We climbed 100 narrow winding steps in the bell tower of this 15th century Gothic-Renaissance church.

The church has a beautiful cedar wood reredos (altar facade) and this baptismal font dating back to the 14th century.

After Caceres was conquered by the Spanish in 1227 it's growing prosperity as a free trade town attracted merchants and later aristocracy to settle there. They rivaled each other with stately homes and palaces fortified with watch towers. The ornamental facades displayed shields of the town's leading families. Isabel and Ferdinand the reining monarchs ordered the towers cut lower in 1476 to halt the continual jostling for power. In 1949 Caceres became Spain's fi...