/boe/dias/2011/01/29/pdfs/BOE-A-2011-1638.pdf}}<!-- auto-translated from Spanish by Module:CS1 translator --></ref>

The [[Municipalities of Spain|municipality]] has a land area of {{convert|1750.33|km2|2|abbr=on}}, the largest in Spain. According to official [[National Statistics Institute (Spain)|INE]] data for 2021, the municipality had a population of 95,418 inhabitants, of which 94,326 lived in the city itself.<ref name="nomenclator">{{cite web|access-date=7 February 2022 |editor=Instituto Nacional de Estadística de España |title=Nomenclátor |url=http://www.ine.es/nomen2/index.do}}<!-- auto-translated from Spanish by Module:CS1 translator --></ref> Numerous inhabited places are scattered throughout the municipality, including castles and farmhouses with several centuries of history.<ref>Navareño Mateos, Antonio; en ''"Arquitectura residencial en las dehesas de la tierra de Cáceres. Castillos, palacios y casas de campo"'' (p. 89, Ed. Institución de Cultural ''El Brocense'', 291 pp., 1999).</ref>  The medieval walled city was declared a [[World Heritage Site|World Heritage City]] by [[UNESCO]] in 1986.<ref name="guard">{{cite news|author=Sue George |url=https://www.theguardian.com/spanish-tourist-board/caceres-extramadura-spain |title=Cáceres: don't tell a soul &#124; Spanish Tourist Board |newspaper=The Guardian |date= 2 October 2009|access-date=26 March 2013 |location=London}}</ref>

Since 2008 the city has been organized into four districts: Center-Old Town, North, West and South; a fifth district, Pedanías, covers the non-urban part of the term.<ref>[https://www.ayto-caceres.es/ciudadania/participacion/reglamento-de-los-distritos-y-de-la-participacion-ciudadana-del-ayuntamiento-de-caceres/ Reglamento de los Distritos y de Participación Ciudadana de 2008] ''Ayuntamiento de Cáceres''</ref><ref name="poblaciónaños">[https://www.ayto-caceres.es/publicaciones/estadisticas/estadisticas-de-poblacion/ Estadísticas de población] ''Ayuntamiento de Cáceres''</ref>  The actual municipal population data varies significantly, fluctuating by more than 30,000 people primarily related to educational centers<ref name="flotante">[https://www.hoy.es/v/20140422/regional/caceres-lider-regional-poblacion-20140422.html Cáceres, líder regional en 'población flotante'] ''[[Hoy (Extremadura)|Hoy]]'', 22 April 2014</ref> such as the Cáceres Campus of the [[University of Extremadura]]<ref name="campuscc">[https://www.unex.es/conoce-la-uex/presentacion/conoce-extremadura/campus/caceres Campus de Cáceres] ''[[Universidad de Extremadura]]''</ref>  or the CEFOT-1 of the [[Spanish Army|Army]].<ref name="historiacefot">[https://ejercito.defensa.gob.es/unidades/Caceres/cefot1/Historial/index.html Historial - Centro de Formación de Tropa Nº1] ''[[Ministerio de Defensa (España)|Ministerio de Defensa]]''</ref> The city usually empties in summer, when many residents return to their towns of origin.<ref>[https://www.hoy.es/caceres/201408/16/ciudad-vacia-hoteles-llenos-20140816001334-v_amp.html Ciudad vacía, hoteles llenos] ''[[Hoy (Extremadura)|Hoy]]'', 16 August 2014</ref><ref>[https://www.hoy.es/caceres/201612/28/nevado-sobre-apertura-festivos-20161228195112.html Nevado, sobre la apertura de festivos: "El 15 de agosto en Cáceres no hay nadie"] ''[[Hoy (Extremadura)|Hoy]]'', 28 December 2016</ref>
Cáceres lies at the feet of the Sierra de la Mosca,<ref>{{Cite journal|journal=Alcántara|url=http://ab.dip-caceres.org/export/sites/default/comun/galerias/galeriaDescargas/archivo-y-biblioteca-de-la-diputacion/Alcantara/05-075-alc/05-075-012-Cxceres.pdf|page=121|location=Cáceres|publisher=Diputación Provincial de Cáceres|title=Cáceres, patrimonio natural|first=Salvador|last=Calvo Muñoz|issn=0210-9859|issue=75|year=2012<!--|pages=121–128-->|archive-date=13 February 2020|access-date=13 February 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200213222113/http://ab.dip-caceres.org/export/sites/default/comun/galerias/galeriaDescargas/archivo-y-biblioteca-de-la-diputacion/Alcantara/05-075-alc/05-075-012-Cxceres.pdf|url-status=dead}}</ref> a modest hill range. It is part of the ''[[Vía de la Plata]]'' ("Silver Route") path of the [[Camino de Santiago]] that crosses the west of the [[Iberian Peninsula]] in a north–south direction.

The [[Universidad de Extremadura]], and two astronomical [[observatory|observatories]] are situated in Cáceres. Today, the headquarters of the university as well as several regional government departments are found in Cáceres. The city is also a seat of the [[Roman Catholic Diocese of Coria-Cáceres]].

==Name==
[[File:Cáceres - Letras de la Plaza Mayor 8.jpg|thumb|upright=1.25|"Cáceres" letter art in the Main Plaza.]]No consensus has been reached among historians regarding the [[etymology]] of Cáceres, some considering its origin as [[Latin|Roman]] and others as [[Arabic]]. Among [[Philology|philologists]] the consensus is that it is [[Latin]] nomenclature deformed by Arabic, until finally adapting to the definitive Christian name, as happened with at least half of all place names of ancient origin in the southern [[Iberian Peninsula]].<ref name="Para evolución fonética">{{cite book|last1=Corriente Córdoba |date=1999 |first1=Federico |location=Madrid |publisher=Grados |title=Diccionario de arabismos y voces afines en iberorromance}}<!-- auto-translated from Spanish by Module:CS1 translator --></ref><ref name="Más para evolución fonética">{{cite book|last1=Qulis |date=2005 |first1=Antonio |location=Madrid |publisher=UNED |title=Fonética histórica y fonología diacrónica}}<!-- auto-translated from Spanish by Module:CS1 translator --></ref><ref>{{cite book|last1=Celdrán |date=2002 |first1=Pancracio |location=Madrid |publisher=Espasa-Calpe S.A. |title=Diccionario de topónimos españoles y sus gentilicios}}<!-- auto-translated from Spanish by Module:CS1 translator --></ref><ref>{{cite book|last1=Nieto Ballester |date=1997 |first1=Emilio |location=Madrid |publisher=Alianza Editorial |title=Breve diccionario de topónimos españoles }}</ref>

Regarding its possible Roman origin, two known Latin names could have evolved into the current "Cáceres." One would come from the colony "''Norba Caesarina''" (founded in 34 BC), "''Norba''" in honor of the hometown of [[Gaius Norbanus Flaccus (consul 38 BC)|Gaius Norbanus Flaccus]], the Roman general who founded the town, and "''Caesarina''" in memory of [[Julius Caesar]]. The other name is "''Castra Caecilia''," given by the consul Quinto Cecilio Metelo Pío to one of the military camps near the colony. With any of these [[Toponymy|toponyms]] based on "''castra''" ("camp"), its [[Ablative case|ablative]] "''castris''," which means "in the camp", could have provided the original form of the current "Cáceres."<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Salas Martín |first1=José |title=«Toponimia cacereña: ¿Cáceres Castra Caecilia? |journal=Anuario de estudios filológicos |date=1995 |volume=18 |issn=0210-8178|pages=423–437 |url=https://dialnet.unirioja.es/descarga/articulo/58857.pdf}}</ref>

Historians have debated which of these is the true origin; until the 19th century it was mistakenly thought that Norba Caesarina was the neighboring town of [[Alcántara]], while it was believed that the walled enclosure of Cáceres was Castra Caecilia.{{sfn| Salas Martín |1995|pp=423-429}}

Due to the documentary obscurity of the [[Visigothic Kingdom|Visigoth period]], it is not clear by what name Caceres was known when the [[Muslims]] arrived here. Documents from the 3rd and 4th Centuries indicate that the name of the area had been shortened in the colloquial form "''Castris''."{{sfn| Salas Martín |1995|pp=423-429}}

The [[Ravenna Cosmography]] fixes the use of "Castris" in the 4th century, however, the following mentions of the locality reappear in Muslim texts:<br/>
•	The [[Baghdadi Arabic|Baghdadi]] geographer [[Ibn Hawqal]] located a locality called "''ḥiṣn Qāṣras''" in this place. <br/>
•	A century and a half later, [[Muhammad al-Idrisi|Al-Idrisi]] from [[Ceuta]] reiterates this name. <br/>
•	A third source from the end of the Muslim period, written in the late 12th century or early 13th century by [[Yaqut al-Hamawi|Yaqut]], suggests that it was renamed "''Qāṣr As''."

In any case, sources from the time are scarce, since the Muslims never considered Cáceres as an important town beyond its use as a military fortification.{{sfn| Salas Martín |1995|pp=429-432}}

Both the transliteration of the Arabic toponym into the Latin alphabet and the creation of a name in the [[Romance languages]] were disparate. In some ancient writings and medieval documents various names appear, such as:{{sfn| Salas Martín |1995|pp=432-434}}<br/>
• "''Caceres''" in a [[Papal bull|bull]] of 1168 by [[Pope Alexander III]], awarding the territory to the [[diocese]] of Coria in the first [[Kingdom of León|Leonese conquest]];<br/>
• "''Castes''" in a [[Kingdom of Castile|Castilian]] document from 1171 by [[Alfonso VIII of Castile|King Alfonso VIII]], through which he recognized the [[Franciscans|Fratres]] of Cáceres as owners of the land;<br/>
• "''Carceres''" in the mandate of [[Alfonso IX of León]] dated in the year 1222 (however, the same king adopts the form "''Caceres''" in another document of the same year signed during the siege);<br/>
• «''Canceres''» written the document of 1229 through which Alfonso IX gave concessions to the [[Order of Santiago]].

==History==
Visitors can see remains from [[Prehistory|Prehistoric]], [[Middle Ages|medieval]] times, the [[Hispania|Roman occupation]], [[Moors|Moorish]] occupation and the [[Golden age of Jewish culture in Spain]]. Cáceres has four main areas to be explored: the historical quarter, the Jewish quarter, the modern center, and the outskirts.<ref name="Tourism web site">{{cite web|title=Cáceres regional tourism web site|url=http://www.turismocaceres.org/}}</ref>

===Prehistoric===
There have been settlements near Cáceres since prehistoric times. Evidence of this can be found in the caves of [[Maltravieso]] and [https://www.showcaves.com/english/es/caves/ElConejar.html El Conejar].<ref>{{cite web|title=Paper by Enrique CERRILLO CUENCA on the Conejar Cave|url=http://gredos.usal.es/jspui/bitstream/10366/70611/1/La_Cueva_de_El_Conejar_(Caceres)_avance_.pdf}}</ref> [[File:EntradaMaltravieso.JPG|thumb|left|Maltravieso Cave.]]The [[Cave of Maltravieso|Maltravieso Cave]] (discovered in 1956 by the academic and official chronicler of Cáceres Carlos Callejo) contains hundreds of paintings, including the world's oldest known [[cave painting]], a red hand stencil older than 67,000 years. This is 20,000 years before the known arrival of ''[[Homo sapiens]]'' to Europe and therefore is believed to have been made by [[Neanderthals]].<ref>{{cite journal |author1=D. L. Hoffmann |author2=C. D. Standish |author3=M. García-Diez |author4=P. B. Pettitt |author5=J. A. Milton |author6=J. Zilhão |author7=J. J. Alcolea-González |author8=P. Cantalejo-Duarte |author9=H. Collado |author10=R. de Balbín |author11=M. Lorblanchet |author12=J. Ramos-Muñoz |author13=G.-Ch. Weniger |author14=A. W. G. Pike |year=2018 |title=U-Th dating of carbonate crusts reveals Neandertal origin of Iberian cave art |journal=Science |volume=359 |issue=6378 |pages=912–915 |doi=10.1126/science.aap7778|pmid=29472483 |bibcode=2018Sci...359..912H |doi-access=free |hdl=10498/21578 |hdl-access=free }}</ref> These paintings date to several of the [[Upper Paleolithic]] periods.

In the nearby [https://www.showcaves.com/english/es/caves/ElConejar.html El Conejar] cave, ceramics and lithic utensils have been found that date the occupation of the cave to the Ancient [[Neolithic]] (VI-V millennium BC); the possibility that the cave was occupied during the [[Epipalaeolithic|Epipaleolithic]] period should not be ruled out. Location of trepanned skulls and decorated ceramics suggest that the Maltravieso cave was also occupied during the [[Bronze Age]].<ref>{{cite web|access-date=2 June 2011 |archive-date=31 August 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130831151902/http://maltravieso.rupestre.org/ |title=Web de Maltravieso |url=http://maltravieso.rupestre.org/}}<!-- auto-translated from Spanish by Module:CS1 translator --></ref><ref>[http://www.uned.es/dpto-pha/extremadura/maltravieso/maltravieso.htm Maltravieso] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20051113102429/http://www.uned.es/dpto-pha/extremadura/maltravieso/maltravieso.htm}} ''uned.es''</ref>

===Roman rule===
[[File:Cáceres - Estatua de Ceres en el Foro de los Balbos.jpg|thumb|upright=1.25| The Androgynous Genius, a Roman statue located in the Balbos Forum in Cáceres]]

The city was founded by the [[Ancient Rome|Romans]] in 25 [[Common Era|BCE]]. Cáceres as a city was founded as ''Castra Caecilia'' by [[Quintus Caecilius Metellus Pius]] and started to gain importance as a strategic city under Roman occupation. Remains found in the city suggest that it was a thriving center as early as 25 BCE. Some remains of the first city walls built by the Romans in the 3rd and 4th centuries still exist, including one gateway, the ''Arco de Cristo''.

During the 1st century BCE the Romans settled in camps (''Castra Cecilia'' and ''Castra Servilia'') permanently around the hill where the ''Norba Caesarina'' colony would be located next to the important communications route that would later be known as ''Vía de la Plata''.

The old municipality of Aldea Moret, 2&nbsp;km to the southwest, is currently a neighborhood of the same name integrated into the city, around which two Roman archaeological sites can be seen: Cuarto Roble and El Junquillo. The signposted Vía de la Plata can be traveled south of the city. An excavated section in Valdesalor, where the road crosses the Salor River through a recently restored medieval bridge, occupies the place of an ancient Roman bridge, now lost.

After the fall of the [[Western Roman Empire]], the city was occupied by the [[Visigoths]], until the [[Arab]]s conquered Cáceres in the 8th century. The city spent the next few centuries mostly under Arab rule, although power alternated several times between Moors and Christians. During this time, the Arabs rebuilt the city, including a wall, palaces, and various towers, including the Torre de Bujaco. Cáceres was reconquered by the Christians in the 13th century (1229).

During this period the city had an important [[Jew]]ish quarter: in the 15th century when the total population was 2,000, nearly 140 Jewish families lived in Cáceres. The Jewish population was expelled by [[Isabella I of Castile|Queen Isabel I (Isabella I) of Castile]] and [[Ferdinand II of Aragon|Fernando II (Ferdinand II) of Aragon]] in 1492, but many remains of the Jewish presence of the period can still be seen today in the Barrio San Antonio.

===Middle Ages===
[[File:Cáceres - Monasterio de San Francisco el Real 30.jpg|thumb|upright=1.25|Monastery of San Francisco el Real, today integrated into the urban area but originally built outside the town in the 15th century.]]
Around the 5th century, the Visigoths devastated the Roman settlement, and until the 8th-9th century the city was not heard of again.
During the first centuries of the "[[Reconquista]]" (Reconquest), it was the Muslims, from [[North Africa]], who took advantage of the strategic place on which the primitive Roman colony was based as a military base to confront the Christian kingdoms of the north. Thus, in the year 1147 [[Abd al-Mu'min|Abd al-Mumin]] refounded the city on the Hispano-Roman and Visigoth remains. The current name of ''Vía de la Plata'' comes from Arabic, the name of the Roman road that linked [[Astorga, Spain|Astorga]] with [[Mérida, Spain|Mérida]] (from the Arabic "''balata''" (road), from which the word "silver" was derived).<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20120104074410/http://celtiberia.net/articulo.asp?id=877 Vía de la Plata: etimología] ''celtiberia.net''</ref>

The Christian Reconquest of Cáceres occurred in 1229, the result of a long process that from the second half of the 12th century to the beginning of the 13th century. During this period, which began in 1142 with the conquest of Coria, the [[Tagus|Tagus River]] marked an unstable border between Christians to the north and Muslims to the south. The [[kingdom of Castile]] partly ignored the possibilities of conquering this area; attempts to incorporate Cáceres came from the [[kingdom of Portugal]] and the [[kingdom of León]], which both wanted to expand their width in their southern expansions. The Portuguese [[Gerald the Fearless|Geraldo Sempavor]] conquered Cáceres in the mid-12th century in a campaign that began in 1165 and reached the entire center of present-day Extremadura, but an alliance between [[Ferdinand II of León]] and the [[Almohad Caliphate|Almohads]] gave the Leonese control of the town in 1170.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=de la Montaña Conchiña |first1=Juan Luis |last2=Clemente Ramos |first2=Julián |title="La Extremadura cristiana (1142-1230): ocupación del espacio y transformaciones socioeconómicas" |journal=Historia, Instituciones, Documentos (21) |date=1994 |volume=21 |issn=0210-7716 |pages=83–124}}</ref>

The [[Almohad Caliphate|Almohads]] carried out an expedition in 1174 in which they managed to regain control of Cáceres. Except for an attempted siege in 1183, the Leonese did not approach the Muslim town again until the 13th century. After the [[battle of Las Navas de Tolosa]] in 1212, the conquest of Alcántara took place in 1213, after which the Christians besieged Cáceres in 1218, 1222, 1223 and 1225, producing the definitive Reconquest on 23 April 1229. Although the conquest was led by Alfonso IX of León, becoming part of the Kingdom of León, the death of Alfonso IX in 1230 led to Cáceres becoming part of the [[Kingdom of Castile|Crown of Castile and León]].{{sfn|de la Montaña Conchiña|Clemente Ramos|1994|pp=83-124}}

[[File:Hospital de los Caballeros, Cáceres edited.JPG|thumb|upright=1.25| Hospital of the Knights, in the old town of Cáceres]]

The privileges of the reconquered town were granted by Alfonso IX and configured Cáceres as a royal town directly dependent on the Leonese Crown with no local government other than its own council. Through this jurisdiction, the Crown reserved a notable portion of land between those of the Order of Santiago and those of the [[Order of Alcántara]].<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Monterde García |first1=Juan Carlos |title="El sentido de la honra en los Fueros de Cáceres y Plasencia" |journal=Revista de Estudios Extremeños |date=2002 |volume=58 |issue=2 |issn=0210-2854 |pages=692–694}}</ref>

Cáceres flourished during the [[Reconquista]] and the [[Discovery of the Americas]], as influential Spanish families and nobles built homes and small palaces there, and many members of families from Extremadura participated in [[History of the Americas|voyages to the Americas]] where they made their fortunes.

In the 15th century, the city suffered from internal disputes among the nobility. The [[Catholic Monarchs of Spain|Catholic Monarchs]] issued several ordinances and provisions to try to pacify the local nobles; The most notable was issued by Isabel I (Isabella I) in 1477, during her stay in the town on the occasion of the [[War of the Castilian Succession]], whereby it was established that the twelve aldermen of the council would become perpetual. The prohibition of stately properties in this jurisdiction prevented the formation of a strong nobility, leaving the town governed by a mesocracy of agricultural knights.{{sfn| Monterde García |2002|pp=692-694}}

{{wide image|CaceresPanoramicaPlazaMayor.jpg|700px|border=yes|The Plaza Mayor with the Bujaco tower, the Púlpitos tower, the Herb tower and the town hall.}}The Old Town (''Parte Antigua'') still has its ancient walls; this part of town is also well known for its multitude of [[stork]]s' nests. The walls contain a [[Middle Ages|medieval]] town setting with no outward signs of modernity, which is why many television shows and films have been shot there.<ref>Europa Press (2 December 2016).{{cite web|title=El rodaje de Juego de Tronos llega al centro de Cáceres (English: Game of Thrones Production Comes to Caceres)|date=2 December 2016|url=http://www.20minutos.es/noticia/2903701/0/rodaje-juego-tronos-llega-caceres/|publisher=[[20 minutos]]|access-date=11 January 2017}}</ref><ref>Ortiz, C. (19 October 2011){{cite web|title=Vuelve a Cáceres el rodaje de la serie de TVE sobre Isabel la Católica (English:The production of TVE Series about Queen Isabella Returns to Caceres)|date=19 October 2011|url=http://www.elperiodicoextremadura.com/noticias/caceres/vuelve-caceres-rodaje-serie-tve-isabel-catolica_613295.html|publisher=El Periodico|access-date=11 January 2017}}</ref>
[[File:Spain-Cáceres-P1170512 (25893544255).jpg|thumb|upright=1.25|Stork nests on rooftops are a common sight in Old Town Cáceres.]]

Cáceres was declared a [[World Heritage Site|World Heritage City]] by [[UNESCO]] in 1986<ref name="guard"/> because of the city's blend of [[Roman architecture|Roman]], [[Islamic architecture|Moorish]], Northern [[Gothic architecture|Gothic]] and Italian [[Renaissance architecture]]. Thirty towers from the [[Al-Andalus|Islamic period]] still stand in Cáceres, of which the Torre del Bujaco is the most famous.

===Modern Age===
[[File:Palacio Provincial Caceres.JPG|thumb|upright=1.25|Cáceres Provincial Palace]]
During the War of the Communities of Castile, Caceres joined the rebel ranks. On 15 April 1522, the monarch granted amnesty to the city, with the exception of the most committed community members.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Pérez |first1=Joseph |title=La revolución de las comunidades de Castilla (1520-1521) |date=1977 |publisher=Siglo XXI de España Editores |isbn=9788432302855}}</ref>

In 1653 the town of Cáceres, along with five other towns in the current autonomous community, acquired a joint vote in the [[Cortes Generales|Cortes of Castile]], giving rise to the purchase of the vote to the province of Extremadura, which in 1822 would be divided into those of Cáceres and Badajoz. Cáceres was represented in the Cortes of Madrid from 1660 to 1664 as part of said joint vote.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Martínez Díez |first1=Gonzalo |title="Extremadura: origen del nombre y formación de las dos provincias" |journal=Anuario de la Facultad de Derecho (2) |date=1983 |volume=59-119 |issn=0213-988X|pages=82–93}}</ref>

Until the 18th century, Cáceres was just another town among the many in Extremadura. In the [[Cadastre]] of Ensenada, carried out in Cáceres in 1753, it is indicated that only 1,698 families lived in the town itself. However, during the second half of the 18th century, the town began to grow, motivated by the arrival of both temporary and permanent foreign settlers, whose presence gave rise to the formation of a local [[bourgeoisie]] that until then did not exist due to the rural nature of the population. Starting in the mid-18th century, ranchers from the center of the peninsula, many of them from the Sierra de Cameros, began to settle in Extremadura, fleeing the crisis suffered by [[transhumance]]. Prominent textile merchants from Cameros and [[Catalonia]] also settled here.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Hernández Bermejo |first1=M.A. |last2=Santillana Pérez |first2=M. |title=Ámbitos familiares y espacios de vida cotidiana de los cacereños que vinieron de lejos (ss. XVIII-XIX) |journal=. Norba. Revista de Historia |date=2010 |volume=23 |issn=0213-375X|pages=107–120}}</ref>

===Evolution from town to city===
[[File:Caceres - Ayuntamiento.JPG|thumb|upright=1.25|Cáceres City hall, located on the Plaza Mayor]]
In 1790 a decisive event occurred in the history of Cáceres that made it evolve over time from a simple town to a city with regional importance: [[Charles IV of Spain|Charles IV]] established there the headquarters of the Royal Court of Extremadura, the highest judicial body of the region.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Granjel |first1=Mercedes |title=Médicos y cirujanos en Extremadura a finales del siglo XVIII |journal=Dynamis |date=2002 |volume=Acta hispanica ad medicinae scientiarumque historiam illustrandam 21 |pages=151–187 |issn=0211-9536 |url=https://www.ugr.es/~dynamis/completo22/PDF/dyna-6.pdf}}</ref> Numerous officials and professionals from very different places in Spain began to settle in the town, which increased the weight of the local bourgeoisie. At the beginning of the 19th century, merchant neighborhoods could already be distinguished in the Old Town extramuros (outside the walls), with their houses located in the Plaza Mayor and in several streets in its surroundings such as Barrionuevo, Empedrada, Parras, Pintores and Santo Domingo.{{sfn| Hernández Bermejo|Santillana Pérez|2010|pp=107-120}}

The judiciary was not the only public sector that provided urban character at that time: the defective division into provinces of the Crown of Castile caused many enlightened people to demand the division of Extremadura into two provinces, which benefited Cáceres by establishing itself as the provincial capital. In 1810, the French tried to create the prefecture of Cáceres during the [[Peninsular War]], with limits similar to those of the current province. Ten years later and during the [[Trienio Liberal|Liberal Triennium]] in 1822 the province of Cáceres was created with its capital in this town.{{sfn|Martínez Díez |1983|pp=94-104}}

===Civil war===
[[File:Cáceres - Plaza de América y Cruz de los Caídos.jpg|thumb|upright=1.25|Plaza of América and Monumental Cross to the Civil War Fallen in Cáceres]]
In the [[Spanish Civil War]], the military forces of Cáceres supported the [[coup d'état]] of 1936. When the [[Nationalist faction (Spanish Civil War)|rebel forces]] freed the [[Falangist Movement of Spain|Falangist]] Luna, he mobilized about a thousand sympathizers in the city and began to issue orders to occupy the principal surrounding towns, as well as the capture of the main strategic points such as the border points with Portugal, ports, and bridges. The repression by the [[Francoist Spain|Francoists]] began immediately, with the assassination of the director of Union and Labor, Pedro Montero Rubio, and the mayor of Cáceres Antonio Canales González, among others, a total of more than 600 people shot, about 220 during Christmas 1937. The constitutional governor and mayor were imprisoned and replaced by soldiers; the first, Ignacio Mateos Guija, was shot dead by Falangists and four relatives were thrown into the Tagus River, and the business run by his father was illegally confiscated.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Juliá Díaz |first1=Santos |title=Víctimas de la guerra civil |date=1999 |publisher=Temas de Hoy |isbn=84-7880-983-X |page=90}}</ref>

The uprising in Cáceres facilitated [[Francisco Franco|General Francisco Franco]]'s advance along the roads of Mérida and [[Badajoz]]. On 26 August 1936, General Franco arrived in Cáceres, where he established his headquarters before beginning the advance on Madrid. There he received his wife [[Carmen Polo|Carmen]] and his [[Carmen Franco, 1st Duchess of Franco|daughter]], whom he had not seen since the day of the [[Coup d'état|military coup d'état]]. Between 8 and 10 October 1936, and on the occasion of Franco's request for military aid to [[Adolf Hitler|Hitler]], The first [[German tanks in World War II|Panzer I model battle tanks]] arrived at the Arguijuelas de Abajo and Arriba castles, which had arrived in [[Seville]] by boat. For several months, a training academy for armored vehicle drivers was established in the castles, directed by the German colonel [[Wilhelm Ritter von Thoma|Wilhelm von Thoma]]. Later the training academy was moved to Cubas de la Sagra, in the [[Community of Madrid|province of Madrid]] and its military equipment took part in combat near the Madrid fronts. The Cáceres airfield also had important air movements, from which the aircraft that attacked the [[Second Spanish Republic|Republican forces]] and the [[Condor Legion]] departed.<ref>{{cite web |title=La base alemana de carros de combate en las Arguijuelas, Cáceres (1936-1937) |url=http://www.chde.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1617:la-base-alemana-de-carros-de-combate-en-las-arguijuelas-caceres-1936-1937&catid=67:2008&Itemid=89 |publisher=Wayback Machine. chde.org |access-date=10 March 2012}}</ref>

One of the few reactions of the Republican forces was the bombing of the city on 23 July 1937. That day five [[Soviet Union|Soviet]] twin-engine [[Tupolev '102'|Tupolev aircraft]] under the command of Lieutenant Colonel Jaume Mata Romeu, of the Air Force of the Spanish Republic, which had taken off from the Los Llanos de Albacete airfield, dropped 18 bombs, which affected various buildings (such as the Mayorazgo Palace), the food market, Santa María, the back of the [[Civil Guard (Spain)|Civil Guard]] barracks, the town hall, and Nido and Sancti Espíritu streets, causing 35 deaths and numerous injuries.<ref>{{cite web |title=70 aniversario del Bombardeo de Cáceres 1937-2007 |url=http://bombardeocaceres.blogspot.com/}}</ref>

==Historic quarter==
{{main|Old Town of Cáceres}}
The walls contain a [[Middle Ages|medieval]] town setting with no outward signs of modernity, which is why many television shows and films have been shot there, including scenes for '''''[https://www.spainenglish.com/2021/04/30/caceres-game-of-thrones-extremadura/ '''''Game of Thrones''''' ]''''' and the Spanish series '''''Isabel'''''.<ref>Europa Press (2 December 2016).{{cite web|title=El rodaje de Juego de Tronos llega al centro de Cáceres (English: Game of Thrones Production Comes to Caceres)|url=http://www.20minutos.es/noticia/2903701/0/rodaje-juego-tronos-llega-caceres/|publisher=[[20 minutos]]|access-date=11 January 2017}}</ref><ref>Ortiz, C. (19 October 2011){{cite web|title=Vuelve a Cáceres el rodaje de la serie de TVE sobre Isabel la Católica (English:The production of TVE Series about Queen Isabella Returns to Caceres)|url=http://www.elperiodicoextremadura.com/noticias/caceres/vuelve-caceres-rodaje-serie-tve-isabel-catolica_613295.html|publisher=El Periodico|access-date=11 January 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=, Cáceres in 'Game of Thrones' – where all the action happened |url=https://www.spainenglish.com/2021/04/30/caceres-game-of-thrones-extremadura/ |website=Spain in English |publisher=Maravilla Pictures Ltd, a UK registered company |access-date=15 November 2024}}</ref>
[[File:Cáceres - Palacio Episcopal.jpg|thumb|Archbishop's Palace.]]
[[File:Cáceres - Palacio de Mayoralgo - Coat of arms.jpg|thumb|Coat of arms on the façade of Mayoralgo Palace.]]
[[File:Palacio de Carvajal.jpg|thumb|Carvajal Palace]]
The "Monumental City of Cáceres" was declared by the Council of Europe as the Third Monumental Complex of Europe in 1968 (after Prague and Tallinn) and World Heritage by Unesco in 1986. Cáceres also has other awards: Pomme d'Or to "Tourism Merit", awarded by the International Federation of Tourism Journalists and Writers in 1996; Les Etoiles d'Or du Jumelage, awarded by the European Commission in 1999; The Archival prize awarded to him by the Association for the Recovery of Historical Centers in 2004 and the Citizens 2008 Award granted by the Association of Radio and Digital Television Entities, with the collaboration of the Citizen Audiovisual Council for the support that the citizenship provided to The candidacy for the European Capital of Culture of 2016. Cáceres is also a member of the Roads Networks of Sefarad, of the Vía de la Plata, being chosen by the Autonomous Community as Cultural Capital of Extremadura Enclave 92, and together with the solidarity effort of The administrations, private companies, official entities and private citizens, aspired between 2003 and 2010 to be European Capital of Culture in the year 2016.

==Main sights==
{{main|Old Town of Cáceres}}

===Cathedrals, churches, convents and monasteries===
* Convento de San Pablo (15th century)
* Convento de Santa Clara
* Convento Jerónimas
* Convent de la Compañía de Jesus, in Baroque style, today used for art exhibitions
* Iglesia de Santa María, cathedral built in the 13th century, in [[Gothic architecture|Gothic style]]
* Iglesia de San Mateo, a 15th-century church built on the site of a former mosque
* Iglesia de San Francisco Javier (18th century), in [[Baroque architecture|Baroque style]]
* Iglesia de San Juan, large majestic church built between the 13th and 15th century
* Iglesia de Santo Domingo
* Monasterio de Santa María de Jesús
* Parroquia de San Blas
* Parroquia de Nuestra Señora del Rosario de Fátima
* Parroquia Sagrada Familia
* Parroquia de San José (Cáceres)
* Parroquia San Juan Macías
* Ermita (Hermitage) de las Candelas
* Ermita (Hermitage) del Calvario
* Ermita (Hermitage) de la Paz
* Ermita de San Antonio
* Ermita del Vaquero
* Ermita del Cristo del Amparo
* Ermita de San Marcos el Nuevo (San Marquino)
* Ermita de San Ildefonso
* Santuario de Nuestra Señora la Virgen de la Montaña

[[File:Caceres palacio de los Golfines de Abajo.jpg|thumb|upright=1.25|Queen Isabella I of Castile and King Fernando I soujourned in the Lower Golfines Palace.]]
[[File:Cáceres-Iglesia San Mateo-(DavidDaguerro).jpg|thumb|San Mateo Church]]
[[File:Palacio de Moctezuma.jpg|thumb|Toledo-Moctezuma Palace]]
[[File:Cáceres - Palacio de las Veletas (Museo de Cáceres) 1.jpg|thumb|The Veletas Palace]]
[[File:Caceres-Aljibe-DavidDaguerro.jpg|thumb|Aljibe, a cistern, built by the Arabs, to store potable water in the Veletas Palace.]]

===Palaces and Stately Houses===
The following palaces and noble houses are located in the historic center:<ref>{{cite web |title=Hoteles Caceres |url=http://www.hotelescaceres.org.es/Conjunto-Monumental-caceres.php |website=HotelesCaceres.org |publisher=Conjunto monumental de Cáceres Archivado |access-date=6 August 2013}}</ref>
* Palacio Episcopal Palace (Palacio Episcopal)
* Lower Golfines Palace (Palacio de los Golfines de Abajo) - Queen [[Isabella I of Castile]] and King [[Ferdinand II of Aragon|Fernando I]] soujourned here.
* Carvajal Palace (Palacio Carvajal) (15th century) - Now seat of the Patronage Office for Tourism and Handicraft of the province.
* Palace of the Storks (Palacio de las Ciguenas)
* Veletas Palace (Palacio de las Veletas) is part of the Cáceres Museum complex.
* House of the Sun (Casa del Sol)
* Upper Golfines Palace (Placio de los Golfines de Arriba)
* [[:es:Palacio de Toledo-Moctezuma|Toledo-Moctezuma Palace]] (Palacio de Toledo-Moctezuma) - The palace dates to the 15th century with changes in the 16th Century, after the marriage of Mariana de Carvajal y Toledo with Juan de Toledo Moctezuma, who was a descendant of Juan Cano de Saavedra and Isabel de Moctezuma, daughter of the Aztec emperor Moctezuma II Xocoyotzin.
* Palace of the Commander of Alcuéscar (Palacio del Comendador de Alcuéscar)
* Isla Palace (Palacio de la Isla)
* Francisco de Godoy Palace(Palacio de Francisco de Godoy)
* Generala Palace (Palacio de la Generala)
* House of Ovando (Casa de los Ovando)
* House of Becerra (Casa de los Becerra)
* House of Cáceres Ovando (Casa de los Cáceres Ovando)
* House of Sánchez Paredes (Casa de los Sánchez Paredes)
* House of Paredes Saavedra(Casa de los Paredes Saavedra)
* House of Lorenzo de Ulloa (Casa de Lorenzo de Ulloa)
* House of Saavedra (Casa de los Saavedra)
* House of Aldana (Casa de Aldana)
* House of Ovando Perero (Casa de los Ovando Perero)
* House of the Monkey(Casa del Mono)
* House of Moragas (Casa de Moragas)
* House of Ribera (Casa de los Ribera)
* House of Caballos (Casa de los Caballos)
* House of Pereros (Casa de los Pereros)
* Palace-Fortress of Torreorgaz (Palacio-Fortaleza de los Torreorgaz) - today a Parador hotel.

===Wall===
[[File:Caceres torre de Bujaco ermita de la Paz.jpg|thumb|Torre de
Bujaco with the La Paz Hermitage.]]
[[File:Cáceres, Cáceres, Spain - panoramio (3).jpg|thumb|The Arco de Estrella (Star Arch) is the main entrance gate, dating to the 15th Century, to the walled medieval city of Cáceres.]]
* Torre de Bujaco (12th century)
* Arco de la Estrella (18th century)
* Torre de Sande (14th-15th centuries)

===Museums===
* Cáceres Museum - ALJIBE - housed in La Casa de las Veletas y la Casa de los Caballos in the historical quarter.
* La Casa-Museo Árabe, between the Plaza San Jorge and the Arco del Cristo. Arab culture, art and remains.
* Museo Concatedral de Cáceres, in the Plaza Santa Maria. Religious art.
* Museo Piedrilla - Guayasamín

===Castles===
Several castles are located in the municipality of Cáceres:<ref>[http://www.castillosnet.org/programs/castillosnet.php?tip=lis&dat=caceres/lista&ord=locasc&pro=10 Castles in the province of Cáceres ordered by locality] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110828070722/http://www.castillosnet.org/programs/castillosnet.php?tip=lis&dat=caceres%2Flista&ord=locasc&pro=10}} ''castillosnet.org''</ref>
[[File:CC-Castillo de las Seguras 01.jpg|thumb|upright=1.75|Castle palace of las Seguras]]
* '''Arguijuelas de Abajo Castle''', located south of the city on N-630, was built in the 15th and 16th Centuries and is privately owned. It is used for hospitality activities;<ref>hoy.es [http://www.hoy.es/20090802/caceres/arguijuelas-abajo-acoge-todo-20090802.html Arguijuelas de Abajo hosts all types of social events] consulted on 22 March 2010</ref>
* '''Arguijuelas de Arriba Castle''', located next to Arguijuelas de Abajo on the same road, s from the 15th century and is also privately owned;
* '''Salor Castle''', on N-630 next to Valdesalor;
* '''Fortress of Santiago de Bencáliz or Santiago de Vencáliz''', on N-630 next to the town of [[Casas de Don Antonio]], dates from the 15th Century and is privately owned. The property on which it is located is used as the headquarters of the Casas de Don Antonio pilgrimage;<ref name="casasantonioromeria">[https://web.archive.org/web/20120625173128/http://www.casasdedonantonio.es/index.php/mod.pags/mem.detalle/idpag.14/idmenu.122/chk.2f954a9b61afa38e00d9de531055a040.html Holiday Calendar] ''Town Hall of Casas de Don Antonio''</ref>
* '''Carretona Fortress''', on the Carretona estate in EX-100, was built in 1469 and is currently used as a farm.
* '''Las Seguras Castle Palace,''' in EX-100 near the Salor River, is a privately owned 14th Century palace.
* '''Mogollones Castle''', in front of the Las Seguras castle, was built in the 14th Century and was destroyed in the 17th Century. It is currently a ruin.
* '''Mayoralguillo Tower''', next to the Las Seguras castle, was built in the 13th Century.
* '''Castillo de Castellanos''', near the provincial border with [[Cordobilla de Lácara]], was built around 1477 as part of the manor of Fernán Gutiérrez de Valverde,<ref>Navareño Mateos, Antonio; in ''"Residential architecture in the pastures of the land of Cáceres. Castles, palaces and country houses"'' (p. 89, Ed. Cultural Institution ''El Brocense'', 1999).</ref> and is currently in a state of progressive ruin. Although it is private property, it is not used in any way and access is free.

==Tourism==
The city has more than 3,500 hotel beds and, with 660&nbsp;668 visitors registered by the municipal tourist centers during 2009, it became the first tourist center in the region in number of visitors.<ref>[http://www.ayto-caceres.es/ayuntamiento/noticias/caceres-aumenta-sus-visitantes-y-sus-cen Cáceres increases its visitors and its tourist centers] ''News from the Cáceres City Council'', 19 January 2010</ref> In 1996 Cáceres received the ''Pomme d'Or'' tourism award.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.fijet.net/fijet_golden_appel_dyn.php?langue=en |title=Golden Apple Award | year=2015 |accessdate=5 December 2015 |language=English}}</ref>

==Nature reserves and rural tourism==
* '''[[Monfragüe National Park]]''': It encompasses {{convert|85|km2|0|abbr=on}} or 17,852 hectares. The park contains one of the largest areas of Mediterranean forest and scrub in Spain with over 1,400 different species of trees. A favorite with birdwatchers, the park has the world's largest colony of Black Vulture and Spanish Imperial Eagle.
* '''[[Los Barruecos]]''' Natural Monument, {{convert|14|km|0|abbr=off}} away from the city, in the locality of [[Malpartida de Cáceres]]. It has massive granite boulders with the only colony of White Stork nesting on them. There is also a medieval reservoir and a mill for wool washing. The building complex has been restores and houses a surprising collection of art by German artist Wolf Vostell, who was an important member of the [[fluxus]] movement. Spring brings an explosion of colour with the blossom of Spanish White Broom all pervasive in the area.
*'''The Cáceres and Trujillo Plains''' are protected under the ZEPA (Spanish for [[Special Protection Area]] for birds or SPA) protection figure.

==Festivals==
[[File:CristoCalvarioCC.jpg|thumb|upright=1.00|Christ of Calvary paraded through the Gran Vía of Cáceres.]]
* '''The Festival of the Martyrs''' (''La Fiesta de los mártires'') is held is held the Sunday closest to 20 January in the hermitage of the Martyrs.<ref>{{cite web |title=Festival of the Martyrs |url=http://www.caceresjoven.com/paginas/turismo/fiestas/fiestas.asp |website=Caceres Joven.Com}}</ref>
* '''''Carnival'', The Festival of the Candles''' (''La Fiesta de las Candelas'') and ''Fiesta de San Blas'' are held are held from 1 to 3 February.<ref>{{cite web |title=Festival of the Candelas |url=http://www.caceresjoven.com/paginas/turismo/fiestas/fiestas1.asp |website=Caceres Joven.Com}}</ref>
* '''The Easter Festival''' (''[[Holy Week in Spain|Semana Santa]]'') is held during the week before Easter Sunday. Processions wind through the narrow streets in the historical center.<ref>{{cite web |title=Web de Semana Santa de Caceres |url=http://www.semanasantadecaceres.org/ | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081025075203/http://www.semanasantadecaceres.org/ | archive-date=2008-10-25}}</ref>
* '''The ''San Jorge'' Festival''', held on 22–23 April, involves a dragon being burnt in a [[bonfire]] in the town square (''La Plaza Mayor''), accompanied by a [[fireworks]] display.<ref>{{cite web |title=San Jorge (Fiesta local) |url=http://www.ayto-caceres.es/ciudadania/destacados/san-jorge-fiesta-local |website=Ayuntamiento de Caceres |publisher=Caceres Municipal Government |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080502164232/http://www.ayto-caceres.es/ciudadania/destacados/san-jorge-fiesta-local |archive-date=2008-05-02}}</ref>
* '''May Fair,''' founded by Alfonso IX of León, is celebrated between 28 and 30 May.<ref>{{cite web |title=Ferias de Mayo |url=http://www.caceresjoven.com/paginas/turismo/fiestas/fiestas4.asp |website=Caceres Joven}}</ref>

===Music festivals===
Cáceres hosts several music festivals at different times of the year. The most crowded are the [[WOMAD]], a [[world music]] festival held in the month of May, and the [[SonoraCC]], dedicated to [[Pop music|pop]], [[Rock music|rock]]  and [[Independent music|indie]] national.<ref>{{Cite web
 |url= http://www.elperiodicoextremadura.com/noticias/caceres/caceres-ciudad-escucharla_986841.html
 |title= Cáceres, a city to listen to
 |accessdate=28 December 2016
|author= J. Ignacio Martínez
 |date=26 December 2016
|work= [[El Periódico Extremadura]]
}}</ref>

* '''World of Music, Arts and Dance ([[WOMAD]])''' music festival is held at the beginning of May.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20120720045851/http://www.granteatrocc.com/womad/2010/index.php Un total de 31 artistas de 4 continentes participarán en la XIX Edición de WOMAD Cáceres]</ref> WOMAD is organized by the global organization WOMAD and created by [[Peter Gabriel]] in 1982. The one held in Cáceres is the first of the two, in Cáceres and [[Canary Islands]], held during the year in Spain. The Caceres WOMAD is unique among the 9 held around the world for taking place in the interior of a monumental city;
[[File:Panoramica Womad 2009.jpg|thumb|upright=2.50|The Plaza Mayor of Cáceres during the celebration of [[WOMAD]] 2009]]
* '''Cáceres Pop-Art''', in September: festival that brings together different artistic manifestations referring to pop culture, such as music, art, photography, cinema, literature, comics or fashion. Exhibitions are organized, film series take place in the city at the [[Filmoteca de Extremadura]] and a series of free concerts, giving priority to emerging groups and artists who stand out in national and international independent music. It culminates with the presentation of the Pop Eye awards to musicians and creators linked to non-commercial circuits;
* '''Aldea de la Amex''', in September, is a festival organized by the Association of Musicians of Extremadura and held in the neighborhood of [[Aldea Moret]] dedicated to the integration of gypsy culture through music and art;
* '''Cáceres Irish Fleadh''', cultural event that occurs between October and November, is a festival of traditional Irish and Celtic music in general, with performances in pubs and theaters in the city.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://thesession.org/discussions/8083|title=A Fleadh in Caceres (Spain)|work=thesession.org|access-date=13 September 2017|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.irishfleadhcaceres.com/|title=Festival Irish Fleadh de Cáceres|access-date=13 September 2017|archive-date=14 November 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181114173205/http://www.irishfleadhcaceres.com/|url-status=dead}}</ref> The idea comes from [[Fleadh Cheoil]] which is an Irish music event that happens every August in [[Ireland]].
* '''Festival del Oeste''', in the first week of July, with national and international hard rock, heavy metal and punk-rock groups;
* '''Ciudad de Cáceres International Black Music Festival''', in July, is a festival that unites different styles such as [[soul music|soul]], [[funky]], [[blues]], disco and others;
* '''Ibero-American Early Music Festival''', in September,<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20080404014330/http://www.festivaldemusicaantiguadecaceres.com/ Ibero-American Early Music Festival website]</ref> with concerts and ancient music courses held in different locations and temples in the monumental city;
* '''International Folk Festival of the Peoples of the World''', in July: with performances, parades and workshops;
* '''Musical autumn'''.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20080514171855/http://www.granteatrocc.com/otono.asp Musical autumn] ''Gran Teatro de Cáceres''</ref>
[[File:Gran Teatro Cáceres.JPG|thumbnail|Night view of the Gran Teatro]]

===Film and theater festivals===
* '''The Cáceres Classical Theater Festival,''' the most important theater festival in the city, is held in June, opening the season of classical theater festivals in Spain.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20080514212144/http://www.granteatrocc.com/tclasico/07/prev.html XVIII Classical Theater Festival of Cáceres] ''Gran Teatro de Cáceres''</ref><ref name="men">{{cite web|url=https://menorcaaldia.com/2016/03/14/olivia-delcan-recibe-el-premio-san-pancracio-como-actriz-revelacion-por-isla-bonita/ |title= Olivia Delcán recibe el premio San Pancracio como actriz revelación por 'Isla bonita'|work=menorcaaldia.com|date=14 March 2016 }}</ref>

Several film festivals are held in Cáceres throughout the year, concentrated in the months of March and November.
* In March the '''Solidarity Festival of Spanish Cinema of Cáceres'''<ref>[http://festivalcinecaceres.es/ Solidario Festival of Spanish Cinema of Cáceres]</ref> and the '''Envideo Cáceres Festival''' are held.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20120720040413/http://www.granteatrocc.com/envideo/envideo08/index.html Envideo] ''Gran Teatro de Cáceres''</ref>
* In November the '''Extremadura Gay and Lesbian Film Festival''' (Cáceres is one of its venues along with [[Mérida (Spain)|Mérida]] and [[Badajoz]]) and the EXTREMA´doc International Documentary Film Festival and Development Cooperation.<ref>[http://www.extremadoc.com extremadoc.com]</ref>
* In August, a '''Summer Film Series''' is held at the Foro de los Balbos, organized by the Filmoteca de Extremadura. The sessions are held on [[weekend]]s, and between four and six films are screened each year. Attendance is free until capacity is reached.<ref>{{cite web
 |url= http://www.elperiodicoextremadura.com/noticias/caceres/vuelta-cine-verano-foro-balbos-film-terror-christine_955232.html
 |title= Summer cinema returns to the Balbos Forum with the horror film 'Christine'
 |author= Editorial
 |work= [[El Periódico Extremadura]]
 |accessdate=14 August 2016
|date=13 August 2016}}</ref>

===Painting exhibitions===
* '''South Forum'''. '''Contemporary Ibero-American Art Fair''', in April:<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20080614015806/http://www.feval.com/lenya/feval/live/ferias/forosur/presentacionFS.html Presentation Foro Sur 2007] ''FEVAL''</ref> is held at the San Jorge exhibition center, in the heart of the Monumental City of Cáceres, although it also has artistic manifestations in the rest of the city. It tries to spread knowledge of contemporary art, promote the art market and promote collecting. Currently, it is classified as the second most important contemporary art fair in Spain after [[ARCO]].

===Historical reenactments===
* '''Medieval Market''', in November: it is interesting to visit this market that is located inside the walls, considered the second most important in Spain, where you can buy curious, classic or artisanal objects, typical products and local foods, with a historical setting for the entire Monumental City. It consists of the celebration of the cultures that coexisted in Cáceres.

==Climate==
The city of Cáceres is located in the [[province of Cáceres]], in the [[Extremadura]] region of western central Spain. The city has a [[Hot-summer Mediterranean climate]] ([[Köppen climate classification|Köppen]]: ''Csa'') which is tempered by its proximity to the Atlantic Ocean. In winter the average temperature does not exceed {{convert|14|°C|0|abbr=on}} maximum, reaching {{convert|8|°C|0|abbr=on}} minimum, with some frost. In summer the average maximum temperature is {{convert|34|°C|0|abbr=on}} and the average minimum is {{convert|19|°C|0|abbr=on}}. Rainfall is abundant in the months of October, November, March, April and May, but very intermittent.<ref>[http://www.protiempo.es/clima.php?id=SPXX0204 Clima en Cáceres] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100923122824/http://www.protiempo.es/clima.php?id=SPXX0204 |date=23 September 2010 }} ''protiempo.es''</ref>

{{Weather box
| location = Cáceres, 459 m asl (1991–2020, extremes since 1920)
| metric first = Y
| single line = Y
| Jan record high C = 21.2
| Feb record high C = 23.0
| Mar record high C = 26.8
| Apr record high C = 34.4
| May record high C = 36.6
| Jun record high C = 42.0
| Jul record high C = 44.0
| Aug record high C = 44.3
| Sep record high C = 42.6
| Oct record high C = 37.0
| Nov record high C = 27.2
| Dec record high C = 21.0
| year record high C = 
| Jan high C = 12.2
| Feb high C = 14.2
| Mar high C = 17.6
| Apr high C = 19.9
| May high C = 24.5
| Jun high C = 30.3
| Jul high C = 34.0
| Aug high C = 33.7
| Sep high C = 28.7
| Oct high C = 22.4
| Nov high C = 16.1
| Dec high C = 12.7
| year high C = 22.2
| Jan mean C = 8.1
| Feb mean C = 9.4
| Mar mean C = 12.3
| Apr mean C = 14.3
| May mean C = 18.3
| Jun mean C = 23.2
| Jul mean C = 26.4
| Aug mean C = 26.3
| Sep mean C = 22.3
| Oct mean C = 17.3
| Nov mean C = 11.8
| Dec mean C = 8.8
| year mean C = 16.6
| Jan low C = 4.0
| Feb low C = 4.6
| Mar low C = 6.9
| Apr low C = 8.7
| May low C = 12.0
| Jun low C = 16.1
| Jul low C = 18.9
| Aug low C = 19.0
| Sep low C = 15.9
| Oct low C = 12.1
| Nov low C = 7.6
| Dec low C = 4.9
| year low C = 10.9
| Jan record low C = -5.6
| Feb record low C = -5.6
| Mar record low C = -3.6
| Apr record low C = -1.4
| May record low C = 2.8
| Jun record low C = 5.4
| Jul record low C = 10.0
| Aug record low C = 9.0
| Sep record low C = 4.8
| Oct record low C = 2.4
| Nov record low C = -2.2
| Dec record low C = -5.4
| year record low C = 
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| Jan precipitation mm = 53.6
| Feb precipitation mm = 50.9
| Mar precipitation mm = 54.3
| Apr precipitation mm = 52.6
| May precipitation mm = 47.3
| Jun precipitation mm = 12.8
| Jul precipitation mm = 4.7
| Aug precipitation mm = 6.7
| Sep precipitation mm = 31.8
| Oct precipitation mm = 82.7
| Nov precipitation mm = 79.6
| Dec precipitation mm = 67.2
| year precipitation mm = 
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| Jan precipitation days = 7.2
| Feb precipitation days = 6.2
| Mar precipitation days = 6.7
| Apr precipitation days = 7.6
| May precipitation days = 6.4
| Jun precipitation days = 2.2
| Jul precipitation days = 0.6
| Aug precipitation days = 1.0
| Sep precipitation days = 3.7
| Oct precipitation days = 7.5
| Nov precipitation days = 7.9
| Dec precipitation days = 7.9
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| Mar sun = 232
| Apr sun = 260
| May sun = 310
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| Sep sun = 274
| Oct sun = 214
| Nov sun = 163
| Dec sun = 137
| year sun = 
| source 1 = Météo Climat<ref>{{cite web
 |url=http://meteo-climat-bzh.dyndns.org/listenormale-1991-2020-1-p62.php
 |title=Météo climat stats Moyennes 1991/2020 Espagne (page 1)
 |language=fr
 |accessdate = 14 June 2022}}
</ref>
| source = 
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{{Weather box
| location = Cáceres, 459 m asl (1982-2010)
| metric first = Y
| single line = Y
| Jan record high C = 21.2
| Feb record high C = 23.0
| Mar record high C = 26.8
| Apr record high C = 34.4
| May record high C = 36.6
| Jun record high C = 42.0
| Jul record high C = 44.0
| Aug record high C = 44.3
| Sep record high C = 42.6
| Oct record high C = 37.0
| Nov record high C = 27.2
| Dec record high C = 21.0
| year record high C = 
| Jan high C = 12.0
| Feb high C = 14.0
| Mar high C = 17.7
| Apr high C = 19.3
| May high C = 23.7
| Jun high C = 29.9
| Jul high C = 33.7
| Aug high C = 33.2
| Sep high C = 28.8
| Oct high C = 22.0
| Nov high C = 15.9
| Dec high C = 12.5
| year high C = 21.9
| Jan mean C = 7.8
| Feb mean C = 9.3
| Mar mean C = 12.2
| Apr mean C = 13.8
| May mean C = 17.6
| Jun mean C = 22.9
| Jul mean C = 26.2
| Aug mean C = 26.0
| Sep mean C = 22.4
| Oct mean C = 17.0
| Nov mean C = 11.7
| Dec mean C = 8.7
| year mean C = 16.3
| Jan low C = 3.7
| Feb low C = 4.7
| Mar low C = 6.7
| Apr low C = 8.3
| May low C = 11.5
| Jun low C = 16.0
| Jul low C = 18.8
| Aug low C = 18.7
| Sep low C = 16.0
| Oct low C = 11.9
| Nov low C = 7.5
| Dec low C = 4.9
| year low C = 10.7
| Jan record low C = -5.6
| Feb record low C = -5.6
| Mar record low C = -3.6
| Apr record low C = -1.4
| May record low C = 2.8
| Jun record low C = 5.4
| Jul record low C = 10.0
| Aug record low C = 11.0
| Sep record low C = 7.4
| Oct record low C = 2.4
| Nov record low C = -2.2
| Dec record low C = -4.6
| year record low C = 
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| May precipitation mm = 50
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| Dec precipitation mm = 77
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| Feb precipitation days = 6.5
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| May precipitation days = 6.5
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| Feb humidity    =73
| Mar humidity    =63
| Apr humidity    =60
| May humidity    =55
| Jun humidity    =44
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| Sep humidity    =49
| Oct humidity    =65
| Nov humidity    =76
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| source 1 = [[Agencia Estatal de Meteorología]]<ref>{{cite web
 |url=http://www.aemet.es/en/serviciosclimaticos/datosclimatologicos/valoresclimatologicos?l=3469A&k=ext
 |title= Standard Climate Values. Cáceres
 |access-date= 17 November 2011
|publisher=AEMet
|date=October 2014}}</ref>
| source 2 = [[Agencia Estatal de Meteorología]]<ref>{{cite web
 |url=http://www.aemet.es/en/serviciosclimaticos/datosclimatologicos/efemerides_extremos?w=0&k=ext&datos=det&l=3469A
 |title= Extreme Values. Cáceres
 |access-date= 12 June 2020
|publisher=AEMet}}</ref>
| source = 
}}

==Education==
[[File:Campus de Cáceres de la UEx.jpg|thumb|Cáceres Campus of the University of Extremadura]]The [[University of Extremadura]] (founded in 1973) has a campus in Cáceres.

==Transport==
The city is served by the [[Cáceres railway station]], which serves around 100,000 passengers annually. Also, across the street is the bus terminal, with multiple buses daily to other cities.

Cáceres is situated close to the [[Autovía A-66]] from [[Seville]] to [[Gijón]]. [[File:J29 133 Bf Cáceres, 9 599 047, 9 598 xxx.jpg|thumb|upright=1.25|Cáceres Train Station]]

==Neighbourhoods==
* Centre: 26,914 inhabitants.
* West (new): 15,726 inhabitants.
* South: 14,738 inhabitants.
* Mejostilla: 11,484 people.
* Aldea Moret: 6,756 inhabitants
* Old Town, 5,799 inhabitants.
* West: 4,591 inhabitants.
* North: 4,656 inhabitants.
* East: 2,646 inhabitants.
* Pedanías (Rincón de Ballesteros, Valdesalor, and Arroyo-Malpartida Station): 749 inhabitants.
* rest: 295 inhabitants.

==Cuisine==
[[File:Torta del Casar.jpg|thumb|right|[[Torta del Casar]] cheese]]
The small streets in the historical centre have many small shops selling typical products. The convents sell homemade sweets and pastries. Typical wines from Extremadura are affordable, full-bodied reds. Local liqueurs include cherry liqueur from the nearby Jerte valley, or other original liqueurs such as chestnut and blackberry. Other produce in the Province include sheep's cheese (Torta del Casar, is not made of goat's milk, but with milk from merino sheep), fig cake, chestnuts, hams and other pork products, lamb, olive oil, and paprika (pimentón de la Vera).

Salt-cured ham and red wine are produced locally and are officially recognized by the Spanish government. Both goat's and sheep's cheese are produced by traditional methods and renowned throughout the country. Cáceres is also famous for its stews, roast meats (especially pork, lamb and game), fried breadcrumbs (migas), trout, pastries and honey.

==Sports==
[[File:Multiusos Ciudad de Cáceres.JPG|thumb|right|Basketball fixture played at the [[Multiusos Ciudad de Cáceres]].]]
Among others notable sport teams, Cáceres is home to [[association football]] team [[CP Cacereño]] who currently play in the [[Tercera División]] and the professional basketball teams [[Cáceres Ciudad del Baloncesto|Cáceres Basket]], who play the [[LEB Oro|Liga LEB Oro]], and Club Baloncesto Al-Qazeres, who play the [[Liga Femenina de Baloncesto|Liga Femenina]]. And Rugby Union Extremadura CAR Cáceres playing DHB, 2nd National división.

==Sister towns==
* [[Santiago de Compostela]], Spain (since 1973)<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.hoy.es/v/20100915/caceres/hermanas-medio-mundo-20100915.html|title=Hermanas por medio mundo|date=15 September 2010|website=Hoy|language=es-ES|access-date=22 October 2019}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://hemeroteca.abc.es/nav/Navigate.exe/hemeroteca/madrid/abc/1973/10/30/046.html|title=ABC (Madrid) - 30/10/1973, p. 46 - ABC.es Hemeroteca|website=hemeroteca.abc.es|date=13 August 2019|access-date=22 October 2019}}</ref>
*[[La Roche-sur-Yon]], France (since 1982)<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.hoy.es/caceres/201501/31/visita-delegacion-roche-20150131001130-v.html|title=Visita de la delegación de La Roche Sur Yon|date=31 January 2015|website=Hoy|language=es-ES|access-date=22 October 2019}}</ref>
*[[Castelo Branco, Portugal|Castelo Branco]], Portugal
*[[Portalegre, Portugal|Portalegre]], Portugal (since 2006)<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.hoy.es/pg060521/prensa/noticias/Regional/200605/21/HOY-REG-107.html|title=Cáceres y Portalegre formalizaron su hermanamiento en el país luso|date=21 May 2006|website=Hoy|language=es-ES|access-date=22 October 2019}}</ref>
*[[Piano di Sorrento]], Italy (since 2008)<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.elperiodicoextremadura.com/noticias/caceres/caceres-consolida-hermanamiento-con-sorrento-buscando-gastronomia_414096.html|title=Cáceres consolida su hermanamiento con Sorrento buscando la gastronomía|website=El Periódico Extremadura|date=7 December 2008|language=es|access-date=22 October 2019}}</ref>
*[[Netanya]], Israel (since 2010)<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.20minutos.es/noticia/820266/0/|title=Cáceres se hermana con la ciudad israelí de Netanya para cooperar en cultura, economía y turismo|date=21 September 2010|website=20minutos.es - Últimas Noticias|language=es|access-date=22 October 2019}}</ref>
*[[Lumbini]], Nepal (since 2021)<ref>{{cite web |title=CÁCERES Y LUMBINI RUBRICAN SU HERMANAMIENTO EN UN 'DÍA HISTÓRICO' |date=8 April 2021 |url=https://www.ayto-caceres.es/noticias/caceres-y-lumbini-rubrican-su-hermanamiento-en-un-dia-historico/ |website=ayto-caceres.es |access-date=8 April 2021}}</ref>

==Notable people==
* [[José de Carvajal y Lancáster]] (1698–1754), statesman
* [[Juan Donoso Cortés]], marquis of Valdegamas (1809–1853), diplomat and theologian
* [[Belén Fernández Casero]] (born 1974), politician
* [[Carlos Floriano Corrales]] (born 1967), politician
* [[Alberto Ginés López]] (born 2002), professional rock climber
* [[María Guardiola]] (born 1978), politician
* [[Marta Lozano Molano]] (born 1985), composer and music scholar
* [[Elena Nevado]] (born 1967), politician
* [[Cayetano Polo]] (born 1973), politician
* [[María Telo]] (1915–2014), jurist and feminist
* [[Gaspar de Zúñiga y Avellaneda]] (1507–1571), Roman Catholic cardinal and bishop
* [[Joaquín Encabo]] (1740-1818)
Roman Catholic Bishop Agustino Recoleto of Cebu Philippines

==See also==
* [[List of municipalities in Cáceres]]

==References==
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==External links==
{{Wikivoyage|Caceres}}
{{EB1911 poster|Cáceres (city)}}
{{commons}}
* [http://www.ayto-caceres.es/ Cáceres City Council website] {{in lang|es}}
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20140714204453/http://www.go-2-nice-places.com/2014/07/caceres.html Cáceres sights] (No longer working)

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