Palazuelo-Empalme

A Cáceres town whose written past was destroyed by Napoleon's troops, yet whose streets hold traces of prehistory, Rome, and the first recorded emigrant to the Americas.

A cathedral city in Extremadura whose medieval walls, twin cathedrals, and cluster of noble palaces make it one of the most substantial historic centres between Salamanca and Cáceres.

Encircled by Almohad walls on the left bank of the River Jerte, Galisteo stands as one of Extremadura's most complete walled towns, its three medieval gateways and mudéjar church still intact above the Vía de la Plata.

A Cáceres hill town where a Renaissance palace built by a friend of Emperor Charles V still stands above lanes of stone, oak woods, and cherry orchards.

A high medieval village in Cáceres where two mountain gorges meet, its Basque-roofed houses, Inquisition building, and old brothel all still standing on steep cobbled streets.

A walled medieval town on the Vía de la Plata in Cáceres, its castle, church and stone streets intact inside ancient walls — abandoned in 1964 when a reservoir swallowed the surrounding valley, and now carefully restored.

An ancient cathedral city in Cáceres province, its near-complete Roman walls still encircling a historic core of Gothic cathedral, ducal palace, and castle above the Alagón river.

A town in Cáceres whose vast porticoed plaza, late-Gothic churches, and Roman bridge on the Silver Route carry traces of prehistory, the Templars, and the founding of La Paz, Bolivia.

A granite hilltop city in Cáceres province whose castle, medieval walls, and Renaissance plaza were shaped by Moorish, military-order, and conquistador hands across more than a thousand years of layered history.