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Oliva de Plasencia (turnoff)
Private (15, 20€) Albergue Turístico San Blas, with the Ayuntamiento at your back, cross the square and take the street to the left, then right and right again, it's there on the right, on Calle Real. Kitchen. Tel 647 563 450 or 947 563 450
Casa Rural Vía Caparra on Calle Torre. Singles 30€, doubles 40€. Website www.viacaparra.com Tel 640 992 243 They may collect from Ventaquemada or Cáparra.
Shop beside the Casa Rural, café, pharmacy beside the Ayuntamiento.
Bar Cáparra does very expensive food. It's at the eastern edge of the village in a low building, easy to miss.
From Oliva de Plasencia you can follow a quiet road which will take you to Cáparra in 6.4km (signposted).
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