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Casar de Cáceres

Residents: 4.664 aprox.
Province: Cáceres

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Get to know Casar de Cáceres

The village of Casar de Cáceres is located approximately 10 km from Cáceres and that is why for many years it was considered as a hamlet of the city and not as an independent village.

Many pilgrims decide to make the final stage here instead of staying in the city of Cáceres, both places have all the basic services that the walker needs.

Location

How to get there

The easiest way to reach the village of Casar de Cáceres is by road thanks to the A-66 highway linking Gijón and Seville. It also has other roads such as the national N-630, the CC-38, CC-75, CC-100, CC-122 or the EX-390 linking the village with the towns that are around including Cáceres.

The village also has railway lines that allow you to reach Cáceres, Plasencia, Valencia de Alcántara and other towns in between. In addition, it has a bus station with daily lines and high frequency mainly to Cáceres.

History / Culture

What to see

Museo del Queso

This museum, located in a typical Casareño house, aims to collect and disseminate the history and the process of making Torta del Casar, as well as to show the cheese production and narrate in some of its rooms the daily life of the families of the village.

Iglesia de Nuestra Señora de la Asunción

It is a temple of Gothic style of the sixteenth century built on another ancient church of the thirteenth century of which only part of the gable is preserved. This building was entirely built with granite ashlars and has a rectangular floor plan. It has three access openings framed by semicircular arches and pointed arches, all of them without decoration. The exception is the door of the feet that presents to the outside an arcade as a porch.

Ermita de Santiago

It sits on the Camino Vía de la Plata and stands out above all for the beauty of the image of Santiago Apostle in its interior. The main chapel and part of the first nave are preserved, as well as the side entrance to it.

Ermita de San Bartolomé

It is a small hermitage built with masonry but completely covered with plaster. In its literal facade it has a rectangular door of stonework and an inscribed lintel. In another of the facades is a tile talaverano representing San Bartolomé with his attribute or knife in his hand and the devil at his feet that has him subject by a chain.

Ermita de la Soledad

Small chapel of the seventeenth century that stands out especially for its external decoration in sgraffito with plant motifs. Inside is the Virgin of the same name, the oldest of them.

Dehesa Boyal

This is a natural spot where you can find both a mountain area and a pond and where you can see the most characteristic birds of the area such as the white stork or the hoopoe.

Centro de Interpretación de las Vias Pecuarias (Casa de los Pinotes)

Also known by the name of “Centro de Interpretación de la Cañada Soriana Occidental” has the main objective of paying tribute to the men and women who lived the transhumance showing their environment, their infrastructure, their history… La Casa de los Pinotes combines tradition with technology in order to meet its objectives and disseminate all their knowledge.

Estación de autobuses

Inaugurated in 2004 and designed by the architect Justo García Rubio. The most characteristic element is the curved white concrete ribbon, folded on itself giving rise to two spaces, one for the waiting room for users or the cafeteria and another to house the buses.

A laminated structure with the vocation of sculpture.

Information of interest

Local police

609 164 048

Civil guard

112

Fire department

112

Civil protection

112

Town hall

927 290 002

Health center

927 291 531

Tourism office

669 96 18 87 / 927 29 00 02

C/ Larga Baja, 4, 10190

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The gastronomy of Casar de Cáceres revolves around three main pillars: torta del Casar (the most important cheese in Extremadura), tench and pastries. The traditional recipes that stand out the most are escabeche de tencas, fried tench, buche con berzas, frite, stewed pig’s feet, black pudding, callos casareños and chanfaina. In the desserts of this locality, the most outstanding are the rosquillas de alfajor, the roscos blancos, the roscos de vino, the bolluelas, the mantecadas, the perrunillas and the torta borracha.