CACERES, capital of the Spanish province described above, about 14m. S. of the river Tagus, on a branch railway from Arroyo de Malpartida, on the North Madrid-Lisbon line, to Merida on the south line. Pop. (192o) 23,563. Caceres, built on a conspicuous eminence on a low east-west ridge, consists of two towns, an old and a new. The old, upper town, with its mediae val palaces, turrets and massive walls, half Roman and half Arab, is dominated by the lofty tower of the Gothic church of San Mateo. The once famous monastery and college of the Jesuits is now a hospital. Steep steps lead down through four gates to the lower, modern town containing the law courts, town hall, schools and the palace of the bishops of Coria (pop. 3,152), a town on the river Alagon. Caceres makes cork and leather goods, pot tery and cloth, and exports grain, oil, livestock, wool, sausages and phosphates from the neighbouring mines. Caceres, of Roman origin, probably occupies the site of "Norba Caesarina."