Located in the natural parkland of Villuercas, surrounded by the Sierras de Guadalupe and Altimira, Guadalupe is a small village with a big significance.
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.
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.
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.
