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Where to Stay in Cáceres, Extremadura
Cáceres holds a UNESCO-listed old town of towers and palaces in the centre of Extremadura, capital of the province that carries its name.
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Where to stay in Cáceres
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The walled quarter is the whole point. Sleeping inside the Walls of Cáceres puts Cáceres Cathedral, the Church of San Mateo, the Palacio de las Veletas and the Casa de los Cáceres Ovando within a few minutes on foot, which is what several days in this city are actually for. Cars stay outside.
If you want the walled streets in the evening, with the Torre de Bujaco standing over an emptied square, this is the only side worth booking. Outside the gates the city turns ordinary and useful. Rooms near the Museum of Contemporary Art Helga de Alvear are easier to reach with luggage, keep a supermarket in range, and still leave the Walls of Cáceres inside a short walk.
Parking decides some trips. The blocks out by the Multiusos Ciudad de Cáceres suit anyone arriving with a car and no appetite for the ramps and steps that the walled quarter imposes on every visitor who comes through it. Cáceres is a provincial capital, so the newer streets carry the offices, the courts and most of the working traffic.
The Cáceres Museum and the Casa Museo Guayasamín de Cáceres belong to the visiting side of that divide rather than the working one. Both sides sit inside the same small city, and the real difference is a matter of steps and of stone underfoot.
About Cáceres
Towers define the old town.
What is Cáceres known for?
The Torre de Bujaco, the Torre de los Sande and the Tower of the Pulpits rise out of a walled quarter that UNESCO listed whole, and the Walls of Cáceres still draw the line around it. Palaces fill the rest. Palacio de los Golfines de Abajo, Palacio de las Veletas and the Casa de los Cáceres Ovando carry the names of the families that raised them, while the Museum of Contemporary Art Helga de Alvear puts an entirely different century inside the same small city.
What are the main landmarks in Cáceres?
Cáceres Cathedral anchors the walled quarter. Torre de Bujaco, Torre de los Sande and the Tower of the Pulpits stand above it, and the Palacio de los Golfines de Abajo, the Palacio de las Veletas and the Casa-Palacio de los Becerra carry the noble houses. Churches punctuate the streets.
Church of San Mateo, Church of Santiago and the Iglesia de la Preciosa Sangre divide the parishes, while the Casa Mudéjar de la Cuesta de Aldana keeps another building tradition alive inside the same walls.
What is the history of Cáceres?
The Cave of Maltravieso came first. It belongs to a period with no cities in it at all, and everything raised in Cáceres since has stood on ground that people had already been using for a very long stretch of time. Rome arrived later.
Castra Caecilia names a Roman camp, and the Latin inside that name is the oldest layer the city itself still carries. The Walls of Cáceres set the shape that survives. Inside them Cáceres Cathedral, the Church of San Mateo and the Church of Santiago fix the medieval parishes, while the Torre de Bujaco and the Ermita del Espíritu Santo answer to the defensive and devotional habits of the same centuries.
Then the families built. Palacio de los Golfines de Abajo, Palacio de los Golfines de Arriba, Palacio de los Málaga, Casa de los Cáceres Ovando, Casa de los Caballos and the Torre de los Sande are the houses of the families who ran the walled town, and the Casa Mudéjar de la Cuesta de Aldana, the Casa de los Trucos and the Church of San Juan stand among them. UNESCO listed the Old Town as a whole.
The Cáceres Museum, the Casa Museo Guayasamín de Cáceres and the Museum of Contemporary Art Helga de Alvear are what the later city added to it.
Where is Cáceres?
Extremadura wraps around it on every side. Cáceres occupies the centre of the region, a long way from any coast and from any border, with the walled quarter still marking the compact core that the rest of the city grew around. The surrounding province borrows the city's name.
Past the last of those newer streets, Extremadura returns to open country almost at once.
What is the climate of Cáceres?
Nothing coastal reaches this far inland. Cáceres sits in the middle of Extremadura with no sea anywhere near it, so the summer afternoon builds without interruption and the winter nights fall away just as freely. Stone helps.
The walled streets below Cáceres Cathedral stay cooler than the open ground outside the Walls of Cáceres, which is a practical difference in high summer rather than an aesthetic one.
How do you get to Cáceres?
The old town is not for driving. Arrivals leave the car in the newer streets outside the Walls of Cáceres and walk in from there, because the walled quarter was laid out for feet rather than for traffic and has not changed its mind since. Torre de Bujaco marks the way in.
The Multiusos Ciudad de Cáceres stands on the modern side of the city, which is where most vehicles end up.
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Updated August 2026