Month: June 2021

Dolmen de Lácara

We had read about a Dolmen north of Mérida, which we wanted to see. We visited some others before, in Andalusia and Portugal and were looking forward to this one too, as they are all different in their state of conservation. It is located in the middle of the Dehesa, where a small sign on …

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Emerita Augusta

Mérida, once Emerita Augusta, was founded as a Roman colony in 25 BC under the order of the emperor Augustus. As one of the most important cities in Roman Hispania, it was endowed with all the comforts of a large Roman city and served as capital of the Roman province of Lusitania. The Muslims were re-using Roman walls …

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Guadalupe

In the very East of the Extremadura lies the Royal Monastery of Santa María of Guadalupe, for centuries the most important cloister in Spain, inextricably linked with the Spanish campaigns of conquest in America. The Catholic kings Isabella I of Castile and Ferdinand II of Aragón received Christopher Columbus here in 1486 and 1489. He made …

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Cáceres

We had reached Cáceres, where the city wall still contains a medieval town with no outward signs of modernity. While wandering through streets and alleys with medieval palaces and churches, it is easy to imagine to have travelled back in time. We had decided to visit the Casa-Museo Árabe, a historic house which is decorated like the …

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