In the early morning, the sunlight reflects golden yellow on the columns of the Roman theatre in Mérida and reveals a splendid backdrop of beautifully preserved ruins dating form back over 2000 years.
Badajoz has been one of the historical hot-spots of Spain. Firstly the Moors and Christians faced off in this region for many hundreds of years; For most of history, Badajoz has been frontier territory.
30,000 years ago human hands painted on the walls of the Maltravieso caves not far outside the area now known as Cáceres. The city’s history of settlement and growth is one that is woven into the fabric of the Iberian Peninsula.
On the edge of history, Mérida is the administrative capital of the autonomous region of Extremadura and has been declared as part of the Heritage of Man by UNESCO.
Located in the natural parkland of Villuercas, surrounded by the Sierras de Guadalupe and Altimira, Guadalupe is a small village with a big significance.
Covering a total of 19,950km2, Cáceres forms the northern part of the Autonomous Region of Extremadura. Its neighbours to the north are Salamanca and Avila in Castilla-Leon and Badajoz, the other half of Extremadura, to the south.
The history of the region has been one of conquest and reconquest. From the Ibers and Romans through to the troops of Napoleon and finally, the worst of them all, Civil War...
Sitting atop a granite batholith, some 250 km to the west of Madrid, Trujillo is a city filled with buildings and monuments representing many different stages in the cycle of Spanish and world history.
