Cádiz is a city and municipality of Spain, capital of the homonymous province, in the autonomous community of Andalusia. With 116 979 inhabitants registered in 2018 (INE), it is the most populated city of the Bay of Cádiz and the third in the province after Jerez de la Frontera and Algeciras.
History.
The history of Cádiz is that of a city marked by its strategic military and commercial situation, halfway between the Atlantic Ocean and the Mediterranean Sea. It is one of the oldest Phoenician settlements in the West. Since its founding by the Tyrians, according to the classical tradition eighty years after the Trojan War (1104 a.C), it was a city devoted to the sea and commerce.
Located
The city of Cádiz is located in what is called, geographically, a tómbolo.38 39 40 It is named like this when an island is joined to the continent by a very thin isthmus. In the particular case of Cádiz, this tombolo is not directly linked to the continent, but to what has been historically called the Island of León, where the city of San Fernando is located.
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