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| Cadiz
 Guest  2006/8/9 11:06
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Cádiz is the capital of the county of Cádiz (Spain) and it conforms next to the municipalities of San Fernando, Real Port, Santa MarÃa's Port, Chiclana of the Frontier, Broken and the countryside of Sherry of the Frontier the union of the Bay of Cádiz, third populational nucleus of Andalusia and economic one of the most active and industrially, in Andalusia, Spain. He/she knows it to him popularly as the "Cup of Silver."131.812 inhabitants in the last census (63.022 men and 68.791 women) INE (01-01 -2005), being the city with population's from Spain bigger density. It is the only municipality of the Bay of Cádiz whose population diminishes in the last years, because she enters 1995 and 2004 you/he/she has lost more than 14.000 inhabitants. The causes of this circumstance are the peculiar geography of Cádiz, a narrow peninsula surrounded by the sea with a great shortage of floor edificable (to see surface fact in the enclosed square and compare you with that of any other city), impossible to increase before the prohibition of gaining ground to the sea of the new Law of costs.
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| Setenil of the Wine vaults
Guest 2006/8/10 10:14
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Setenil of the Cellars is a town of the county of Cádiz, Andalusia, Spain. In the year 2005 counted with 3.016 inhabitants. Their superficial extension is of 82 km² and he/she has a density of 36,8 hab / km². Their geographical coordinates are 36º 51' N, 5º 11' OR. it is located to an altitude of 640 meters and 157 kilometers of the county capital, Cádiz.It is located in the route of the white towns. The municipality is crossed by the river Trejo.Setenil appears for the first time in times of the Muslim dominance, having been a very difficult square of taking for the Christian; so much that denominated it to him Septem Nihil (Seven times anything). Finally, the day September of 1484, 21 Setenil fell in front of Reyes' Catholics troops directed by Rodrigo Ponce of León, duke from Cádiz and sometedor of most of the mountain gaditana.The population receives letter of privileges in 1501, comparable to those of Seville, but you/he/she is not able to become independent of Ronda until 1630.
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| Cathedral of Cadiz
Guest 2006/8/9 11:08
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The Cathedral of Cádiz you began to build in 1722 and he/she didn't end up to November 28 of 1838.Se are about a Cathedral of big proportions, you began to build according to the architect's project Vicente Steel. I steel he/she left the project in 1739 and position of the works Gaspar Cayón was made passing in 1757 to its nephew Torcuato Cayón. After their death in 1783, Miguel Olive groves happens him/her up to 1790, it dates in the one that begins to direct the work Manuel it Crushes. Finally from 1832 until their finalization the works Juan directs them Daura. In the 116 years that it took their construction, leave the change of style and the likes of the different architects. This great quantity of architects explains the mixture of styles, basically three: Baroque, rococó and neoclassicist. The cover is a conjunction in concave and convex ways, as the movement of the sea. The towers that rise to both sides of the cover culminate in form of astronomical observatory. On the main door they are the patron saints' of the city of Cádiz paths statues, San Servando and San Germán.
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| Chipiona
Guest 2006/8/10 10:12
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Chipiona is a town of the county of Cádiz, Andalusia, Spain. In the year 2005 counted with 17.730 inhabitants multiplying this several times in summery period. Their superficial extension is of 33 km² and he/she has a density of 537,3 hab / km². Their geographical coordinates are 36º 44' N, 6º 26' OR. it is located to an altitude of 4 meters and 54 kilometers of the county capital, Cádiz, between the populations of Rattan and Sanlúcar of Barrameda.Lighthouse of Chipiona:
It is the monument more emblemático of Chipiona, is the biggest lighthouse in Spain and one of the biggest of the world, its height from the base is of approximately 69 meters, it dates of 1867, it is located in the call Tip of the Dog. It was built to avoid that the ships had problems when consenting to the river Guadalquivir and collides with the Stone Salmedina.Our Lady's of Rule of Chipiona Sanctuary
Cruz of the Sea: This located in the marine walk at the end of the street Isaac Pear tree. Wrought iron Cruz on a stone base, their history this related in a badge next to the stairway that goes down to the beach and the following thing prays: "The day November of 1755, first whose date reminds the formidable Earthquake of Lisbon 1755, this village were invaded by the sea and overcoming to the panic its inhabitants took out in procession Sm Christ of the Mercy that was driven to this place before whose presence retired the waters, for perpetual memory of the protection that deserved this village of Ntro. Mr. it was erected in this place a monument that was reedificado in 1878 and renovated in 1910"
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| Sanlucar of Barrameda
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Sanlúcar of Barrameda is a town of the county of Cádiz, Andalusia, Spain. In the year 2005 counted with 63.187 inhabitants. Their superficial extension is of 174 km² and he/she has a density of 363,1 hab / km². Their geographical coordinates are 36º 46' N, 6º 21' OR. it is located to an altitude of 30 meters and 44 kilometers of the county capital, Cádiz. It is located in the outlet of the river Guadalquivir, in front of the National Park of Doñana.Posiblemende been founded by the tartesios. They have been vestiges from a built temple to the goddess Astarté.It is believed that the nucleus Muslim city was located around Seven Torres' Fortress and the Square, called at the moment of the Peace. This strength had as main mission to defend the outlet of the river Guadalquivir. There is, however, few discoveries of the Muslim time. Maybe the most outstanding the discovered arches in Ducal Palacio.It was conquered by Alfonso X in April 1264.El 4 1295 the king Sancho IV promise the dominion verbally from Sanlúcar to Alonso Pérez of Guzmán for their heroic intervention in the defense of the Square of Rate, although the king dies without making effective the dominion.He/she would be the king Fernando IV who it confirmed the donation of "the village of Sanlúcar with all their residents, terms and belongings, and the chests and rights that there he/she had and duty had." The donation privilege was signed in Bull October 13 of 1297.Guzmán the Good one repopulated the city, helping to the repobladores with fiscal advantages. It built walls and towers, fortifying the city. To their death, Sanlucar had transformed into a rich and important dominion.In being able to of Medina's Dukes Sidonia, heirs of Guzmán the Good one, Sanlúcar becomes capital of the dukedom, transforming into financial and mercantile center, for where European merchants happen.Of this port marine expeditions of great importance came out, among them Christopher Columbus third trip, and Magellan's expedition (September 20 of 1519). Also, it was the elected port for Juan Sebastian Elcano to return of the first expedition that gave the turn to the terraqueous globe (1522).
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