The unique high area of the Llanos de Cáceres.

 To the southeast of Cáceres, between the capital and the town of Sierra de Fuentes, It stands a wooded area known as the Sierra de la Mosca, which we easily identify as being the highest area of ​​the Llanos de Cáceres.

The Sierra de la Mosca is a mountain range of about 2300 hectares. From east to west,

they form the area with the highest elevations of the Sinclinal of Cáceres, formed by materials

from the Precambrian and Paleozoic. And already in the lowest zone of the southern slope,

limestones of the Carboniferous are located. The Sierra de la Mosca extends along about 8 kms

between Cáceres and Sierra de Fuentes, which includes the Sierra del Portanchito (with the peak

of the same name of 640 m altitude); and the Sierra del Risco (with the highest altitude in The

Risco, 664 m), located between the urban centers of Cáceres and Sierra de Fuentes.

It is important that the environmental value of Cáceres need to be well known. The Sierra de la

Mosca offers a natural scenario of learning, recreation, observation, ... with high values, natural and

anthropological. It constitutes a magnificent sample of Mediterranean ecosystems, more or less

anthropized (transformed by the human being), which It makes Cáceres a unique province capital.

The Sierra de la Mosca overlooks Cáceres from the viewpoint of the sanctuary of the Virgen de la

Montaña, the patron saint of the city, and It’s the best balcony to observe the capital from its 718

meters altitude.