Extremadura seems, at first, a land of barren landscapes, product of the image that produces the strong heat to us caused by the so level sun and its landscapes. Long plains that trim the highways that cross it. But between the cherry trees of the Valley of the Jerte, and the National Park of Monfragüe, near the Edge, we were with a beautiful city: Plasencia. The blazon that in its day granted Alfonso VIII, founder of the town, indicates that Plasencia hides after the towers and the rest that are of their wall “so that it pleases to God and the men”. A full town of churches and palaces is Plasencia. A place where one breathes tradition and withdrawal in many of his streets. It is the aroma that is breathed by great part of Extremadura and its towns, condensed here, in a few streets: the palace of Monroy, the one of Marquess de Mirabel, the house of the Hoops where Juana married the Beltraneja and Alfonso V of Portugal. The house of the Dean is one of the oldest buildings of the city, of century XVII. In the building corner emphasizes its balcony mainly doing and, the heráldica of shields of all the families who inhabited it.

The Episcopal Palace is of century XV, although it was finished in the XVI. At the moment it welcomes the Diocesano File and the Library of the old school of the Jesuits. Its facade is Renaissance, although it emphasizes his back part, so white, standing out over the walls that they give to the Jerte river. The Cathedral of Plasencia is its jewel, with a new part and another old one. Its construction was carried out between centuries XII and XVI giving to monumental image to an exquisite set in which they emphasize his vaults and their octogonal cupola, to that popularly is known like “the Melon”. In the heat of spring, to take a walk in the environs is a pleasure able to fill us the senses, because not only the Vista enjoys this monument, but also the sense of smell, by the naranjos in flower that extend the cathedral set in front of. Happening in front of the prison we arrived at the Greater Seat. Almost in its entrance, we were with the City council, in which it emphasizes the real shield that it shows in its facade. The present building is a reconstruction of year 1966, based on the old one of year 1523. Even so, the File of 1569 as well as commemorative inscriptions of the taking of Granada by Kings Católicos are conserved in their interior. The clock of the Council dates from year 1546, while the articulated doll that is seen next to the bell (the well-known as Mayorga Grandfathers) is of year 1743. It was destroyed by the French in 1811, but reconstructed again in 1936. The present data of year 1977. Finally, the Greater Seat, in the one than is necessary to savor the air that is breathed at the moments at which a traditional swap-meet is opened… And thus, between nostalgia of these traditions, and the tranquillity of its streets, we directed our passages towards the walls of the city, to lose to us in its History and to throw a last look to this satately city before directing our passages towards the near Monastery of Yuste.

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