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What to see and do in Jaraicejo

What to see and do in Jaraicejo (Comarca de Trujillo, Cáceres): 4 places across monuments, nature, activities and curiosities, with a photo and a Google Maps location.

1 Villages · 1 Monuments · 2 Historical milestones

Towns near Jaraicejo

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What to see and do in Jaraicejo

Jaraicejo
Village
Municipality of 418 inhabitants (2025), 177 km² and 506 m altitude. Tradition attributes its founding to Queen Urraca (1109-1126); it became an ecclesiastical lordship in 1294 and experienced its period of greatest splendor in the 16th-17th centuries under episcopal patronage, before suffering serious damage during the War of Independence (1809). It preserves a 16th-century episcopal palace and the ruins of a medieval castle.
Castillo medieval de Jaraicejo
Historical milestone
Fortress of which two round towers and remains of walls survive today; it was dismantled in 1477 by order of Isabel of Castile and Fernando of Aragón.
Luisa de Carvajal y Mendoza
Historical milestone
Spanish mystic and preacher (1568-1614), born in Jaraicejo, active in England; her incorrupt body is kept in the convent of la Encarnación in Madrid.
Puente sobre el río Almonte
Monument
Nine-arch bridge with carved episcopal coats of arms, built on the initiative of Bishop Gutierre de Vargas Carvajal.