![Stone bridge and Cathedral of Santa María de la Asunción in Coria (Cáceres, Extremadura) Stone bridge and Cathedral of Santa María de la Asunción in Coria (Cáceres, Extremadura)](/export/sites/segtur/.content/imagenes/cabeceras-grandes/extremadura/coria-caceres-catedral-santa-maria-asuncion-s1436452790.jpg_604889389.jpg)
The stone bridge, a civil architecture project from the Renaissance, stands over a riverbed that is dry since 1590, when the Alagón river was naturally diverted from its course as a result of a powerful flood.
Coria's past is Roman and Arab. Its walls, with 20 square towers and four gates, are a magnificent example of Roman defence architecture from the 2nd though 4th centuries, preserving still some of their original funerary steles on them. The 15th-century castle still has its keep standing, as well as the "castillejo", a bastion. The cathedral was built in a variety of styles, given the long time it took to complete, which began in the 15th century in Gothic-Renaissance style. A few kilometres away we find the high seminary, a 17th-century building that preserves the remains of a Roman funeral monument.
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