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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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| 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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