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 Car Hire & Driving in Caceres, SpainWelcome to Caceres Car Hire, Spain.Caceres Car HireCaceres, the capital of the northern Extremadura province of Spain, is a city lifted out of the pages of an illuminated book of Chivalry, as you can discover on a trip to Caceres in your hire car. Over the centuries, Caceres has been miraculously spared the sieges and bombardments that destroyed parts of other Extremaduran cities that you can visit in your hire car, and Caceres old quarter was one of the first to be declared a national monument of Spain in 1949. The old city of Caceres is separated from the new by well preserved walls and towers originally built in Muslim times which you can see today in your hire car while in Caceres. The walls of old Caceres are best approached from the Plaza Mayor in your hire car; however this approach is really best done on foot leaving your hire car behind, in fact for the most dramatic ascent, climb the steps leading through the Arco de la Estrella in Caceres. When Alfonso XI took Caceres from the Muslims in 1229, Caceres became the seat of a brotherhood of knights called the ‘Fratres de Caceres’, who eventually became Spain’s most noble order. At one time there were 300 knights in the city of Caceres, their palaces just a few steps from one another. Continual factions and rivalries meant that there was always a small war in progress somewhere around Caceres. In the interest of peace Fernando and Isabel ordered the destruction of most of the defensive towers on the palaces of Caceres in 1476. Of the few that are left, the most striking is perhaps the Torre de las Ciquenas, or Stork Tower, which you will find in your hire car in the Plaza San Mateo. Directly opposite in your hire car is the Casa de las Veletas, a baroque palace built on the site of the Islamic castle in Caceres. Upstairs is the Museo Provincial containing artefacts from prehistoric Caceres, which is worth a visit in your hire car. There are also reproductions of the cave paintings in the nearby caves of Matravieso worth a visit in your hire car and contemporary Spanish art is on display. Close by is the Jewish quarter of Caceres, recently restored and worth exploring in your hire car. The church of San Mateo, with a beautiful bell tower, and the Convento de San Pablo, inhabited by cloistered nuns who sell their famous ‘yemas’ through a screened dumbwaiter to avoid showing their faces to the world, are located in this part of Caceres and worth a visit in your hire car. Crowning a dusty hill surrounded by pastureland, Trujillo is 30 miles (47km) east of Caceres in your hire car on the N-521. Its number of extraordinary beautiful monuments make it well worth an extended visit in your hire car from Caceres. South of Caceres in your hire car, Merida is situated on a sluggish bend of the Guadiana river. Founded in 25 BC, the city of Merida became a prosperous capital of the Roman colony of Lusitania, and Roman ruins are Merida’s pride today, as you can discover on a visit to Merida from Caceres in your hire car. An attractive town on the banks of the Rio Jerte, Plasencia is about 27 miles (43km) north of Caceres in your hire car. Settled by the Berbers, it was conquered by Alfonso VIII, who in 1189granted it a coat of arms with the title ‘Pleasing to God and Man’. The best time to visit Plasencia in your hire car is on a Tuesday, when the market takes place in the Plaza Mayor, as it has for 800 years. In all Caceres is a fantastic place with plenty for you to discover in the Extremadura region of Spain in your hire car. Spain Car HireSpain. To the ancient Greeks, Spain was the land where Hercules’ golden apples grew; to the Arabs, Spain was the ground floor of heaven; to writers such as George Orwell and Ernest Hemingway, Spain was an area where history skittered between heroic feats and tragedy, and bullfighters flirted with death in work of an afternoon. Few other places so dramatically stimulate the imagination as Spain, as you will be able to discover in your hire car. Despite the steady traffic from Spain’s coastal resorts, Spain has remained in the eyes of outsiders a mysterious, half-mythical country. Spain’s long stretches of isolation from the rest of Europe began with Spain’s peninsular geography and were underscored by history. 700 years of Moorish occupation, were followed by a powerful empire that colonised the New World, the failure of which led via the Spanish Civil War 1936-9 to the oppressive regime of General Franco, all of which have left their mark of Spain, as you will be able to discover while touring in your hire car. However years of isolations for Spain has made it far from homogeneous. Spain embraces four languages and around seven dialects, and climate ranges go from the Subtropical south, sweet with its mangos ,and hibiscus, to the emerald north, with its gorse and heather and plunging fjords, providing you with so much choice of country side to investigate while touring Spain in your hire car. During your trip to Spain you will find some constants while in your hire car. One is light, the glorious sunshine that northern Europeans flock to bask in; but don’t make a mistake of just lying by the pool while, with so much to see and do, take advantage of the glorious light to tour the sights in your hire car. The other constant is a tremendous vitality, which you can observe in cafes and strolling Sunday evening crowds, in haughty urbanites and exuberant fiesta crowds while touring Spain in your hire car. Spain covers an area of 194,885 square miles (504,880sq km) with its capital, Madrid, situated almost in the centre. The Kingdom of Spain is a constitutional monarchy under King Juan Carlos I of the House of Bourbon, which has been on the Spanish throne since the death of Franco in 1975. Spain is divided into 17 autonomous regions, each with its own legislature. Spain is a member of the European Union, accepting the euro as its currency in 2002; the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO), and the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development. Foreign motorists must have either an international driving licence from their country of origin and this also applies when using a hire car, so make sure your driving licence is packed before you leave for Spain. Spain has about 195,850 miles (317,000km) of highway for you to explore in your hire car; however only a few thousand kilometres of them are fast, convenient and relatively safe motorways. There are toll fees payable if using the modern motorways in your hire car while, which have rest areas, bars and service stations, and roadside telephones are also places at convenient intervals, to enable you to call for assistance in the case of emergency or breakdown in your hire car. The speed limits while driving in your hire car are 120kph (75mph) on motorways, 100kph (60mph) on all other roads and 60kph (35mph) when driving through cities and towns. In Spain seatbelts must be worn by the driver and all passengers in your hire car, and your hire car should be quipped with a spare set of head and rear-light bulbs or you could face a penalty fine. To hire ca car you have to be at least 19 years of age with either an international licence or a valid licence from your own country. With so much varied countryside around Spain it’s recommended to have a hire car to really be able to explore Spain’s full potential without having to worry about public transport. A hire car will also enable you to investigate the more remote areas of Spain where public transport may not be readily available. Extremadura region Car HireDrive through the honey-coloured old section of an Extremadura town in your hire car and step back in time to a land of conquistador gold and baroque palaces. Bordered to the west by Portugal and to the north and south by granite mountain ranges that you can explore in your hire car, the arid plains and hills of Extremadura are sweet with the scent of wild thyme and eucalyptus. A complex network of dams can also be found in Extremadura in your hire car. Built since the 1960s the Extremadura dams irrigates newer market gardens and vineyards, which are also a joy to visit in your hire car, as well as providing water and power to large areas of Spain.
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