Una muestra de imágenes sorprendentes de cadiz :
Atardecer en Cádiz
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Foto tomada desde el Campo Sur.
La ciudad de Cádiz es un municipio español situado en la provincia de Cádiz, en la comunidad autónoma de Andalucía, en el extremo suroccidental de la Europa continental. Es la capital de la provincia homónima y una de las dos ciudades principales del área metropolitana de la Bahía de Cádiz-Jerez, tercer núcleo poblacional de Andalucía y uno de los más activos económica e industrialmente, en Andalucía, España. Además, conforma junto a los municipios de Chiclana de la Frontera, El Puerto de Santa María, Jerez de la Frontera, Puerto Real, Rota y San Fernando la Mancomunidad de Municipios Bahía de Cádiz.
Fuente: Wikipedia, la enciclopedia libre
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view from Cádiz Cathedral
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An hour and a half north-west of Tarifa lies Cádiz, the oldest city in the western world. It is thought that a Phoencian trading post, Gadir, was located here 3100 years ago.
Factoids about Cádiz:
1. The city is an island on the shore of south west Spain, linked to the mainland only by a long ribbon of land no wider than the road that runs along it.
2. 1587: Drake “singed the King of Spain’s beard” by sailing into the harbour and sinking the fleet that King Philip II had assembled there. Two years later the Duke of Medina Sidonia, inexperienced and quite unfitted for command, led a great armada from Cádiz and the Tagus on the disastrous Enterprise of England.
3. 1596: the British, gentlemen to the core, sacked the city.
4. 1700s: Columbus sailed from Cádiz on his 2nd and 4th voyages of discovery. Plunder from South and Central America made Cádiz one of the richest cities in the world.
5. 1805: Not far from Cadiz lies Cape Trafalgar, where Admiral Lord Nelson defeated Admirals Gravina and Villeneuve in the last great sea battle of the age.
6. 1810 to 1812: Napoleon shelled the city from El Puerto de Santa Maria.
7. 1812: Spain’s provisional government declared the country’s first Constitution here.
8: 1895: after 116 years, the Cathedral was finally completed. Its architecture is a mixture of baroque, rococo and neoclassical, forming an odd and ungainly building of erratic stone blocks, capped by a tiled golden cupola. Inside the cathedral, the visitor is protected from falling debris by a giant net that stretches across the entire interior.
This picture is taken from the bell-tower of the Cathedral.
Cádiz
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