Badajoz Center

The extensive historical-artistic and cultural patrimony that it has, makes of Badajoz an enormously attractive city. The sociability of their inhabitants and their strategic geographic situation turns it a always pleasant place to know and to visit.
The cathedral, Of similar aspect to a strength, was built on which outside previously temple mozarabe/visigodo (century XIII-XVIII. The cathedral is of Latin cross plant, with three ships and cruise. They emphasize in its interior diverse chapels of great artistic interest and the Greater Altar, with a baroque altarpiece of golden wood, cripta, sacristía, claustro of century XVI and the choir.
The "Alcazaba": the Arab Fortress dominates, from its location at the top of cabezo of "the Tooth", to the rest of the city. Strategic and defensive situation is of time almohade.. Towers of rectangular plant reinforce wall linen cloths. Among them, the one of Watchtower one has become pacense, well-known emblem popularly like "Espantaperros"
The Tower of "Espantaperros": Of time almohade, although its bell tower is a work to mudéjar of century XVI, this tower has become the emblem of the pacense capital. It was denominated previously of the Old Watchtower or, at the present time the construction is well-known popularly like Tower of Espantaperros, due to the peculiar one tolled of a bell that formerly lodged. She is similar to the one of the Tower of Gold in Sevilla.
They can visit several convents (of Santa Ana, Carmelite, Descalzas), churches (Solitude, Santo Domingo, San Agustin). During centuries, the border condition of Badajoz has influenced of total form in its configuration and, paradoxicalally, it has given attractive an historical one him more and more appreciated. Walls, doors and bridges conform an attractive tourist and cultural route. In the walled cities the establishment of access doors to the same one was common, of which some are conserved, whose names remember neighboring populations: Door of Mérida, Sherry Door, well-known actualemente like Door To pound, Door of Palms.
Provincial museum of Beautiful Arts: Originally located in one of the halls the Palace of the Delegation, palace was transferred to a house located in the street Meléndez Valdés in 1979. When the building was insufficient, other adjacent buildings were acquired. This way, the three plants of the different houses define the characteristics of the circulation in his interior.En whatever to the bottoms, is precise to indicate that, although in his majority they belong to centuries XIX and XX, the old collection are quite representative.
Frontier and Latin American museum of Contemporary Art: It was constructed taking advantage of the old pacense jail during years 50 on the military bastion the wall known like Bunker of Pardaleras. Of new construction, the buildings destined to the Museum are two: the central building, that rises through an old evocative panóptico of the prison one, and a second building destined to services. The Museum was inaugurated in 1995. Made with the idea to create a work bottom of contemporary art, simultaneously that point of contact with the cultures of Ibero-America and Portugal. Palace of the Dukes of Fair or the Rock: Residence during century XVI of Lorenzo Suárez de Figueroa, Duke of Fair or the Rock, by that was built, to the being this one regidor of the east city palace constitutes a good example of fortified satately residence, with beautiful claustro to mudéjar that today, after a restoration and adjustment of great taste, it has become seat of the Provincial Archaeological Museum.
Ceramists and goldsmiths are made famous in capital Badajoz, where they do not lack craftsmen of the wood and the forge, as well as places where to be able to acquire beautiful embroiderings. The basketwork also has inherited teachers who work faithful to cánones of long ago in this frontier capital.
The Carnivals of Badajoz, declared Celebration of Regional Tourist Interest, are considered like of the best ones of Spain, and every year they attract thousands of inhabitants who participate during days in these celebrations. The pacense Easter receives a very particular splendor with the passage of the Brotherhoods by the streets intrawalls of the city, with images of great artistic value. The Romería of the Virgin of Bótoa, the first Sunday of May, congregates to tens of thousands of people around the Brotherhood of the city; in an admirable place between encinares, to about 17 Kms. of Badajoz by the highway of San Vicente de Alcántara. Of great fame in Extremadura they are the Celebrations and Fairs of San Juan in the month of June, where they go to contemplate in excess of bulls and to amuse themselves in ample week the frontier and Portuguese visitors. The Festival the International of Contemporary Theater, the Festival the International of Extremadura (CIOF) or the Iberian Festival of Music are some samples of the interesting cultural supply that Badajoz offers the year throughout, or in the Municipal Audience or in splendidly rehabilitated Theater Lopez de Ayala.

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