Jaraicejo

Jaraicejo stood beside a crossing of the Almonte that mattered to the movement of people and livestock through Extremadura. The bridge now called the Puente del Cardenal was built in stages. Its first section dates to the fifteenth century and the patronage of Bishop Juan de Carvajal of Plasencia.

In 1493 the Catholic Monarchs ordered repairs. The Mesta offered 20,000 maravedíes towards the work, with the remaining cost to be shared among neighbouring councils and landholders who used the crossing. This participation reflected the bridge's importance to migrating sheep along the Cañada Real Leonesa Occidental. A seventeenth-century addition supplied six further arches, giving the bridge its extended form. Its construction and repairs joined episcopal patronage, royal orders and the practical needs of pastoral traffic.