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What to see and do in Casar de Cáceres

What to see and do in Casar de Cáceres (Comarca de Cáceres, Cáceres): 2 places across monuments, nature, activities and curiosities, with a photo and a Google Maps location.

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Towns near Casar de Cáceres

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What to see and do in Casar de Cáceres

Casar de Cáceres
Village
Municipality located at about 365 m altitude, a short distance from the provincial capital, crossed by the old Roman road that later became the Cañada Real Soriano-Occidental drover's road and a Way of Saint James route. It had 4,604 inhabitants in 2016, after reaching a historic peak of 5,241 in the early 1960s. It is the leading municipality for the Torta del Casar, a raw sheep's milk cheese curdled with thistle (Cynara cardunculus), protected by a Designation of Origin covering 36 municipalities in the province.
Torta del Casar
Food and drink
Soft-paste cheese made from raw milk of native sheep breeds, curdled with wild thistle (Cynara cardunculus) instead of animal rennet, which gives it its characteristic creamy texture. It holds a Protected Designation of Origin, whose production area includes 36 municipalities in the province of Cáceres, with Casar de Cáceres being the town most closely associated with the product.