Casares de las Hurdes is a municipality located in Las Hurdes

Las Hurdes

Las Hurdes is a comarca in the Sistema Central, at the northern end of province of Cáceres of Extremadura, one of Spain's seventeen Autonomous Communities.-Description:...

, province of Cáceres

Cáceres (province)

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, Extremadura

Extremadura

Extremadura is an autonomous community of western Spain whose capital city is Mérida. Its component provinces are Cáceres and Badajoz. It is bordered by Portugal to the west...

, Spain

Spain

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. According to the 2006 census

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 (INE

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), the municipality has a population of 582 inhabitants. The town is famous for its drummers (tamborilerus).

First royal visit to Las Hurdes

King Alfonso XIII visited Las Hurdes in 1922 in order to display the concern of the crown for this remote area. Physician and writer Gregorio Marañón

Gregorio Marañón

Gregorio Marañón y Posadillo was a Spanish physician, scientist, historian, writer and philosopher. He married Dolores Moya in 1911, they had four children ....

 accompanied the young king as guide. The king and his retinue lived in military tents planted near Casares de las Hurdes.

During the king's visit a strange incident took place: A local village chief, concerned that the king was drinking only black coffee (a consequence of the king's aides distrusting the quality of the local milk owing to unsanitary conditions in the area) served the king a small jug of milk saying, "Your Majesty rest assured that this milk is totally trustworthy," which turned out to be from his wife who had recently given birth. The king became aware of this fact only after having had his café con leche

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Alquerías

The following alquerías (small settlements of a few houses) are within Casares de las Hurdes' municipal limits (extremaduran names are in brackets):

• Carabusino (Carabusinu)
• Casarrubia (Jurdi)
• Heras (Las Heras)
• Huetre
  Huêtre
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   (La Güetri, pronounced "gwetri")
• Robledo (Robréu)