Plasencia

Plasencia

Spain
 city, Cáceres provincia (province), in the Extremadura comunidad autónoma (autonomous community), western Spain. It lies on the Jerte River in the Plasencia valley, northeast of Cáceres city. Although there are Roman ruins at Caparra nearby, as well as evidence of Stone Age and Iberian occupations, Plasencia was first known as the Moorish town of Ambroz. When Alfonso VIII of Castile retook it from the Moors in the 12th century, he renamed it Plasencia “that it may be pleasing to God and Man” (ut Deo placeat et hominibus) and built a city wall with 68 towers. An episcopal see, the city has two cathedrals, the older of which displays 16th-century Plateresque architecture with elaborately carved choir stalls by Rodrigo Alemán. The churches of San Nicolás and San Ildefonso contain interesting tombs. Principal industries are tobacco curing, cotton processing, and meat canning. Olive and soybean oil, peppers, figs, and cattle feed are also produced. Pop. (2007 est.) mun., 39,982.

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