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Stage 11

Stage from Valdesalor to Casar De Cáceres

km 22,8

Time 05H 30’

Difficulty Medium

Hostels 4

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The ascent to the port of Camellas allows you to discover and reach Cáceres

Information about the stage 11: Stage from Valdesalor to Casar De Cáceres

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Points of interest in the stage 11: Stage from Valdesalor to Casar De Cáceres

9 Church of the Assumption
8 Albergue Municipal de Casar de Cáceres
7 Step under the utovia
6 CC-38. Route to Casar de Cáceres
5 Albergue Municipal Ciudad de Cáceres
4 Albergue turístico Las Veletas
3 Plaza Mayor de Cáceres
2 Alto de las Camellas
1 Albergue de Valdesalor

The route

Km 0. Valdesalor(Hostel. Bar. Store. Office. medicine chest)

Taking as a reference the N-630, we walked left until we reached the height of the restaurant and the gas station. At this point we cross the road and continue along the path to the right of the National. So we got to a section of asphalt to save the highway by a bridge. We follow the path – the N-630 on our left – and two kilometers later we pass through a tunnel under the National Highway (Km 3.5). Now, with the National on the right, we are progressing in comfortable ascent through a loose stone road that leads us to crown the Puerto de las Camellas. Here, at an altitude of 482 meters, a war fence near the grounds of the Santa Ana military camp (Km 4.8).

We crossed the N-630 for the last time and after a slight echo we spotted the city. In three kilometers we enter Cáceres through the Atlantic Ocean Street, where dozens of small workshops are located (Km 8.5). Later we crossed the EX-206 and followed the endless San Francisco Round (as a reference we will go with an Institute, the Provincial Court and the San Pedro de Alcántara Hospital). We reached the roundabout of the Plaza de San Francisco and at the gates of the historic center, declared a World Heritage Site in 1986. An alternative to reach the center is to climb the streets San Ildefonso, Plaza Santa Clara and Puerta de Mérida. After going down the Adarve of Padre Rosalío and the Adarve Santa Ana we went under the Arc de la Estrella and finally accessed the Plaza Mayor.

Km 11.6. Caceres(All Services)

Although there are still more than 11 kilometers left for the Casar de Cáceres there is enough time to visit its historical complex and replenish forces in one of the terraces of the Plaza Mayor. Like Merida, Cáceres deserves a quiet visit that is worth a overnight stay. He leaves the city through the streets Gabriel and Galán and the Plaza del Duque, where he turns left by General Margallo to reach the Plaza de Toros leaving this to our right. The monument to the Laundries is left behind and then a pedestrian crossing by the road. We thus reached a roundabout to continue through the CC-38. (km 13.5)

A repecho will open before us a long line of unwooded asphalt for which we will advance two and a half kilometres. Thus, between kilometric point 3 and 4 of this track, a yellow arrow on the tar diverts us to the left to link to a road (Km 16.2). An hour later – we can find some areas with water or mud – we pass under the bridges of the highway (Km 20,7) and the link of the round to outline another line that will take us to the entrance of the Casar. There is only one pedestrian walk between palm trees and the Calle Larga Alta of the town to reach the City Hall and the hostel.

Km 22.8. Casar de Cáceres(All Services)

The difficulties

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What to see, what to do

CÁCERES: According to several historians, the city of Cáceres is settled on the ancient Roman colony known as Norba Caesarina and founded around 35 B.C. This colony was born as a result of the Castra Caecilia camp, located just three kilometers from the city and founded by Quinto Cecilio Metelo in 79 B.C. during the war he confronted Sertorio. After the disintegration of the Roman empire, no memorable events of Visigoth time are remembered. Cáceres regained more importance during the invasion of the Berber villages of Almoravids and Almohades. They sold their lives to defend it, but it was finally reconquered by Alfonso IX of León in 1229. It was repopulated by people from the north of the peninsular region and during the fourteenth, fifteenth and sixteenth centuries the intramural aspect it preserves today. It has the Old Town with the largest unit of the historical complex of Spain and as a result is World Heritage City since 1986.It has more than 50 monuments worth highlighting although we will only list some of the most relevant:
- Concatedral de Santa Maria: Concathedral since 1957, as the cathedral, from the middle of the ages, is located in Coria. Built in the 15th and 16th centuries, it is a mixture of Romanesque, Gothic and Renaissance styles. The altarpiece of the main chapel, made of cedar wood by Guillén Ferrant in 1551, stands out. Inside the temple there is an image, which arouses many legends, of a crucified black Christ. It's anonymous from the 14th century.
- Church of Santiago: The final configuration of the church, built on a temple of the 12th century, took place in the 16th century under the direction of Rodrigo Gil de Hontañón and Sancho de Cabrera. Externally, it is their counterstrengths that give them greater originality. On one of the doors there is sculpted an image of pilgrim Santiago.
- Church of St. Matthew: Later than the other Cacereños monuments, it was erected between the 18th and 19th centuries on the remains of an Arab mosque. His plateresca door stands out and the rococo altarpiece of Vicente Barbadillo.
- Plaza Mayor: The white facades of their houses and the arches that support them provide this enclosure with a great visual appeal. It was used by merchants and craftsmen since the 13th century. On the eastern side is backed by the Almohade period walls.
- Torre de Bujaco and Ermita de la Paz: The 12th century Almohade tower, used as a defensive stronghold by Christians, which, according to legend, were killed by the Arabs. Next to the tower is the Chapel of Peace, of the 18th century.
- Star Bow: Built in the 18th century by Manuel Lara de Churriguera. It is the most famous and busy door to enter the historical complex. It owes its name to the image of the Virgin of the Star, which is at the back of the bow.
- Arc of Christ: Also called Puerta del Río, it is located in the Barrio de San Antonio and is the only Roman gate that is preserved.
- Casa de los Toledo Moctezuma: Headquarters of the Archivo Histórico de Cáceres, which owes its name to the marriage of Juan Cano de Saavedra to Isabel, the daughter of the Aztec emperor Moctezuma II.
- Palacio de los Golfines de Abajo: From the 15th and 16th centuries, it is a Gothic house, typical of the civil architecture of Cáceres, with a prominent Plateresca front that is killed by a crest of taps - half eagle and half lion - and flameros. Inside there is a gravestone with the famous inscription of Here the Golfins await the day of Judgment, which was transferred from the chapel of a Cacereño convent.
- Casa de las Veletas: It currently houses the Archaeological Museum. It was built at the end of the 15th century on the space occupied by the old Almohade fortress. It is also known as Casa del Aljibe, as an Arab water tank is kept in the basement of the building.
- Godoy Palace: House of the conqueror Francisco de Godoy, and it is worth visiting only by its balcony in corner of Manierist style.
CASAR DE CÁCERES: Only 11 kilometres from Cáceres, the Roman Norba Caesarina, the
Parish church of the Assumption: Built in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries on another older church. Its bell tower stands out with its shields, gargoyles and pinacles. On the counterforts are provided the nests that the storks build year after year. The largest altarpiece in the 17th century is a monumental work in which two sculptors, a painter, a dorator and an assembler, collaborated.
La Torta del Casar, your best ambassador: It's not a monument to use, but as if it were. The Casar Cake is the product that has given the people fame. It is a cheese made from raw sheep's milk and vegetable garlic from the Cynara cardunculus thistle.
La Fiesta de la Tenca:Popular celebration held at the end of August and, on a rotating basis, among the localities that make up the commonwealth of the Tagus - Salor: Aliseda, Arroyo de la Luz, Brozas, Casar de Cáceres, Garrovillas, Malpartida de Cáceres, Navas del Madroño, Villa del Rey and with the collaboration of Alcántara. Apart from its end, which is the tasting of the Tenca (fish of the ciprinids family living in embalmed and calm waters), there is a fishing competition and verbena.