In the heart of low Estrémadure, one finds Zafra, with the title of the very noble one and very famous city, granted by Alfonso XII in 1882. It’s a significant population of the area. It is located in front of Castellar.

Its consolidation already started thanks to its fabulous situation in the transit of the Way of the Money, the route transportation more important so much in Hispánia Roman as in all the history until the S XIX. With fact part of Señorío, therefore County and then Ducado de Feria.

Maintaining Zafra are a city modern, vital, with a great commercial infrastructure, industrial and hotel, with vast avenues and beautiful places. A beautiful population which combines history and modernity perfectly.

Consubstantial with Zafra is its traditional Fair of Cattle of San Miguel, which annually takes place at the beginning of October. This festival goes back to 1453, granted by King Juan II Different monarchs they granted to the people Zafra the Fair of breeding, but was Felipe V that which granted it to perpetuity. A meeting of breeding is currently not only but one industrialist and commercial.

If you come to Zafra recommend we you visits Alcazar- the Palate of the Dukes of Fair, a construction of principles of the S XV, whose weapons chair the gate of the building, currently places Parador National of Tourism. It is surrounded by a wall of stone, which preserves three access doors: the door of the Trough, that of the Palate and that of Jerez. The palate is a construction almenada where it underlines the call it roasts Homage, where one installed on its rooms dukes and where they are fresh medieval of a great value. Since outside, the building has military aspect of construction, but the interior contains elegant characteristics from a palace. It has a vast court with cloister, of Renaissance style. It is necessary to also underline the Gothic cupola of the hood, of invaluable craft industry.

We cannot visit representative Zafra and not know its Grande Place, Petite Place and the Place of Pilarito.

In the Great Place the great festivals took place. It contains large balconies and its frontages shield solemn. It is a place closed door which is in the centre of the city, very vast. It is composed of a succession of brick arcs on low columns, with capital of various types, while forming some different supports with wood cover. On them residences of centuries XV with to the XVIII, in the medium a source and several palm trees. The ideal place to lunch or take wines in each one of its many terraces.

Beside the Great Place is the Small Place, connected to each other by Arquillo of the Bread. And very close a plate which recalls to a famous girl recently dead Zafra, the author Sweet Chacón. This place is reduced but guard a large enchantment. It was during antiquity it calms of a very famous weekly market. In one of the columns of this place is a brushwood sample to measure used by the traders.

It is also to mention and visit the Place Pilarito or the Place of the round Pillar. Where we find house a palate that underlines, that of García de Tolède and Figueroa, brother of the third Count de Fair. It is a house of the century XVI, which was convent of chocolate éclairs and was since confiscation, the seat of the Town hall.

Any Zafra and especially these places preserve details of the style mudéjar. To the place they give the streets with corporative names, which mean that in other times they were inhabited by craftsmen and tradesmen. We recommend to you try to find the street boutique and seeks in it the House of Ajimez, where you will be able to enjoy by admiring the prettiest window mudéjar that our area.

Other monuments to be underlined are:
- The Collegiate Church of the Candelaria Gothic construction with gates Rebirth. With a part of great interest, which is the challengeable of the hood of the remedies, that places seven paintings of the Zurbarán teacher.
- Are also to mention the Convent of Holy Claire, the Church of San, the Convent of Sta. Marine, the Convent of Sta. Catalina, the Convent of the Incarnation and the Mine, called Rosary, the Hospital Santiago, the Large House of the street Seville, the Casino, etc.