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OTHER INTERESTING BUILDINGS IN CÁCERES.
 
 

Of left to right. Tower of Sande. The Sun House. Carvajal Palace. The Monkey House.

 
 
It would be very difficult to be able to summarize in few words its great amount of architectonic resources.

The House of the Monkey:
It is a small building but with clean personality, was during many years a museum of painting. The most popular of this house are its mains waste-gas with sculptures between the human and the animal. And under a whole inscription: Fauces of the lion defend me. Such an amount of I shine in a so small house it is not normal in architecture cacereña, this is why some want to see that one wanted to count a certain dramatic history through these waste-gas mains: A beautiful virgin married with a man becoming old cannot have wire, and it brings a monkey of its voyage to Americas so that it is satisfied and takes care it as if of his son it were treated, thus the fact, being the monkey the king of the house. But last time, the injury is pregnant of beautiful and young knight, and it drinks it moves with the monkey with a second time, so jealous it is that one day it throws to the child by the window, by representing the waste-gas mains with the black nurse who took care of the child, the mother, the old misled husband.

The Palace of Carvajal:
In Cáceres there exist much of streets whose names point out their corporative past to us, each street had a professional field, while going up because the street stores Al Palate of Carvajal, also called the House of the Round Tower, or Marie Burned, already which in 19th century suffered a voracious fire. Simple frontage and simple balcony of corner, the only ornament is the escudo of the family.

Carvajal have a curious history:
Brothers Juan Alfonso and Pedro de Carvajal were shown to assassinate with an appreciated knight of the cut of the King Fernando IV, they protested their innocence in front of the King, but was worth them of nothing, being condemned and being carried out while revealing them by the Roller of Martos. Before dying they convened with the King with a Court of God, and the King at thirty days is deceased, considering does it like test of its innocence, and the members of their family decided to perpetuate her mourning to change the red band of their escudo by another black. In this Palate we see by their post office the round tower leaned with the building, probably date from the 13th century, and has clear Moslem influence. In the weak part of its interior a hood with splendid murals in its safe deposit places, works Juan Bautista Pachi.

Golfines de Arriba, transformed today while restoring of luxury. Many posterior reforms were work of principles of the 15th century, but absolutely guard the initial aspect, since as in almost all the Cacereños Palates, took place, as is the integrated Tower lopped with matacán which belonged to Saavedra and was bought in the 19th century to incorporate it in this one. Also the building is famous to have been general quarter of Frank in the first days of the Civil war, since its balcony it promised the restoration of the Monarchy, (which by certain achieved forty years later).

We cannot cease seeing an architectonic surprise in Cáceres, which is the only sample that us remains of art mudéjar: The Mudéjar House, dated in the 14th century. A part of the history of Cáceres which speaks to us about the Toledo influence, written in a humble material: the brick.

Through the street Orellana, we arrive at an evocative corner of Cáceres, formed by the House of the Sun, the House of the Eagle and the Tower of Sande.

Remains it of Solis is simple and balanced, the matacán semi cylindrical which watch preserves-T the military goal of the medieval time, also this house lays out an alfiz you decide?

Its owner, Gómez de Solís, were able a lidiador which drew the attention of the King Enrique IV, that which said to him that it would grant to him what it would wish, and thus the first required Maestrazgo of him d' Alcántara.

It does the Tower of Sande, beautiful, with its matacán in angle supported by nine modillones, show the evidence of sound lop, which would be the height of the tower before its lop

The Sanctuary of the Virgin of the Mountain, owner of Cáceres

San Francisco Conventual, currently, Complex Cultural, pertaining to the Delegation of Cáceres, which deserves to be visited, especially by her beautiful cloisters.

 
     
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