Caceres is another Spanish town with traces of Neolothic, Roman, Moorish and Catholic cultures. We started at Plaza Major and admired the lovely buildings around it and then went up the steps through the wall to the Museum de Caceres. This has an underground Moorish cistern from the original Alcazar. The ground floor has a central open courtyard surrounded by porticoes on 4 sides with terracotta roofs. the grate near one side of the tiled floor drains to the cistern below. You can walk into this via some narrow steps to a ledge near the bottom. There are 12 columns with horseshoe arches holding up the roof and we could see the water dripping into the cistern. Yes, it was raining.
We left here to go back into Portugal. As we drove past Estramoz we noted the mountains of marble ready to be processed.
We left here to go back into Portugal. As we drove past Estramoz we noted the mountains of marble ready to be processed.
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