Logbook · 3 places

What to see and do in Pozuelo de Zarzón

What to see and do in Pozuelo de Zarzón (Valle del Alagón, Cáceres): 3 places across monuments, nature, activities and curiosities, with a photo and a Google Maps location.

1 Villages · 1 Monuments · 1 Food and drink

Towns near Pozuelo de Zarzón

Spain › Extremadura › Cáceres › Valle del Alagón › Pozuelo de Zarzón

What to see and do in Pozuelo de Zarzón

Pozuelo de Zarzón, sede de la mancomunidad del Alagón
Village
430 inhabitants (2025), 466 m in altitude, 47.43 km², in a small depression surrounded by olive groves. It is the administrative seat of the Mancomunidad Integral Valle del Alagón. It was called simply "Pozuelo" until the 1916 place-name reform.
800 hectáreas de olivar de Pozuelo de Zarzón
Food and drink
About 800 hectares of olive groves devoted to table olives make up the municipality's main agricultural output, which also had tin and wolfram mining, the latter involving clandestine trade during the Second World War.
Fuente de la Zarza de Pozuelo de Zarzón
Monument
Fountain bearing an inscription dated 1398 that attests to the antiquity of the settlement, through which Vettones, Romans, and Arabs passed. Next to the Renaissance church of San Pedro stand the Baroque hermitages of the Cristo del Humilladero and Santa María.