Habsburg and Bourbon Spain

Plasencia

Today: Spain

Years: 1492–1833
Role: Episcopal city and head of the sexmo of Plasencia

Until the 19th century it was the head of the sexmo of Plasencia, a community of villa and land that came to cover a quarter of the present province of Cáceres. In 1488 its nobles rose against the Zúñiga with the backing of the Catholic Monarchs and the city returned to the crown; Ferdinand the Catholic moved there to live in 1515. In 1653 it bought, with other towns, a vote in the Cortes of Castile, and the old province of Extremadura was born.

What to see today

Catedral Nueva de Plasencia (Catedral Nueva): Cathedral, 1498 to 1578
Palacio Carvajal-Girón: Palace, c. 1551 to 1600

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