Things to see and do Cáceres

Cáceres, a World Heritage city, offers many tourist attractions. For information on places to visit and things to do, visitors can go to the Tourist Office in Cáceres' Plaza Mayor. Tourists can obtain brochures and advice on the best places to explore in the city. The office also offers practical information on transport, accommodation and restaurants. Whether you're planning a two-day visit or a more in-depth exploration of the region, the Cáceres Tourist Office is an ideal starting point for planning your trip.

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.

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.