Built in the 16th century in the Renaissance style
Renaissance palace with a porticoed interior courtyard.
Also known as the Casa de las Veletas house, this palace was built in the 16th century on an earlier construction, whose 12th-century Arab cistern can still be seen today. On the exterior, the sober facade is crowned by a graceful balustrade adorned with pinnacles. Features on the interior include the Renaissance-style courtyard with semicircular arches supported on Tuscan columns. It is now the site of the Cáceres Museum.
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Las Veletas Palace

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The house with the crenellated tower
This noble home is noteworthy for its slender crenellated tower, built in the 15th century.
The palace of Las Cigüeñas is also known as the palace of Capitán Diego de Ovando or La Casa de Las Cigüeñas house, and was built in the late 15th century by Diego de Cáceres. The most distinctive feature of this noble home is its crenellated tower, which offers spectacular views over the city. It is now a branch of Caja de Extremadura.
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Las Cigüeñas Palace

The Catholic Monarchs stayed at the Golfines de Abajo Renaissance Palace of the Golfin family when they visited the city.
Situated in the city of Cáceres, the Golfines de Abajo Palace was built by the members of the Golfin family that settled in this city after the Reconquest. As you will see, this building displays two very different styles – on one hand it is a 15th century house-fortress, and on the other, a typically humanist building from the 16th century.
On the former, the tower with machicolations on two of the sides and segmental arches stands out; and on the latter there is a Plateresque cresting with fantastic animals crowning the façade. Inside you can find the "Salón de los Linajes" (lineage room), which is rectangular with polychrome coffering. The Catholic Monarchs came to the city of Cáceres twice, and both times they stayed at this palace.
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Los Golfines de Abajo Palace

From the 15th and 16th centuries in the monumental city of Cáceres you will find an unusual building with a mixture of Gothic and Renaissance elements.
This building from the 15th and 16th centuries is one of the most emblematic in the old town of Cáceres. The architecture of the palace includes elements proper to both the Renaissance and Gothic periods. Access to the interior is gained through a dressed granite doorway above which you will see the Carvajal coat of arms, framed in an alfiz. The prominent features of the façade are the corner balcony and the round tower which stands next to it.
Inside there is a rectangular courtyard with arches on columns, a magnificent garden and several works of art which deserve your attention, such as a mid-16th century tapestry with the mark of the city of Tournai.
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Carvajal Palace

The castle of Mayoralgo, also known as Garabato, is located in the village of Aldea del Cano in the province of Cáceres, opposite the fortress of La Cervera. This fortification was erected here in the 14th century, and is currently privately owned.
Few remains of the original construction are still standing. Even so, we can see the keep, which still has some of its battlements, loopholes and remains of the machicolations projecting above.
Some canvases of the enclosure and of the two cisterns that guaranteed the water supply on the inside are other remains that one can discover on a visit to this ancient fortress.
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