It is located to the west of Spain, in the north of the autonomous community of Extremadura. It takes up an area of 19,868 square kilometres. It borders Castile and Leon through the provinces of Salamanca and Avila in the north, and Castile-La Mancha by Toledo. Its capital is the city of Caceres, followed by Plasencia and Navalmoral de la Mata.

 

It is divided by the following regions:​

• ​Region of Caceres

• Region of Monfragüe

• Region of Trujillo

• Region of Brozas

• Region of Valencia de Alcantara

• Region of Logrosan

• Region of Navalmoral de la Mata

• Region of Plasencia

• Region of Hervas

• Region Jaraiz de la Vera

 

In addition there are the following natural areas sometimes popularly considered as regions that are not included in the above division: Valle del Ambroz, Golf Arañuelo, Jerte Valley, Hurdes, Villuercas, Los Ibores, La Jara Caceres, the Sierra de Gata, La Vera, Valle del Alagón and Trasierra - Lands Granadilla

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Environmental ridged landscapes, chaparral and scrub with mastic, myrtle and arbutus characterize the natural environment of Caceres. But what are the most abundant is the pastures, very typical in this region (from more than half million hectares that comprise the region) of oak, cork and farmlands.

 

Caceres has two protected natural areas: Los Llanos de Caceres-Sierra de Fuentes and the Sierra de San Pedro. A 55 Km. of Caceres are Torrejón el Rubio and Monfragüe National Park, the greatest exponent of the Mediterranean vegetation and wildlife, recently named Natural Biosphere Reserve. Inhabit protected species such as the imperial eagle, black stork, tawny vulture, Iberian lynx, etc.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

It has already been evidences that in prehistoric, Caceres was occupied by nomadic tribes. It has been found remains of arrowheads and cave paintings from the Upper Paleolithic. Neolithic remains have been found in the Cave ceramic Maltravieso, trails warriors from the Iron Age. Boars (bulls or wild boars), vetones, are some of the traces left in its wake that had inhabited Caceres.

From the Roman times we have preserved the remains of walls of the Roman colony Norba Caesarina, Arc River Gate Christ and the Goddess of Caceres. 

The city was founded by Cayo Norbano Flaco, military Roman, in the first century B.C., and being Lucio Cornelio Balbo employer. Later, the city was subjected to Leovigildo Visigoths in the sixth century A.D.

Caceres became an important defensive enclave under Muslim domination, especially in Almohad era. The wall is reconstructed with towers and the citadel, which today is the Plaza of San Mateo, and the vanes with an impressive cistern Lions King Alfonso IX in 1229 granted a charter to the city of Caceres so that terriotrios were stocked in exchange for lands and privileges.

Palaces and fortified houses were built in the squares around the churches of Santa Maria and San Mateo.

With Catholic Kings, many of these buildings lost their defensive nature, becoming symbols of prestige and power. The new American lands led to Fray Nicolas de Ovando, governor of the Indies, Francisco Pizarro, discoverer of Peru, Orellana that traveled the Amazon River and other personalities to enlarge the history of this region.

The seventeenth and eighteenth centuries were particularly hard by the plagues, epidemics and economic shortage caused by the war with Portugal and the expulsion of the Moors.

In 1790, the Royal Court of Extremadura brought with it the jurisdictional unity of the region, a dependent until then of Valladolid and Granada. In 1833, Caceres was named capital of Upper Extremadura and the Free University of Education, later to be renamed College of Humanities.

In 1881 King Alfonso XII visited the city to inaugurate the railway line that connected it with Valencia de Alcantara and a year later Caceres granted the title of City (then to property of the Crown)

 

The Council of Europe in 1968 awarded Caceres the title of THE THIRD MONUMENTAL whole of Europe ; and since 1986 it holds the appointment of WORLD HERITAGE CITY , awarded by UNESCO. Caceres also has other awards: POMME D'OR Tourist Merit awarded by the International Federation of Journalists and Writers of Tourism in 1996; LES ETOILES DU JUMELAGE d'Or , awarded by the European Commission in 1999 ; and the ARCHIVAL award from the Association for the Recovery of Historic Centers in 2004.

It is integrated in tourism networks as the group of WORLD HERITAGE CITIES OF SPAIN and Jewish Network " Sefarad " . The city was the CULTURAL CAPITAL OF EXTREMADURA in 1992.