The busy commercial town of Cáceres, chief town of Cáceres province in western Spain and the see of a bishop, lies near the Portuguese frontier in a fertile agricultural area. A walk through the old walled town takes visitors back to the Middle Ages.
History
The town was originally founded in the
first century A.D., probably on the site of an Iberian settlement, by the Roman consul Caecilius Metellus under the name of Norba Caesarina or Castra Caecilii and became one of the five most important colonies in the province of Lusitania. During the period of Visigothic rule the town was abandoned, but it was rebuilt by the Moors, who called it Quazri. It passed to León in 1227.
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