Cáceres: top attractions & road trip guide
Cáceres is a walled city in Extremadura and a stop on the Vía de la Plata Camino de Santiago route, its old town ranked among the best-preserved medieval and Renaissance urban centers in Europe and listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Dozens of stone towers and noble palaces, built by families who profited from wars in the Reconquista and the Americas, line its narrow streets, and storks nest openly on many of them.
On a road trip through Extremadura, Cáceres makes a natural stop between Mérida and Salamanca or Portugal, with the old town's monumental core closed to cars and best explored on foot after parking nearby. The surrounding countryside is dehesa, open oak pastureland grazed by pigs and sheep, giving the approach roads a wide, sparsely populated character.
Top attractions
Plaza Mayor de Cáceres
The city's main square, framed on one side by the old walled town's ramparts and towers and lined on the others with cafe terraces.
Torre de Bujaco
A stout Moorish-era watchtower rising directly above the Plaza Mayor, one of the most recognizable landmarks of the walled city.
Co-Cathedral of Santa María
The old town's main Gothic church, with a carved cedar altarpiece, standing on the square where Spanish monarchs once swore allegiance to the city.
Palace of the Golfines de Abajo
A fortified Renaissance noble palace with a plateresque facade, built by one of the city's most powerful families.
Casa de las Veletas (Cáceres Museum)
A former noble house built over a well-preserved 12th-century Almohad cistern, now home to the city's archaeology and ethnography museum.
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