Looking for day trip ideas close to Caceres

Salamanca may be a bit further, but definitely worth a trip.

I visited all those places last year. We only drove through Monfrague due to the weather, but did make a stop to watch some birds. Los Barruecos has some interesting landscape. Some Game of Thrones scenes were filmed there. It’s an easy drive from Cáceres.

Mérida is nice if you like Roman ruins and has a nice main plaza area for dining and people watching. Trujillo has a nice castle up hill from the main plaza as well as a couple churches. We thoroughly enjoyed the town. If you like monasteries, there’s a UNESCO one in Guadalupe. It is the only thing to see in the very small town. Tours of the monastery are timed entry only and last about an hour. You cannot walk around on your own. It does close for a few hours in the afternoon as does most of the town.

Smaller villages about an hour from Cáceres are Coria that is nice to walk around, Galisteo for its unique river stone town wall, and Oropesa that has a nice castle. An hour in each village is probably enough, maybe a little longer. Plasencia is larger and nice to walk around. One can walk along part of the city’s old walls.

I will add that we spent nights in Plasencia, Oropesa, Cáceres, Trujillo, Guadalupe, and Mérida and did not visit them as day trips.

You have done all of the other ones I did except the Roman bridge at Alcantara (just under one hour drive). It has the history but also an amazing park right adjacent to it full of hiking trails (Parque Natural del Tajo Internacional). Highly recommended!

@valadelphia do you recall the hike you did near Alcantara? Depending on weather conditions would like to hike.

Here is the park website: https://turismotajointernacional.es/en/activities/hiking-in-tajo-internacional/

We just rambled our way to it--right when you walk over the bridge (to the opposite side from the temple) you will see a kiosk of sorts (a signboard with info on the area) and just to the left a trail begins, first on a dirt road. (We use Alltrails to have access to offline location data, and we may have done so that day.) We did a short loop before heading back, if there during a time of intense heat, be careful. I am a plant enthusiast so I really dug this area--Mediterranean as it once was!

Thank you