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Badajoz
Because of its location, most people see Badajoz on the way
from Spain to Portugal or vice versa, but it has sights to
keep a visitor happily busy for an afternoon or even a whole
day.
Badajoz
The municipal website.
Badajoz
An amateurish web page, with good information and lots of
photos, but unfortunately in Spanish only.
Cáceres
Cáceres
The Spanish-only city council site. Click "Paseo Turístico"
for an OK virtual visit.
Cáceres
Cáceres is the most captivating town in Estremadura, a medieval
city made wealthy by the plunder from the Indies. This is
a "World Heritage Cities in Spain" site, which means it is
good on monuments and photos and less so on amenities. Don't
believe the bit about the "peace, quietness and temperance
within its inns and restaurants;" Cáceres is a university
town and as lively as anywhere in Spain.
Cáceres
- from Alexander in Spain
Some nice photos, from an account of Master Alexander's holidays
in Spain. The photo of "a stork" next to that of "another
stork" says volumes.
Guadalupe
A town rather than a city, and a tiny one at that, but the
Royal Monastery of Santa Maria de Guadalupe gives it a grandiose
feel.
Guadalupe
The UNESCO description of this World Heritage Site.
Mérida
Mérida - Augusta Emerita - was once the capital of the Roman
province of Lusitania and is now the capital of Estremadura.
The things not to miss are the Roman amphitheatre, especially
if you coincide with the open-air Classical Theatre Festival
in July and August, and the Museo Nacional de Arte Romano,
which is magnificent.
Mérida
This is a good site, unfortunately only in Spanish.
Mérida
- a personal home page
A really remarkable web site put together by someone called
Francis, unfortunately only in Spanish, but with fabulous
photos and graphics.
Plasencia
Plasencia is a small, charming, rather sleepy medieval city,
with seemingly countless casas señoriales (roughly
"manor houses," but sometimes small palaces).
Palencia
This historic city in Old Castile, between Valladolid and
Burgos, has a certain reputation for being sleepy and backward.
The municipal tourist site is fine, but Spanish-only.
Plasencia
An excellent site from a web design company, dealing with
both city and province, which scores over the municipal tourist
site both in design quality and in having an English-language
version.
Trujillo
Important as the birthplace of a number of conquistadors,
particularly Francisco Pizarro, Trujillo is a small country
town with an unbelievable concentration of monuments and storks
nesting on every steeple.
Trujillo
The municipal site looks like someone's school project but
has some great content. Spanish-only, unfortunately.
Trujillo
- from The Alexander Home Page
It is reassuring to know that "the Alexander Home Page
is opposed to the wholesale destruction of civilizations."
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