CACERES, the capital of the above province, on the left bank of the Tagus, on a ridge of hills which stretch from east to west, 24 miles west of Truxillo. It is the residence of the Bishop of Coria, and contains a handsome episcopal palace. The monastery and college of the Jesuits was one of the finest in the kingdom, but has been secularized and converted into an hospital. It has a public school, a college with professorships of grammar, rhetoric, mathematics, philosophy, moral and scholastic theology, &c., a founding hospital and several other charitable institutions. In the neighbourhood are large gardens, well cultivated fields, and extensive pasture grounds; while in the town are numerous oil and fulling mills, soap-works, and lime-kilns. It occupies the site of the ancient Castra Cæcilia, and was a place of some importance both under the Romans and the Moors. Pop. 12,051.