[8][9] The actual municipal population data varies significantly, fluctuating by more than 30,000 people primarily related to educational centers[10] such as the Cáceres Campus of the University of Extremadura[11] or the CEFOT-1 of the Army.

The other name is "Castra Caecilia," given by the consul Quinto Cecilio Metelo Pío to one of the military camps near the colony.

"[20] Historians have debated which of these is the true origin; until the 19th century it was mistakenly thought that Norba Caesarina was the neighboring town of Alcántara, while it was believed that the walled enclosure of Cáceres was Castra Caecilia.

In any case, sources from the time are scarce, since the Muslims never considered Cáceres as an important town beyond its use as a military fortification.

Some remains of the first city walls built by the Romans in the 3rd and 4th centuries still exist, including one gateway, the Arco de Cristo.

The old municipality of Aldea Moret, 2 km to the southwest, is currently a neighborhood of the same name integrated into the city, around which two Roman archaeological sites can be seen: Cuarto Roble and El Junquillo.

After the fall of the Western Roman Empire, the city was occupied by the Visigoths, until the Arabs conquered Cáceres in the 8th century.

During this period, which began in 1142 with the conquest of Coria, the Tagus River marked an unstable border between Christians to the north and Muslims to the south.

The Portuguese Geraldo Sempavor conquered Cáceres in the mid-12th century in a campaign that began in 1165 and reached the entire center of present-day Extremadura, but an alliance between Ferdinand II of León and the Almohads gave the Leonese control of the town in 1170.

After the battle of Las Navas de Tolosa in 1212, the conquest of Alcántara took place in 1213, after which the Christians besieged Cáceres in 1218, 1222, 1223 and 1225, producing the definitive Reconquest on 23 April 1229.

The prohibition of stately properties in this jurisdiction prevented the formation of a strong nobility, leaving the town governed by a mesocracy of agricultural knights.

The walls contain a medieval town setting with no outward signs of modernity, which is why many television shows and films have been shot there.

However, during the second half of the 18th century, the town began to grow, motivated by the arrival of both temporary and permanent foreign settlers, whose presence gave rise to the formation of a local bourgeoisie that until then did not exist due to the rural nature of the population.

Starting in the mid-18th century, ranchers from the center of the peninsula, many of them from the Sierra de Cameros, began to settle in Extremadura, fleeing the crisis suffered by transhumance.

[39] Numerous officials and professionals from very different places in Spain began to settle in the town, which increased the weight of the local bourgeoisie.

At the beginning of the 19th century, merchant neighborhoods could already be distinguished in the Old Town extramuros (outside the walls), with their houses located in the Plaza Mayor and in several streets in its surroundings such as Barrionuevo, Empedrada, Parras, Pintores and Santo Domingo.

The repression by the Francoists began immediately, with the assassination of the director of Union and Labor, Pedro Montero Rubio, and the mayor of Cáceres Antonio Canales González, among others, a total of more than 600 people shot, about 220 during Christmas 1937.

The constitutional governor and mayor were imprisoned and replaced by soldiers; the first, Ignacio Mateos Guija, was shot dead by Falangists and four relatives were thrown into the Tagus River, and the business run by his father was illegally confiscated.

For several months, a training academy for armored vehicle drivers was established in the castles, directed by the German colonel Wilhelm von Thoma.

The Cáceres airfield also had important air movements, from which the aircraft that attacked the Republican forces and the Condor Legion departed.

That day five Soviet twin-engine Tupolev aircraft under the command of Lieutenant Colonel Jaume Mata Romeu, of the Air Force of the Spanish Republic, which had taken off from the Los Llanos de Albacete airfield, dropped 18 bombs, which affected various buildings (such as the Mayorazgo Palace), the food market, Santa María, the back of the Civil Guard barracks, the town hall, and Nido and Sancti Espíritu streets), causing 35 deaths and numerous injuries.

[44] The walls contain a medieval town setting with no outward signs of modernity, which is why many television shows and films have been shot there, including scenes for Game of Thrones and the Spanish series Isabel.

Cáceres is also a member of the Roads Networks of Sefarad, of the Vía de la Plata, being chosen by the Autonomous Community as Cultural Capital of Extremadura Enclave 92, and together with the solidarity effort of The administrations, private companies, official entities and private citizens, aspired between 2003 and 2010 to be European Capital of Culture in the year 2016.

The most crowded are the WOMAD, a world music festival held in the month of May, and the SonoraCC, dedicated to pop, rock and indie national.

Other produce in the Province include sheep's cheese (Torta del Casar, is not made of goat's milk, but with milk from merino sheep), fig cake, chestnuts, hams and other pork products, lamb, olive oil, and paprika (pimentón de la Vera).

Cáceres is also famous for its stews, roast meats (especially pork, lamb and game), fried breadcrumbs (migas), trout, pastries and honey.