CACERES. OF MALTRAVIESO TO THE FINGERPRINT OF ROME
City Patrimony of the Humanity
CACERES. OF MALTRAVIESO TO THE FINGERPRINT OF ROME City Patrimony of the Humanity |
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The presence of human groups, in the surroundings of Cáceres was already recorded in the upper Palaeolithic, settled in the caves of Calerizo, very close to the current center of the city. The establishment of a Roman camp a few kilometers from, Caceres the Elder, generated a population nucleus, which gave rise to Castra Caecilia in 25 BC. With the Visigoths the population suffered a certain decline, gaining great importance with the Muslim conquest. The Golden Age and the years after the conquest of America, shaped their most representative urban profile and monumental ensemble in their history.
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MALTRAVIESO, THE DAWN OF HISTORY The Calerizo de Caceres, located in the urban area of the city, became known as an area of quarries, used for the extraction of building materials and exploited by the 50s and 60s of the last century. One of the blasts made at that time, he exposed a series of cavities and galleries, on the other hand logical in such geological structures. On the walls of the cave, various engravings and cave paintings were discovered, which, in the eyes of the experts, attributed to the place exceptional heritage qualities, assuming that the first inhabitants of the city, used these sights as habitacles intended for ritual and funeral ceremonies. The human and animal remains, together with the paintings of their famous "amputated hands", accompanied by other schematic figurations, allow to date their antiquity in about 15,000 years, which places the rock deposit in the Upper Paleolithic and later. The cavity, now closed to the public to safeguard its protection, was initially explored in 1951 by Carlos Callejo Serrano. In its vicinity has been erected an Interpretation Center, which reconstructs part lyre inside the site. |
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CACERES "THE OLD". CASTRA CAECILIA It is the remains of a Roman military camp founded in 80 BC under the name of Castra Caecilia, by General Cecilio Metelo in the course of his wars with Sertorius. Although much before the primitive Cáceres, it depended at the time on Norba Caesarina. It is a rectangular enclosure, protected by a beautiful wall four meters thick, defended in turn by large moats. The remains that have come to light, are complemented by an Interpretation Center that allows the visitor to get an idea of the objective and the constructive characteristics of this type military settlements. |
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NORBA CAESARINA The wall bases and towers recovered by the Muslims, after the conquest of the city to the Visigoths, made the ancient Roman origin of the city think. It is supposed to be related to a settlement carried out by occupants of the nearby military camp. Around 25 BC Norba Caesarina was founded, in honor of Nebony Caye and Julio Cesar. Excavations carried out in the subsoil of the Palace of Mayoralgo, have discovered remains of the noble buildings of an important Roman city. |
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www.ayto-caceres.es/ http://caceres2016.net/ http://www.ayto-caceres.es/caceres2016/index.asp www.caceresjoven.com/ fotografias propiedad del autor |
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