Top 16 Castles around Caceres

It is located atop a hill in the Sierra de Montánchez, also known as the "balcony of Extremadura," at an altitude of approximately 700–900 meters above sea level. Founded on the site of an earlier Roman fortress, its main structure dates back to the Caliphate period of the 9th century (Almohad era). It preserves three underground cisterns built between the 11th and 13th centuries. Captured around 1156–1230, it passed to the Order of Santiago after being granted by Alfonso XI. Walls, a keep, and defensive enclosures were added. 17th century: A hermitage and an interior pond were added. In 1620, it served as a prison for Don Rodrigo Calderón.

The historic center of Cáceres, declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site, is one of the most impressive monumental sites in Spain. Strolling through its cobblestone streets is like stepping back in time to the Middle Ages, thanks to its excellent state of preservation and the absence of modern buildings that disrupt 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 cobblestone 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 was initially built on a Roman-era construction, of which recently, during the restoration, some Roman archaeological remains have been found. Stately mansion of a family that founded an important mayorazgo, the first in the province and one of the oldest in Spain, hence the name of the palace. The building presents various construction phases: the side façade and the patio are Gothic in style; Its main façade dates from the late 15th and early 16th centuries. It features two beautiful mullioned windows with a central marble mullion and the family coat of arms. Under the shield there is an inscription that says: “Be your Lord for us a tower of strength and our youth will be renewed like that of the eagle”, which refers to the coat of arms of this family, half eagle and half tower. The façade is renovated, as it was destroyed by a bomb that fell in the Plaza de Santa María during the Spanish Civil War, in 1937.

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.