Founded around 3,000 years ago by the Phoenicians, Cádiz is the oldest city in the West. The different peoples that settled here throughout history left a cultural imprint, whose influence still endures and which is well worth knowing. On the Andalusian Atlantic coasthas managed to preserve an important historical legacy fruit of its commercial importance, along with excellent beaches and exquisite regional cuisine. In this way, it offers a multitude of plans that combine culture and leisure, perfect for crossing them off the list on rainy days.
Cave-catacombs of the Beaterio
Founded in 1633, this beguinage was a place where 12 sisters lived in community under the obedience of an Elder Sister. After the march of the Beatas, a company was set up in this building that taught women at risk of exclusion the art of sewing, but years later, the entire building was demolished except the lower pantheon, which was the place of burial of the old Order of Beatas. Mid-nineteenth century, a new residential building is built in which the catacombs were preserved, reusing them for a new use. It is known that the place was used until 1947. During the Civil War, a group of residents of the building hid in the small hole located on the lowest level of the place.
Tapas in the Central Market
Torcuato Bejumeda proposed a neoclassical quadrilateral plaza enclosed by the Doric portico for this market located on the grounds of the Descalzos convent (today Plaza de la Libertad and expropriated in the 1830s). A historic market that was inaugurated in 1838. In 2009 it reopened its doors after three years of extensive renovation. It has fruit and vegetable stalls, fish, crustaceans and molluscs, meat, bread and pastries, olives… and a cafeteria on the first floor. In addition, every day of the week the Gastronomic Corner is organized, a place where it is possible toTaste the typical products of La Gaditana, national and international cuisine.
Gadir Archaeological Site
The city of Gadir was one of the oldest Phoenician settlements in the West, going back to the first quarter of the first millennium before the common era. The scarcity of architectural remains of the Phoenician settlements in the Mediterranean make the Gadir site an essential place for discovering the ways of life of the disappeared Phoenician culture. It is divided into different levels, in which the layout of the streets, the houses and the tools of the 9th century BC can be distinguished. Eight houses distributed in two terraces are preserved and the axis of the visit revolves around the figure of Mattan, a Phoenician who died during a great fire and of which some remains form an important part of the itinerary.
Cover photo | Jordi Vich Navarro
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