The most important part of its cultural and historical legacy is without doubt the Jewish district, the best example of the Hebraic cultural inheritance in the whole of Spain. The Hebraic community of Hervás settled there in the first decades of the tenth century, moving in from the aljamas (Jewish congregations) of Andalusia and Castile, and living in tolerance with the Christian community. In the Calle de la Amistad Judeo Cristiana, at number 15, is the communal wine press where kosher wine was made. In the Calle Rabilero stands the Sinagoga de Rabí Simuel, the synagogue named after a rabbi and doctor who lived until 1492.

Hervás also boasts a valuable Roman legacy in the form of two single-span bridges: Fuente Chiquita and Santi Hervás. Other buildings to take in are the eighteenth-century Palacio de los Dávila, now housing the Museo Pérez Comendador-Magdalena Leroux, exhibiting the work of the sculptor Enrique Pérez Comendador and of his wife, and the Renaissance Iglesia de Santa María de Aguas Vivas.

This lovely town is surrounding by the leafiest scenery of this part of the Sierra de Béjar. Sweet Chestnut woods abound intermingled with copses of Pyrenean Oak, making the whole area a wonderland for bird watchers. There are also botanical gems in the woods of Hervás; over a dozen orchid species have been found growing here, some very rare and hitherto unknown in these latitudes.

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