2. The Sande’s Tower
The tower was built in the Gothic style in the fourteenth century and it is
attached to the House of Saavedra. It has two Gothic windows: the first
presents ogee arch supported by columns and it is in a rectangular frame,
the second has an arch and it is decorated with the Sande coat of armour.
The facade has a coat of arms with five lillies, belonging to the Aldana
family. It currently houses a good restaurant.
BY: Julio
Julio
3. The arch of the star
Located next to the Bujaco tower, it
was built in the 15th century at the
same point where there was a door
to allow the passage of the
carriages from the Plaza Mayor.
When the wall lost much , it was
called the New Door.
Bode
4. the arch of the star
The current form of the door due to the remodeling done by Manuel Lara
Churriguera in 1726, commissioned by Bernardino de Carvajal Moctezuma
who owned a palace next to the Bujaco Tower and wished that carriages
could have easy access to his palace. Therefore, he asked the council to
demolish the old door and open a new one with an angle to comfortably turn
to the left as you enter from the outside.
Alejandro
5. Placed in St Matthew' s square, opposite
St Matthew’s Church.
ST PAUL’S CONVENT
6. St. Paul’s convent
It has his origins in an institution for pious old women
founded on the 15th century, though nowadays it is a
convent of the order of St Clare, where the nuns of the
order of St Clare make typical
sweets and crafts.
7. St. Paul’s convent
The granite facade has Gothic style elements such as
pointed arches and archivolts.
8. The Cathedral of Santa María
The Cathedral of Santa Maria is the most
important church in Caceres.
It was finished between the 15th and the 16th
centuries, but they started building it on the
13th century.
It has two different styles, romanesque and
gothic. It has two gothic doorways with
narrow archivolts and images in the tympanum.
It has only one tower.
9. with pointed arches. There are also groin vaults in this
church.
The Cathedral of Santa María is a
part of the old quarter of Caceres,
which was declared a World
Heritage site by UNESCO in 1986.
This church is really big and it has very thick walls. It’s
divided in three naves, each one separated from the rest
10. LOS CABALLOS HOUSELaura Estévez
This building from 16th century
is next to the Veletas Palace
and it is known as Los Caballos
House. It is in the city of
Cáceres. It was used as the
stable of the Veletas Palace.
Now it is used like a museum.
11. LOS CABALLOS HOUSE
After some refurbishings, it was used to show different
paintings and also sculptures, from the Middle Ages up to
now. In 2003 some changes were carried out and the
Veletas Palace and los Caballos house were connected
with a footbridge over a garden. The garden was modified
to show sculptures outdoors. In the interior there are also
some areas reserved to show temporary exhibitions.
12. San Francisco Javier´s church
This church was made in the XVIII century.
The construction of the church began in 1698 and
it was finished in 1755. This church was made by
Pedro Sánchez Lobato. The style of this church is
baroque. From 1899 it was guarded by the
missionaries of the church of Santa María, which
is also known as “Church of the Precious Blood”.
This church is situated in the San Jorge’s square,
between the old squares of Santa María and San Matthew. A sculpture of St.
George, the patron saint of the city, dominates the square from a niche.
By: Daniel Galván
13. Adriana
The house of the Solis family, or the Sun house, is
one of the most important buildings of the historic
old town of Cáceres.
The house with gothic features was built in the
15th century and renovated in the 16th. The most
significant element of the facade is the family
coat of armour, a human-faced sun with rays bitten
by dragons and topped by a helmet. A rectangular
framed door with arches under the shield. At the
top of the façade stands a semicircular “matacán”
with cross-shaped loopholes.
Today, it holds an important file with documents
on America and the Philippines, guarded by the
missionaries of the Precious Blood.
The Sun house
14. The Palace of Moctezuma
This palace was built in the 16th century
on a previous construction.
It has a beautiful square tower topped with a dome.
The owners were Juan Cano de Saavedra
and Isabel de Moctezuma, daughter of the
King Moctezuma II.
Actually the palace is the archive of the city
and is situated between the Plaza Mayor
of Caceres and the Cathedral.
By: Alicia López
15. The sculpture of Ceres
HISTORY
Ceres was the Roman goddess of agriculture, grain, and the love a mother bears for her
child. She was the daughter of Saturn and Ops, the sister of Jupiter, and the mother of
Proserpine.
Ceres was a kind of benevolent goddess to the Romans
and they had a common expression, “FIT FOR CERES”,
which meant splendid.
She was beloved for her service to mankind
in giving them the gift of the harvest, the reward
for cultivating the soil. Ceres was the goddess of the
harvest and was credited with teaching humans how
to grow, preserve, and prepare grain and corn. She was
thought to be responsible for the fertility of the land.
María
16. The sculpture of Ceres
The sculpture of Ceres is in Foro de los Balbos, in Cáceres. This is a sculpture of a
goddess. She is dressed with a tunic and a scarf on her head. She is holding, with the left
hand, the horn of plenty. I think, she is holding that, because she was the goddess of the
agriculture. The sculpture is made of stone.
GODDESS CERES
17. Carvajal´s Palace
Carvajals´Palace is a monumental building
in the city of Cáceres.
The lineage of the Carvajal family came to
Cáceres from Plasencia in the 15th century,
where they built this palace next to the
Cathedral of Santa Maria.
Due to a fire this building is also known
as “The burned house”.
On its façade there is a simple arch and
the family coat of armour.
18. The people think that the tower of this palace has an arab
origin.
Nowadays, people can see the interior of the palace where
there is an fig tree that is 300 or 400 years old.
19. The Jewish Quarter
.
Sara
We have no sources of the time when the
Jews settled in Caceres.
In some law documents of Cáceres from
1229, we can read that the Jews
maintained a relevant presence in Cthe
Jews maintained a relevant presence in
society Caceres society during the long
Muslim rule of the city (then called Hizn
Qazris).
20. St Matthew´s Church
Saint Matthew´s church is a religious temple of roman catholic worship dedicated to
Saint Matthew, the apostle and Evangelist, in the city of Cáceres, in Spain. It is the
most important temple at the top of the monumental town of Cáceres. Since 1982 it is
known Artistic Historical Monument. Its construction began in the 16th
century on a
site occupied long time ago by a mosque and then it became a church.
It is a gothic temple but the façade is plateresque. The temple has arches flanked by
columns. There are symbols with the pictures of St Peter, St Paul and St Matthew in
the centre. The tower, without decoration, was built in 1780. It only has a nave and
there is an altarpiece in ‘extremeño’ style.
22. LAS VELETAS PALACE
The Veletas palace is a historical building from the 16th century. Now its a
museum. We can see some coats of armour with crowns on the façade and
above the door we can find some gargoyles. In this palace we can learn how
people lived in the past and we can see
some very important pieces of mportant from the
of art from 16th century.
Dani Paniagua
23. The Golfines Palace
The Golfines palace is in the monumental quarter of Cáceres, Spain.
It was built by the Golfín family that came to
the city after the Reconquest.
It has two different styles:
The fortress style of the 15th century and
the humanist one of the 16th century.
In the second one we find plateresque features
such as fantastic animals and coats of armour
of the Golfines and the Álvarez.
Laura Prieto
24. Bujaco Tower Bujaco tower is one of the emblems of
Cáceres and one of the most striking
buildings of the Main Square. It was built
around the 12th century as a defensive
tower and is 25 metres high and 10 metres
wide. In the 16th century, the Renaissance
balcony was orientated towards the Main
Square.
It is believed that the name of the
tower comes from Bujaco Caliph Abu
Ya´qub, who in 1173 succeeded in conquering
the city after killing 40 Frates of Cáceres
defending the siege tower.
