The old quarter of Cáceres

Social Studies 2º ESO B

The Sande’s TowerThe tower was built in the Gothic style in the fourteenth century and it is attached to the House of Saavedra. It has two Gothic windows: the first presents ogee arch supported by columns and it is in a rectangular frame, the second has an arch and it is decorated with the Sande coat of armour. The facade has a coat of arms with five lillies, belonging to the Aldana family. It currently houses a good restaurant.

BY: Julio

Julio

The arch of the star

Located next to the Bujaco tower, it was built in the 15th century at the same point where there was a door to allow the passage of the carriages from the Plaza Mayor. When the wall lost much , it was called the New Door.

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the arch of the star

The current form of the door due to the remodeling done by Manuel Lara Churriguera in 1726, commissioned by Bernardino de Carvajal Moctezuma who owned a palace next to the Bujaco Tower and wished that carriages could have easy access to his palace. Therefore, he asked the council to demolish the old door and open a new one with an angle to comfortably turn to the left as you enter from the outside. Alejandro

Placed in St Matthew' s square, opposite St Matthew’s Church.

ST PAUL’S CONVENT

St. Paul’s convent

It has his origins in an institution for pious old women founded on the 15th century, though nowadays it is a convent of the order of St Clare, where the nuns of the order of St Clare make typical sweets and crafts.

St. Paul’s convent

The granite facade has Gothic style elements such as pointed arches and archivolts.

The Cathedral of Santa María The Cathedral of Santa Maria is the mostimportant church in Caceres.It was finished between the 15th and the 16thcenturies, but they started building it on the13th century.It has two different styles, romanesque and gothic. It has two gothic doorways with narrow archivolts and images in the tympanum.It has only one tower.

with pointed arches. There are also groin vaults in this church.

The Cathedral of Santa María is a part of the old quarter of Caceres,which was declared a World Heritage site by UNESCO in 1986.

This church is really big and it has very thick walls. It’s divided in three naves, each one separated from the rest

LOS CABALLOS HOUSELaura Estévez

This building from 16th century is next to the Veletas Palace and it is known as Los Caballos House. It is in the city of Cáceres. It was used as the stable of the Veletas Palace. Now it is used like a museum.

LOS CABALLOS HOUSEAfter some refurbishings, it was used to show different paintings and also sculptures, from the Middle Ages up to now. In 2003 some changes were carried out and the Veletas Palace and los Caballos house were connected with a footbridge over a garden. The garden was modified to show sculptures outdoors. In the interior there are also some areas reserved to show temporary exhibitions.

San Francisco Javier´s churchThis church was made in the XVIII century.The construction of the church began in 1698 and it was finished in 1755. This church was made byPedro Sánchez Lobato. The style of this church isbaroque. From 1899 it was guarded by the missionaries of the church of Santa María, whichis also known as “Church of the Precious Blood”.This church is situated in the San Jorge’s square, between the old squares of Santa María and San Matthew. A sculpture of St. George, the patron saint of the city, dominates the square from a niche. By: Daniel Galván

Adriana

The house of the Solis family, or the Sun house, is one of the most important buildings of the historic old town of Cáceres.

The house with gothic features was built in the 15th century and renovated in the 16th. The most significant element of the facade is the family coat of armour, a human-faced sun with rays bitten by dragons and topped by a helmet. A rectangular framed door with arches under the shield. At the top of the façade stands a semicircular “matacán” with cross-shaped loopholes.

Today, it holds an important file with documents on America and the Philippines, guarded by the missionaries of the Precious Blood.

The Sun house

The Palace of Moctezuma This palace was built in the 16th century on a previous construction.

It has a beautiful square tower topped with a dome.

The owners were Juan Cano de Saavedra and Isabel de Moctezuma, daughter of the King Moctezuma II.

Actually the palace is the archive of the city and is situated between the Plaza Mayor of Caceres and the Cathedral.By: Alicia López

The sculpture of CeresHISTORY

Ceres was the Roman goddess of agriculture, grain, and the love a mother bears for her child. She was the daughter of Saturn and Ops, the sister of Jupiter, and the mother of Proserpine.Ceres was a kind of benevolent goddess to the Romans and they had a common expression, “FIT FOR CERES”, which meant splendid.She was beloved for her service to mankind in giving them the gift of the harvest, the rewardfor cultivating the soil. Ceres was the goddess of the harvest and was credited with teaching humans how to grow, preserve, and prepare grain and corn. She was thought to be responsible for the fertility of the land.

María

The sculpture of CeresThe sculpture of Ceres is in Foro de los Balbos, in Cáceres. This is a sculpture of a goddess. She is dressed with a tunic and a scarf on her head. She is holding, with the left hand, the horn of plenty. I think, she is holding that, because she was the goddess of the agriculture. The sculpture is made of stone.

GODDESS CERES

Carvajal´s PalaceCarvajals´Palace is a monumental building in the city of Cáceres. The lineage of the Carvajal family came to Cáceres from Plasencia in the 15th century, where they built this palace next to the Cathedral of Santa Maria.Due to a fire this building is also known as “The burned house”.On its façade there is a simple arch and the family coat of armour.

The people think that the tower of this palace has an arab origin.Nowadays, people can see the interior of the palace where there is an fig tree that is 300 or 400 years old.

The Jewish Quarter

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Sara

We have no sources of the time when the Jews settled in Caceres.In some law documents of Cáceres from 1229, we can read that the Jews maintained a relevant presence in Cthe Jews maintained a relevant presence in society Caceres society during the long Muslim rule of the city (then called Hizn Qazris).

St Matthew´s Church Saint Matthew´s church is a religious temple of roman catholic worship dedicated to Saint Matthew, the apostle and Evangelist, in the city of Cáceres, in Spain. It is the most important temple at the top of the monumental town of Cáceres. Since 1982 it is known Artistic Historical Monument. Its construction began in the 16th century on a site occupied long time ago by a mosque and then it became a church. It is a gothic temple but the façade is plateresque. The temple has arches flanked by columns. There are symbols with the pictures of St Peter, St Paul and St Matthew in the centre. The tower, without decoration, was built in 1780. It only has a nave and there is an altarpiece in ‘extremeño’ style.

St Matthew´s church By: Francisco Javier

Muñoz Arenas

LAS VELETAS PALACEThe Veletas palace is a historical building from the 16th century. Now its a museum. We can see some coats of armour with crowns on the façade and above the door we can find some gargoyles. In this palace we can learn how people lived in the past and we can seesome very important pieces of mportant from the of art from 16th century.

Dani Paniagua

The Golfines PalaceThe Golfines palace is in the monumental quarter of Cáceres, Spain.It was built by the Golfín family that came tothe city after the Reconquest. It has two different styles: The fortress style of the 15th century andthe humanist one of the 16th century. In the second one we find plateresque featuressuch as fantastic animals and coats of armour of the Golfines and the Álvarez.

Laura Prieto

Bujaco Tower Bujaco tower is one of the emblems of Cáceres and one of the most striking buildings of the Main Square. It was built around the 12th century as a defensive tower and is 25 metres high and 10 metres wide. In the 16th century, the Renaissance balcony was orientated towards the Main Square. It is believed that the name of the tower comes from Bujaco Caliph Abu Ya´qub, who in 1173 succeeded in conquering the city after killing 40 Frates of Cáceres defending the siege tower.

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