Archaeology handicrafts and science and technology sites to visit Extremadura

5 km from the town, the oldest remains of this town, dating from the Chalcholitique (the third millennium BC), are located in the first Gisement I deposit, and account for a larger period for the second, Castillejo II, which houses vestiges from the Neolithic (4 th Millennium BC.) to the Romans. On this second site, you will notice the urban route and the robust defensive structures. Explanatory panels are located on both locations.

The Las Villuercas site has a large cave art spread over over 30 panels. In the heart of the country of Las Villuercas, it is one of the most spectacular areas in the region, where the Mediterranean forests in perfect conservation conditions are combined with the mountainous alignments which have one of the most important peaks in Extremadura.

The engravings of the Hurdes are spread over a vast territory covering the communes of Casar de Palomero, Pinofranqueado, Caminomorisco, Nuñomoral and Casares de las Hurdes.

In the country of Las Hurdes there is a series of open-air engravings which, by their number and their remarkable character, constitute within the post-Palaeolithic cave art of the Iberian Peninsula a uniform and singular nucleus.

In total, 15 different rock destinations are now perfectly marked for better access to visitors. They are located in various important places: Casar de Palomero, Pinofranqueado-Caminomorisco and Nuñomoral. These are enclaves of the type "pétroglyphe", of slate outcrops of slate, most often, which have been the object of identifiable engraved by percussion and incision.

The sites are generally made of rocky outcrops located at mid-slope, above the bed of a river or stream, and most often oriented on a north-west/northeast line.

If the grounds appear most often on the horizontal surface of the rock, with the floor, there are also some sets of decorated rocks. These are - in all cases - natural outcrops of slate or shale.

In most cases, the themes represented are geometric or linear, and there are also, with a certain profusion, a few figurative elements such as horse fers, representations of shaven human feet, agricultural tools (sickles, serpes), and arms (swords, knives, launchers). Much more exceptional, anthropomorphic or schématisations of human silhouettes in which they wanted to see idols and other elements difficult to interpret.

One of the most significant rock art ensembles in the Cáceres region, and the first to be the subject of an archaeological register in 1916. It is structured in a unique scene where the human figure is the main element. This scene consists of small groups characterized by their different chiefs and ornements, and, according to the interpretation that has been made, represents a tribal meeting. Painting is the only technique used, in a pretty weathered red color. There are also some symbolic elements and two very patterned representations of zoomorphes. The whole is dated from Neolithic to the age of copper.

2 km southwest of La Zarza is this small shelter under rock dominating the plain. Park your car near signs and follow signs for about minutes.

The site was discovered and studied by Abbot Breuil in the second decade of the twentieth century. century and revealed numerous figurative and symbolic inscriptions: features, angles, spirals and others with less indentifiables shapes. The entire wall, about a dozen meters, is covered, but most paintings have suffered from the passage of time and are no longer very visible.

The paintings revealed very schematic anthropomorphic, zoomorphes and idéomorphes signs, the meaning of which, again, is not known.

The cave, closed to the public, presents a collection of paintings and engravings for most of the Paleolithic, and some further schematic elements. There was a set of hands painted in negative (71 in total) that the current research works are located chronologically at the very beginning of Paleolithic cave art. It should be added to this the presence of zoomorphes patterns (cattle, capridés and deer) and some graphèmes of symbolic type (point alignments, coupled contributor, triangles, etc.).

The Interpretive Centre introduces visitors to the most characteristic aspects of Maltravieso cave art, through posters, models, audio-visual documents and a small reproduction at the real scale of one of the cave halls.

The popular architecture of the village is a typical example of the architecture of the so-called Lathe Estrémadure, a system of most often wooden lattage and usually nailed or bolted to the frame to receive coverage. The houses have a ground floor built in masonry and a top floor developed from a wooden frame filled with pisés, all complemented by wooden balconies and small stone staircases. We also note the large tiles covering the part of the wall that can receive rain. All this is to be found in the most captured part of the village, on the land, the so-called Quartier district. In the highest part of the village, the bourgeois houses appear. Built during the expansion of thermal tourism at the end of the th and early th centuries, they are all in beautiful stone, display wrought-iron balconies and sometimes decorate their facade of modernist elements such as plant motifs or plume.

Set up in an old home house, the casa de los pinotes, it presents everything related to the major transhumance routes, including the circuit of the Cañada Real Soriano West, from Soria to Badajoz, crossing the provinces of Segovie, Avila, Salamanca and Cárque. Áceres. This center is run by the Tagus Association, which organizes a road of transhumance on the occasion of the Torta del Casar festival at the end of October, with tasting of migas from the shepherd and route accompanied by a herd of sheep.