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n is a Historic The "homogeneous grouping of urban or rural buildings that stand out for their historical, artistic, scientific, social or technical units constituting elements clearly identified by such as streets, squares, corners or neighborhoods. " Law 2 / 1999 of 29 March, Historical and Cultural Heritage
Extremadura. Section 6.1.b.

The low industrialization of our country, enables human action on the environment and the non-existent negative environmental contamination does not change the landscape. Thus, large areas of geography Caceres has been, since ancient times, natural haven for many animal species. The strategic location of the province of Cceres, crossed the Via de la Plata, proximity to Portugal and the respect for our heritage, has allowed the province of Caceres show everyone their wide and varied heritage history, beginning in prehistoric times (Maltravieso Cave, in Cceres, of cultural interest (in Later BIC), the Castaar de Ibor cave (Natural Monument), the Dolmens of Valencia de Alcntara (BIC), etc). In Roman times, remains found in Cceres in Guijo of Granadilla, on the spectacular Puente Alcantara Roman. The Visigoths had less rooted presence in the province and was in time of the Moslem and Reconquista later when construction activity starts in the province and give its best results for the High Middle Ages, Renaissance and Baroque.

An important aspect that should not be forgotten in the issue at hand is the terrain, conditions for the History of the province. Thus, the regions north and east of Cceres, located in mountainous areas have a high diversity of mountain landscapes. The architecture takes the most popular and varied role in these

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counties. Villages built with raw materials offered by the environment, stone, clay and wood, which have Instead, on many occasions, historic areas of great beauty, like those of Valverde de la Vera, Cabezuela del Valle, Robledillo de Gata or La Puebla de Guadalupe. Many of these homes have become quaint and cozy lodgings. Therefore, the artistic and architectural legacy of the High Extremadura is present in all counties and highlighted as the most representative examples of religious heritage, the Royal Monastery of Guadalupe, central most important Marian devotional Extremadura, Heritage, the Monastery of Yuste, in Vera, resting place of Emperor Charles V, European Heritage, the Convent of San Benito de Alcantara or the cathedrals of Plasencia and Coria. Both Cceres city as the two aforementioned monasteries devote a section at the end of this booklet.

Civil architecture has its finest in the city of Cceres, a World Heritage Site, as well as Trujillo and Plasencia. Many of Historic of the province are composed of beautiful examples of traditional architecture, therefore, we need to explain briefly the salient features of this architectural heritage in the different regions that we discussed in the booklet.

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not the traits that help define a province is its architecture, arising under a physical and geographical conditions, and influenced by their social and economic variables.

In our tour of the province of Caceres and following the local division of the same, we turn to discuss the salient features of the architecture, to be present in many of the sets historical we'll see in this brochure. The architecture of Sierra de Gata is ascribed to two types of mountain houses: the stone and half-timbered wood, often coexist in the same population. The stone architecture typically used in buildings more noble while the halfwood type used by the people, using the masonry at the bottom of the house and at the top, high on a cantilever structure shown chestnut stuffed with adobe.

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Almost all homes are on three floors. The floor houses the stable, barn, cellar and store tools. In the central There are rooms and bedrooms, while the kitchen, and left Sequero to store the harvest, is in the top floor. In the Jerte Valley see two types of mountain architecture, the stone house, typical of the municipalities located at higher elevations, in whose ground floor a hallway leads to the cellars and the stables, while on the ground higher develops the kitchen, fireplace, over which lies the Sequero and bedrooms. In buildings timber-framed masonry used on the ground floor and the upper, the cantilever and the sunshine. The ground floor has a hallway that leads to the cellar and the stables. Under the porch, down the steps, accessing the underground called "still life". From the hallway start other stairs leading to upper floor and held the "tablaillo" rooms and bedrooms. On the top floor is the kitchen, bedrooms and laundry. This architecture jerteos cuts across and integrates into the Valle del Ambroz, who shares many similar characteristics.

Architectural constructions Ambroz Valley masonry and usually in the top of the walls adobe is used, protected from rain and moisture with tiles placed vertically. The openings have Research of granite. Inside a courtyard house provides access to one or more bedrooms and cellar. Some staircases attached to the wall leading to the first floor, where there is a room with a balcony or outside window, bedroom and kitchen without any direct output of smoke. The Ambroz, the kitchen is the dependence of the house where is the family and is located on the top floor with the exception of the flatter areas, where the kitchen will be located behind the courtyard.

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The house of the region of La Vera fits into the type of wood framing. It usually has three or four levels: ground floor with a porch or patio that connects with stables, chicken houses and cellars. From the porch start a staircase leading to the bedrooms. On the second floor is the kitchen with "tejavana" single ventilation system. Here is also the "loft" or broker, then employed as drying of fruits and snuff and a pantry. On the same floor is the "sunshine" or large cantilevered balcony.

Usually, in the region of Tajo-Salor-Almonte, Traditional housing is built with masonry slate and, at times, resorts to mud and adobe, plastered and plaster. On the ground floor housing is developed while the upper receives the envelope. The Alagn Valley stands out mainly by the very remarkable monumental architecture in the Joint Coria and Galisteo. Granadilla Land focuses on the town of Granadilla was explained in another section. Sierra de San Pedro has the beautiful Gothic architecture of Valencia de Alcantara, with arched doors granite on lime plaster walls and framed in the type of "dwellings of the plain" buildings whitewashed walls, with more development in surface height. Miajadas-Trujillo whose center of artistic and historical heritage Trujillo, Medieval and Renaissance located in the Trujillo-Caceres peneplain which is detailed below.

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Alcantara

to the region erteneciente Tajo-Salor-Almonte, this town is strategically located at the border Portugal and located at the foot of the Tagus, has many historical records that reflect the occupation of this area from prehistoric, Roman and Arabic.

By Order of April 21, 1998, Alcantara is declared BIC with the category of historical. During the city tour, the presence of facades with covers and coats gives a stately appearance to the Set History, not in vain, Military Order of St. Julian de Pereiro, later known as the Order of Alcntara and nobility associated with it, build their houses and palaces in this city. The Historic is based on the quality of urban, architectural and plastic streets and squares and the stately architecture, religious and popular.

The Wall, the seventeenth century, made of slate for the most part, the Convent of St. Benedict the sixteenth century, made by the Order of Alcantara with an unfinished Renaissance cloister and church, but no less beautiful, the Church of Almocvar Our Lady of the XIII century, the Church of San Pedro de Alcntara, the seventeenth, the House of the Marquis of Torreorgaz Roco-Campofro Palace or the magnificent Roman bridge, built in the second century AD and dedicated to Trajan only bridge in the world both for its size and morphology ... are many attractions tourist interest that the town owns.

Similarly, the architecture is characterized by being simple. Predominates on the empty wall. The most ancient urban layout preserves the primitive, steep, narrow streets, some landlocked and small squares, all inherited from the Muslim period. Sometimes facing facades as integral approach passageways or tunnels.

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Head of the Valley

The Set History Cabezuela has great cultural value. Declared by the Decree of 21 April 1998, the narrow streets show an architecture of timber frame construction, usually brown oak and adobe, on the top floor while the ground floor is masonry. Are characteristic porches and cantilevered roofs. Within these homes there is a courtyard, on the ground floor gives access to the stables. The top floor has a kitchen and surrounding rooms and the drying of chestnuts. Above, there is an attic.

ste jerteo municipality is a connecting link between the Valley of Jerte, it belongs to and the nearby Valley Ambroz, thanks to the Port of Honduras, which communicates with Hervs Cabezuela, Ambroz Township.

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Cceres

l January 21, 1949 publishing the Bill of Cceres and Monumental, encompassing not only the indoor enclosure, but also the wall, the Plaza Mayor, Palacio de Abrantes, The House of Tricks, the Palace of the Island, St. James Church, the Convent of San Francisco, the Hermitage the Holy Spirit and the Shrine of Our Lady of the Mountain, among others.

In the "Heritage" will detail the salient features of this set monumental, not only covers the civil and religious buildings but also the Jewish Quarter, built on the Net of Jewish Quarters in Spain and located in one end of the wall, following the winding layout of narrow streets, some end.

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Coria
Coria historic l is considered BIC with the category of historical, from 25 in May 1993. The city of Coria is one of the most prominent urban models Extremadura. This is the result of a historic heritage of the different cultures that inhabited this place of Roman origin, as evidenced by its walls, factory premises polygonal masonry, was named Visigothic episcopal see and lordship of the Duchy of Alba in the fifteenth century.

Following a tour of the irregular layout of its streets, born during the Middle Ages, we see buildings as landmarks as the Cathedral of Santa Maria Assunta, the sixteenth century, built on the remains of a temple above and belonging to the Diocese Coria-Cceres, the Cathedral Museum, the Episcopal Palace, the Castle-century XV, Real Jail, the Convent of the Mother of God and St. Francis, the sixteenth century, and so on.

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Cuacos de Yuste

or decree of February 26, 1959, declaring the town of Cuacos de Yuste, belonging to the region La Vera, "Scenic Site", a grade equivalent to the present declaration of assets Cultural Interest category of Historical.

One of the defining features of La Vera is its architecture, influenced by the elements physical area. Responds to the type of mountain architecture, within the model of half-timbered. The winding layout of its streets and the perfect preservation of its noble architecture and allow you to enjoy the charm of this beautiful town Verat. One of the main attractions is the Plaza Mayor, arcades, with the Fountain of the Four sewers in the center. Another square, the Juan de Austria, where the infant's home, son of Emperor Charles V, King spent his last two years of retirement in the monastery of Yuste, which will be discussed in another chapter.

The mountain houses, made of masonry, adobe and half-timbered facades have overhangs and portico supported by wooden columns on a granite base.

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Galisteo

or decree of September 3, 1991 Galisteo declares BIC with the category of historical. Affected by this Decree to farms that are attached circling the walls and the buildings of the street parallel to it, the Medieval Bridge and other buildings nearby.

This town belongs to Alagn Valley retains a Almohad wall built with rolls and river pebbles. The vast majority of houses in this town are within the wall. Intramuros also Mudejar apse are owned by the Church of Our Lady of the Assumption, built in the thirteenth century, following schemes of Mudejar Romanesque Castilla-Leon. The apse is formed by two overlapping blind brick arches. The nave of this church was rebuilt in the XVI.

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Garganta la Olla

or decree of February 10, 1978, agreed that Garganta la Olla is declared a Historic Artistic, due to the good state of preservation of its architecture and timber framing stately home.

Other buildings include representing the House of Silk, sometimes residence of the Dukes of Alba and later in the eighteenth century, House of Trade of Silk, which he left to make beautiful wire tissues to the Court. The House of Dolls, its facade, blue and sculpted wrists and left jamb in the door, reveal that this house was a brothel, as the color indigo and wrists taped this house differed from the others. Concejil Building in the Plaza Mayor, porch and where the "cherry" of torture, where they had who publicly contradicted the law. Another building that deserves a prominent place is the Church of San Lorenzo, the sixteenth century, declared a BIC by category Monument.

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or urban layout and still have the quaintness of the mountain villages. The decree of March 21, 1995 states B.I.C. with the category of historical to the town of Gata, located in the region of the same name.

Gata popular architecture is characterized by high houses, two and three storeys, standing on the ground floor warehouses and stables, in the first, rooms and bedrooms and the latter, the kitchen, fireplace, pantry and attics. The construction materials of the mountain architecture of this area are: granite, lime and river sand brown. The adobe and wood framing used in the upper housing. In the sixteenth century, incorporates another building element, the "balcony" to keep out the sun and prevent the wine cellars are deposited in the overheating. Gata has some palaces and religious buildings such as the Parish Church of St. Peter, the sixteenth century or Christ Chapel of the Shrine, and elements of the sixteenth century. One of the best known civil construction Jet Source is in the Plaza Mayor, made of granite and adorned with Renaissance elements and heraldry of the Catholic Monarchs.

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The history of this town is constrained by the construction of Gabriel y Galn reservoir in 1965, when it occurs the eviction of the population about the danger of flooding and progressive deterioration the municipality. Finally the waters submerge the people around him but, leaving on a peninsula Granadilla protected by the Wall. This fortified area that houses in its interior Granadilla, is of Almohad built of masonry, except the entrance door, quarry. Within the village are two buildings: the Castle Tower, built by D. Fernando Alvarez de Toledo, First Grand Duke of Alba and the parish church of the Assumption, the sixteenth century.

l Royal Decree of September 26, 1980, declares Granadilla, a Historic Artistic Site.

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The town is also famous for the traditional architecture of their houses, which have been subjected to a process recovery and restoration from the eighties, thanks to the Interdepartmental Program abandoned village.

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Guadalupe

In the fourteenth century stands the Monastery of Guadalupe, where, during the fifteenth century, one of the most prominent religious and cultural center of the peninsula. In another chapter on this landmark space building, a World Heritage Site. The Monastery boom causes growth of the village following a spontaneous street layout, typical of the Middle Ages, with winding streets and mountain architecture, which follows the model used in construction northern towns of the province. The houses are built with stones in the Research of the openings, wood and adobe and tend to be whitewashed. These buildings, arcades and grouped at different heights, bring dynamism to the streets and squares. The houses, usually two floors, have overhanging upper floor on wooden beams and are the typical wooden balconies.

or decree of September 27, 1943 is declared a Historic Artistic Monument in the Town Guadalupe.

At the heart of Guadalupe, the Plaza Mayor, stands the Royal Monastery of Santa Maria de Guadalupe. This surrounding area and its focus the best examples of mountain architecture. El Colegio de Infantes or grammar is another important buildings in the locality. Mudejar art is left seen in the cloisters, coffered ceilings and doorways.

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Hervs
Hervas is situated in a privileged environment Ambroz Valley. During the Reconquista, the Order Temple raised a castle here. Hervs belonged to Bejar and over and over, dependent on the domain of the Zuniga, Duke of Bejar, until, in 1816, King Ferdinand VII declares Villa Free. The "Jewish Quarter" is located, like all Jewish quarters on the outskirts of the city center, in the most uneven of the locality. The houses reach quite high, two and three storeys, the highest overhanging. The framework of wood, usually brown, brick and mud, along with side planks or tiles, are the elements constructive characteristic of the Jewish quarter. This set is built on a plot of winding streets, some very narrow but full of charm. The Jewish Quarter of Hervas becomes the best scenario to represent every summer, the Festival of "The Converts ", involving the whole population.

l February 13, 1969 the Jewish Quarter of Hervas is declared a Historic Artistic Site.

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Moved from the Vera

roasted de La Vera, located on the western edge of the region of La Vera, was declared The historic July 28, 1998. Buildings are all falling within the perimeter traced by certain streets and giving the facade on either side of them.

The set is organized around three squares and each one of the most important buildings Location: City Hall, Church and Palace of the Counts de Osorio. The Church Square is available at two levels to save the inclination of the field, she found the parish church of El Salvador, dating from the sixteenth century, with additions in the eighteenth. It was built in concrete for the most part consists of three naves divided into three tranches. The Plaza of Spain, where the City Hall building which is an important example of architecture, with wooden lintel porch, balcony and solana.Y Finally, the Palace Square, where stands the Palacio de los Condes de Osorio, Renaissance-style building with two floors and built in masonry, masonry and brick.

The domestic architecture of the set usually consists of two floors and a large serving of dryer open through small window. It is built of stone and adobe, plastered and painted, with balconies or sunrooms of wooden terraces with large overhangs and covers lintels. As religious architecture, the chapel of Cristo de la Misericordia, whose oldest part dates from the sixteenth And XVIII of the Conception, the Baroque period and covered with half an orange dome on cylindrical drum.

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Plasencia
l July 20, 1958 is declared to various areas Monumental de Plasencia, a town located at north of the province of Caceres, in a strategic location because it is "door" access to the regions of Ambroz, Jerte and La Vera, a large shopping area north of Cceres. The town, crossed by the river Jerte, was conquered by Alfonso VIII in the late twelfth century. The urban campus is organized intramural taking as axis the main square, rectangular and porticoed main roads going radially from this point to the gates of the wall. Other streets secondary place them in communication with each other and a circuit borders the village, parallel to the wall, the area walled, forming a path radiocentric own medieval towns. In the group dominate the streets winding, with blind alleys and tight corner.

The constructive development since the sixteenth century regularly gives more layout and construction of palaces, churches and convents, as well as reforms of older buildings and higher-order symmetry contribute to the whole. Plazas and squares are organized around significant religious buildings, such as being able to appreciate Renaissance will put increased clearances and visibility. Palace and religious buildings, squares, walls, and other architectural and urban elements, form a set of historical interest. Among the most representative monuments of this town highlight the Old Cathedral, begun in the thirteenth century, the New, from the XVI and the artists involved as relevant as Juan de lava, Rodrigo Gil Gregorio Fernandez Church of St. Martin or St. Peter, the Convent of Santa Clara or the Discalced Carmelites, the Palace Episcopal or Jewish Quarter, part of the Network of Jewish Quarters in Spain are some of the testimonies that make up Set of Plasencia.

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Robledillo de Gata

obledillo de Gata, a town belonging to the region of Sierra de Gata, was declared a Historic by Royal Decree on March 7, 1994. This is a historic one of the best examples of domestic architecture and preserved in the province.

The walls of the houses are sometimes of adobe and others are made of very fine masonry with flagstones slate at the corners. Both forms alternate with half-timbered. Eaves, also of wood, usually very pronounced, so that in the narrow streets to join in doing the opposite facade passageways. The houses have balconies with balustrades and dryers and wood structure, which underpin in some cases on large beams, also of wood.

The facade usually has few openings, small, with access doors with lintels and steps to the housing. The farm buildings are in the same room, occupying the first floor. The property is developed on the second level being the main room the kitchen, around which other rooms are distributed. The top floor is occupied by the loft or folding and balconies. The gable roofs are quite steep and covered with Arabic tiles.

Robledillo religious architecture is dominated by the parish church dedicated to Our Lady of the Assumption work of the sixteenth century, and a single rectangular nave divided into four sections. Besides this temple, has also three chapels: the Lamb and the Shrine, both of the sixteenth century and dedicated to San Miguel, held based masonry and plaster board.

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San Martin de Trevejo

ocala located in the region of Sierra de Gata, is surrounded by large oak and chestnut. This settlement was inhabited as early as Neolithic times and was also important witness the passage of Celts, Romans and Berbers tribes. After nearly five centuries of Muslim rule was this region conquered by King Ferdinand II.

On March 12, 1991 file starts a historic declaration for the property within pavement inside track on certain streets, as well as giving facade on either side of them. In any old town can be steep streets along which the "regatta" to channel water of rain. The architecture is characterized by its facades with stone walls on the bottom and two upper floors cantilevered over strong wooden corbels. Its walls are plastered and whitewashed adobe walls or are wooden framework. The homes have high granite steps to access the first floor, entering his steps to the road public. From the first floor the front moves forward, holding on strong wooden mensulones with its carved edges, forming corbels and other figures, such as human heads and faces. The top floor usually have wooden balcony. At the top is part of the house with a pronounced eave formed by tables and wood.

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The number of houses with plastered walls and timbered with very similar. In the latter adobe or brick is used to form the walls between the wooden slats. Along with access doors open houses are large gates, which communicate with the agricultural departments. Overall it should be noted, as religious architecture, the Parish Church of St. Martin of Tours, Temple eighteenth century, with three naves and completed in ashlar masonry with reinforcement angles, cover and stirrups.

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Trujillo
l September 5, 1962 Trujillo declare BIC with the category of historical. Trujillo, a town belonging to the region Miajadas-Trujillo, Caceres peneplain fully, is heir one of the best examples of architectural heritage of Extremadura. Responsible for this were the different cultures that inhabited this place, from the Turgalium Roman, to the stage Muslim domination, when the enclave becomes a prominent significance, with the construction of a Caliphate and strength in times of an important part of the wall that confirmed the strategic interest of the enclave of "Turyla." Later it will become property of the Crown City first and then the Crown to experiencing a boom thanks to the arrival of American gold. Do not forget that Trujillo left major expeditions to the New World, led by Francisco Pizarro, Francisco Becerra, and so on.

The power of the nobility and the collaboration of the Council in religious works, along with the other circumstances favorable socioeconomic influence the development of a unique architecture which forms a large part the old quarter of the current artistic Trujillo. The Berrocal Trujillo, in addition to providing strategic and military advantages, has provided the city material for its architecture. Until the mid XIV century Trujillo's architectural development is concentrated in the interior of the walled enclosure and, thereafter, will also begin development timidly outside the walls, being in the sixteenth century when Trujillo will extend outside the walls.

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The urban architectural development of Trujillo allowed the erection of new buildings and noble renewal of old religious buildings, giving the town the aspect that will reach the XVIII century. In the nineteenth century the most significant changes occur in the urban structure. Set in the beautiful historic addition to the castle and the wall, stands arcaded Plaza Mayor, where he built the most important examples of noble architecture, core economic and social life Trujillo. The space is dominated by the equestrian statue of Francisco Pizarro. In the square is the Palacio del Marqus the Conquest, with its corner balcony representative characteristic of Trujillo and Caceres palaces, the "Casa de la Cadena," or House of the Chavez-Orellana or the church of San Marin.

Regarding the religious architecture, the Church of Santa Maria Maggiore is the most significant Trujillo, the Convento de San Francisco el Real, or La Coria, are other local landmarks.

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Valencia de Alcntara
unicipalities of the region of Sierra de San Pedro, is situated west of the province of Caceres, in the limit Portugal. Its Gothic was declared Historic by decree of March 18, 1997. This city was conquered from the Arabs in 1221, by troops of the Order of St. Julian de Pereiro, primitive military establishment that led to the powerful Order of Alcntara. The conquest meant for the the granting of city status property of the Crown. The urban complex known as "Gothic" is one of the most interesting of the region as far as construction Gothic-Renaissance refers civil. Located in the northern part of the population and housing is usually more common be narrow and deep two-story, whitewashed brick fronted and bleached stone and openings well-carved granite. The doorways are usually arch lintels doors but there and arch. On the facade of the ground floor windows are rectangular bars usually close to wrought iron. Most buildings are constructions of popular aspect, with fireplaces features architecture of the area, although others, of a larger package, presented a stately appearance, even noble, presence of coats of arms. Other elements of their architecture are the corner balconies.

All the space that forms the Gothic quarter was surrounded by a wall that began and ended in the castle, built on a hill that dominates the whole. It is an irregular shape building with five bastions and a Tower of Homage. Among the religious buildings is the parish church of Our Lady of Rocamadour, built between the fifteenth and Century, a basilica and three ships covered with vaults multiple low-rise, the number and quality construction make this building one of the most representative of the architecture of Extremadura, the Church of the Incarnation, building with three naves and covered with barrel vaults and the Convent of St. Bartholomew, a simple church building with small dimensions and a single ship.

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Valverde de La Vera

unicipalities of the region of La Vera, was declared a Historic Decree of 31 December 1970.

Cross-shaped structure, the town is organized around a main road with four intersections fundamental, Plaza of Spain, the Fountain of the Four pipes, of the Church and the Plaza del Rollo. For all its streets run pipes or ditches, the "regatta" to channel the rainwater. In the Plaza of Spain found porches on granite columns decorated with beads and trim. Roll in the pillory stands, element of octagonal shaft stands on a base decorated with chains and crowned with four animal heads and a decorated Gothic pinnacle.

The architecture of the population relies heavily on the grid. The houses are two and three levels, the first made of stone and two half-timbered and brick or adobe. Often find the upper floor facades of the veneer. As civil and religious architecture the highlights are the Castle and the Church. The Castle is the construction largest military in the region, its original factory paintings are preserved some walls and two towers square, which were used for the construction of the church, an apse and another attached to the feet, as belfry. The Parish Church of Our Lady of Clear Fountain, built in concrete and masonry, was completed late sixteenth century and has three naves and a hexagonal head.

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Villanueva de La Vera

Remains of a pre-Roman settlement in Cerro Castrejon and a dolmen near the village, indicating antiquity of human settlement in the area. The architecture of the area corresponds to the type of timber frame construction, where housing are constructed based on a wooden frame filled with brick, adobe or stone. As a construction relatively fragile, the urban fabric is organized from large groups of dwellings, with a tendency to be narrow and deep. Arise, therefore, large blocks with open dead ends in which entries are located at the houses. They have two or three floors, with walls often veneered with tables that open the windows and wooden balconies, the latter almost always on the top floor. There are also several examples in the town house whose first floor walls are built with stones stonework.

and is one of the most eastern of the region verata, declared Historic by Royal Decree of December 15, 1982.

As regards religious architecture in the town there are three buildings, the Parish Church of Our Seora de la Concepcin, in the late sixteenth century and built in concrete and masonry, the ruins of the Church Parish de los Santos Justo y Pastor and a small chapel of the eighteenth century, made of masonry and stonework, the door Access is sheltered under a porch on Tuscan columns lintels.

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Cceres
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to topography influences the urban development of Cceres, for being this high in a field unequal between the Sierra de la Mosca and Sierrilla on hardened soil and abundance of quartzite of granites. This site provides a wealth of constructive material that the Romans used to rectangular wall up 68,000 square meters and, centuries later, the Caceres nobles used to build their mansions, mainly using granite, slate and quartzite. The latter served a very important role because it allows water infiltration and this facilitated the construction of wells and cisterns in buildings.

In Roman times, the remains of walls on the base and one of its doors, the Arch of Christ. Have appeared fragments of pottery, sculptures and paintings. With the arrival of the Almohads, Cceres re-emerged, after the barbarian invasions. Erect new wall, demolished during the fighting with the barbarians, built of adobe, following the original Romanesque and reinforcing it with towers along its perimeter. Another of the gems that are conserved Almohads in the city is the well, located in the basement of the Palais des Veletas currently one of the major museums of the province.

From 1229, after the reconquest of the city by the troops of Alfonso IX and the subsequent repopulation with people from the kingdom of Leon, Asturias and Galicia, to be made with the power of the land, build strong houses of the walled city. These buildings will lose their defensive aspect once reached the Renaissance, when more safe and time in which beautify and show a more palatial, with greater openness of bays and patios.

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The two districts within the walls, emerged around the parishes of St. Mary and St. Matthew, develop a path urban streets characterized by winding, narrow, irregular, and usually with a steep slope, where are erected several palaces and noble houses. Furthermore, on the eastern flank of the wall, is the Jewish quarter that after the expulsion in 1492, became known as Barrio de San Antonio. The natural population growth leads to an expansion of the town outside the walls. From the fourteenth century comes a new collation, Santiago, around the parish of the same name and set up a neighborhood connect with the wall. In this collation are different constructions Mansion palace of the Duke of Abrantes, palace of Godoy Roco and public construction, Mercy Hospital, then converted in the palace of the Royal Court of Extremadura. Another extramural collation is San Juan de los Shepherds. The growth and expansion of the city, along with the creation of these snacks, causes the Square Santa Maria loses interest as a center of commercial life and appears on the scene, from the fifteenth century, a new and open wider space, the Plaza Mayor, a large rectangle, somewhat irregular and with a gentle slope, surrounded for homes with porches rest on main floors covered with groin vaults, which were located various professional associations and Cceres, and the town hall. The Plaza was the perfect place to hold fairs, markets, processions, etc..

Since then, the New Gate - from the eighteenth century, Arco de la Estrella, was the junction between the exhibition intramural and extramural town, becoming the main entrance of the wall.

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In the eighteenth and nineteenth century produced important reforms in some private buildings in the city, continuing in the nineteenth century, the growth of a new extension Cceres, from the church of San Juan to the Future Ride Canovas. Cceres was declared a National Monument in 1949, Third European Monumental and Heritage Center Site by UNESCO in 1986. He is currently a candidate for European Capital obtaining of Culture in 2016.

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Royal Monastery of Santa Mara de Heritage Guadalupe

CCOUNT to legend, early in the fourteenth century, in the valleys of Las Villuercas, Pastor Gil Lamb looking for a beef herd lost, found her dead. As he was butchering the animal, he returned to life. At that moment the Virgin appeared to him the cowboy who, after reassurance, he conveyed announced his desire that the wonder and dug in the same place where she found the dead cow. There appeared the image of Our Lady of Guadalupe and quickly spread his fame as a miracle.

King Alfonso XI, hunting enthusiast and connoisseur of the wealth of species of Las Villuercas, visiting area Often heard miraculous stories are told of the Virgin Mary and became a devotee of Our Lady of Guadalupe, entrusted to it before the famous Battle of Salado, which emerged victorious, despite the inferiority number of its troops. Grateful for the favors to the Virgin, a pilgrimage to Guadalupe and gave his humble church privileges and revenues that allowed the construction and enlargement of the sanctuary.

Guadalupe's fame spread rapidly and soon became the center devotional throughout southern peninsula. They arrived shortly after Jernimos monks who guarded the sanctuary from 1389 to 1835, spending several decades without the protection of any religious order, until in 1908 the monastery agreed to take over the Franciscans. With Jernimos and Franciscans live a long period of splendor that has reached our days. On October 12, 1928 Our Lady of Guadalupe was canonically crowned Queen of Spain and in 1907 was named patroness of Extremadura. The monastery has become the spiritual reference of Extremadura, which celebrates its patron saint each September 8, the day of the feast of the Autonomous Community of Extremadura.

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The main facade of the Monastery is Mudejar, as one of its two cloisters, the second is Gothic XVI. Save illuminated important books, embroidery, reliquaries, paintings of the artist Extremadura Zurbarn, El Greco and other painters, sculptures, jewelry, bronzes, etc.., Becoming a real guardajoyas enclosing itself several Museums: Embroidery, the Mini and the Book of Painting and Sculpture. The Temple is Gothic of the fifteenth century, the choir and chairs are works of Manuel de Larra Churriguera, mideighteenth century, the gate of the sanctuary, and the Gothic-Renaissance altarpiece, classicist. The image of the Virgin of Guadalupe is dated to the XII-XIII. In the sacristy, the seventeenth century, saved eight great works of the famous painter Francisco Zurbarn. Luca Giordano made the paintings of the dressing room and Egas Cueman the Tomb of Fray Gonzalo de Illescas. The Royal Monastery was declared a National Monument in 1879 and later, in 1993, World Heritage Site by UNESCO.

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Monastery of Yuste
European Heritage
No one side of the Sierra de Tormantos, two kilometers from Cuacos, stands the Monastery of San Jernimo Yuste. Its origins date back to the thirteenth century, when the owner of the land today occupies gave a religious community, the "Poor Hermits of Life" to build an convent. During the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries extending the building with a church and two cloisters, one invoice Gothic and other Renaissance. It is mid-sixteenth century when the monastery and his life will be altered by the will of the Emperor Carlos I of Spain, in choosing this place as home to end his days, after abdicating in favor of his son Philip II. As a result of this was necessary to address many works to give shelter to the Emperor and his vast entourage, edifying, south and connected to the church, a mansion of two plants with four rooms each, around a courtyard. On the main floor and his left wing are the antechamber and the chamber of Carlos V and rooms on the right side are two separate viewpoints to the garden, which completes the set with a beautiful pond and an oil mill and bread.

On September 21, 1558 died Carlos V. He was buried in the church to later be transferred by desire of Philip II the Royal Monastery of San Lorenzo del Escorial.

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In the War of Independence the convent was burned and nearly destroyed. Jeronimos were expelled and the monastery put on auction, beginning a period of neglect and deterioration of the building. The current monastery was rebuilt on the ruins of the old monastery. He pleaded B.I.C. with the category of Monument European Heritage in 1931 and in 2007. For years, he is at the European Academy of Yuste whose mission is to discover and display the European cultural works by implementation of various activities, among which, by its projection, the European Prize Carlos V.

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Regions
The Hurdes Valley Ambroz Saw de Gata Land Passionflower Valley Jerte Plasencia La Vera

Valley Alagn

Monfrage

Field Arauelo

Tajo-Salor Almonte Sierra de San Pedro Trujillo Miajadas Cceres Montnchez Tamujoso Villuercas-Jara Ibores

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Introduction Popular Architecture in the province of Caceres Of Historic
Alcantara Head of the Valley Cceres Coria Cuacos de Yuste Galisteo Garganta La Olla Cat Passionflower Guadalupe Hervs 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23

03 07

Moved from the Vera Plasencia Robledillo de Gata San Martin de Trevejo Trujillo Valencia de Alcntara Valverde de La Vera Villanueva de La Vera

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Cceres: Heritage Royal Monastery of Santa Mara de Guadalupe Yuste Monastery: European Heritage 37 40 42 46

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BULLETIN OF HISTORIC JOINT STATEMENT:

D.O.E ALCNTARA .- May 7, 1998, No. 51, p. 3357 Head of the Valley .- DOE April 28, 1998, No. 47, p.3141 CCERES .- B.O.E February 7, 1949 (illegible) CORIA .- D.O.E 1st June 1993, No. 64. p. 1488 B.O.E. CUACOS OF YUSTE .- March 7, 1959, No. 57 p. 3824 Galisteo .- D.O.E. September 10, 1991, No. 69 p. 1770 Garganta la Olla .- B.O.E. March 25, 1978, No. 72. p. 231 GATA .- D.O.E. April 1, 1995, No. 39.p. 1198 GRANADILLA .- B.O.E. November 10, 1980 (illegible) GUADALUPE .- B.O.E. October 10, 1943. p. 9808 HERVS .- B.O.E. March 3, 1969, No. 53. p. 3227 PLASENCIA .- B.O.E. July 8, 1958, No. 162. p. 6379 D.O.E. ROBLEDILLO DE GATA .- March 15, 1994, No. 30. p. 826 TRUJILLO .- B.O.E. September 7, 1962. VALENCIA .- D.O.E. ALCNTARA March 25, 1997, No. 36. p. 2173 Valverde de la Vera .- B.O.E. February 2, 1971, No. 28.p.1620. VILLANUEVA DE LA VERA .- B.O.E. January 26, 1983. VERA shifted from D.O.E. .- July 28, 1998, No. 86. p. 5950 SAN MARTIN DE Trevejo .- D.O.E. April 4, 1991, No. 25.p.713

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