Santa Olalla Hermitage (or Santa Eulalia)
Of Visigothic origin, it is located in the Prado de la Aldihuela and was built by stonemasons from Mérida in the middle of the s. VII.
It is a rectangular building covered with a barrel vault with lunettes and a rectangular apse. Visigoth vestiges can still be seen in the openings with horseshoe arches and in some decorative details.
Santa Lucía Hermitage
Small sacred building, located in the alcor of the same name or Chaplaincy, which consists of a single nave with a wooden roof with three sections separated by pointed arches. The polygonal apse is covered with a star-shaped nose vault. At the foot there is a portico with two semicircular arches and, in the spandrels, three shields of the Ovando, Mogollón and Pereros. It seems to be a construction of the s. XV or XVI.
San Salvador mines
They are formed by a group of six phosphorite seams -Abundancia, Esmeralda, Salvador, etc.-, with a large amount of silica, calcite and clays, which fit into the carboniferous limestones, for which, sometimes, they present very large enlargements because the mineral fills karst cavities.
The phosphates obtained were treated at the Aldea Moret facilities with sulfuric acid, made there from the pyrites of Río Tinto (Huelva), to produce fertilizers (calcium superphosphate).
They were mined in the 20th century, but competition from larger North African deposits with better quality and richer ore caused these mines to close in 1960, long before they were exhausted.
The water that accumulated in the galleries of these mines served since 1968, and for several years, to supply the city of Cáceres prior to the construction of the Guadiloba reservoir.
In the surroundings of the ruins we find on the surface woodlands, curious geological formations due to processes of dissolution of limestone.
Musia pond
Pool-watering hole that, like others that have already disappeared (Charca de los Mártires, La Bala, El Rodeo, etc.), was located in the surroundings of Cáceres next to the most important communication routes. It was previously called “Charca del Espíritu Santo” and the name change was due, according to what is said, to the fact that in its vicinity there was a hostess run by “Uncle Musia”. The neighboring industrial estate and the nearby neighborhoods are also known by that name.
The Vía de la Plata, after leaving CEFOT, would pass through the vicinity of Charca Musia, it would cross the current Medellín highway to continue through the Ermita del Espíritu Santo, Ronda de San Francisco, etc.
La Charca Musia and its surroundings were, until recently, one of the most degraded areas on the outskirts of Cáceres. As of December 2004, it has been the subject of an intervention project for its comprehensive recovery. The Project is included in the “Urban Plan -Calerizo” that also affects Fuente Fría and La Charca del Marco.
