Editing Cáceres, Spain (section)

===Evolution from town to city===
[[File:Caceres - Ayuntamiento.JPG|thumb|upright=1.25|Cáceres City hall, located on the Plaza Mayor]]
In 1790 a decisive event occurred in the history of Cáceres that made it evolve over time from a simple town to a city with regional importance: [[Charles IV of Spain|Charles IV]] established there the headquarters of the Royal Court of Extremadura, the highest judicial body of the region.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Granjel |first1=Mercedes |title=Médicos y cirujanos en Extremadura a finales del siglo XVIII |journal=Dynamis |date=2002 |volume=Acta hispanica ad medicinae scientiarumque historiam illustrandam 21 |pages=151–187 |issn=0211-9536 |url=https://www.ugr.es/~dynamis/completo22/PDF/dyna-6.pdf}}</ref> Numerous officials and professionals from very different places in Spain began to settle in the town, which increased the weight of the local bourgeoisie. At the beginning of the 19th century, merchant neighborhoods could already be distinguished in the Old Town extramuros (outside the walls), with their houses located in the Plaza Mayor and in several streets in its surroundings such as Barrionuevo, Empedrada, Parras, Pintores and Santo Domingo.{{sfn| Hernández Bermejo|Santillana Pérez|2010|pp=107-120}}

The judiciary was not the only public sector that provided urban character at that time: the defective division into provinces of the Crown of Castile caused many enlightened people to demand the division of Extremadura into two provinces, which benefited Cáceres by establishing itself as the provincial capital. In 1810, the French tried to create the prefecture of Cáceres during the [[Peninsular War]], with limits similar to those of the current province. Ten years later and during the [[Trienio Liberal|Liberal Triennium]] in 1822 the province of Cáceres was created with its capital in this town.{{sfn|Martínez Díez |1983|pp=94-104}}