Campillo de Deleitosa

Surface term (km2.): 25,6

Altitude: 502

Population: 132 inhabitants

Population located to the feet of the tip of the Risco of the Fat person, 821 meters, and which probably it was born like nucleus in century XVII, date from which he dates his parochial church of San Sebastián, builds of century XVII, although it has received new constructions recently; he presents/displays rubblework equipment and reinforcements of ashlar masonries. He accedes himself to the temple by means of two doors of average point located on the feet of the church and another one in a lateral one. In his interior he presents/displays a divided unique ship in three sections by arcs of average point on leaned pillars.

Enough constructions made in base of popular architecture of this zone can be observed in their streets.

The urban nucleus of Campillo de Deleitosa dates from a relatively modern time, does not mean that his I finish does not reunite vestiges of previous populations, because since we have seen, in the environs and cave of Juan Candilla or of the Ferrerías, prehistóricos.Estos rest have been documented nevertheless, are not only, because in hills of the Col of the Ash, in a limestone place, we found several caves, some with grotto development, that in our opinion offers an extraordinary perspective for the study of stages of old prehistory.

Rarer and dispersed they were the nuclei Roman, or better tardorromanos, reflected in the materials of the Orchards of Cojo, a place where were several consisting of tombs with ajuares ceramic plates and jars, that today can be admired in the display cabinets of the Museum of Cáceres.

The land is fraction, fundamentally as a result of the erosive work practiced by the Descuernacabras throat and streams Castle, Rociguera and Castaño when fitting itself looking for the level of base of the Tajo river.