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The Holy and Apostolic Church Cathedral of Cádiz is the episcopal seat of the diocese of Cádiz and Ceuta, in Spain. It is a baroque and neoclassical building. It began to be built in 1722 and was not finished until November 28, 1838. The economic crises caused the cathedral to have a varied style, due to the French invasions and the subsequent loss of power over America.
It receives the name of the "Santa Cruz sobre el Mar" or "Santa Cruz sobre las Aguas", although the Cadizians call it the New Cathedral as opposed to the Old Cathedral, built in the 16th century on the old Gothic cathedral commanded build by Alfonso X El Sabio, and that today fulfills the functions of parish church.
It is located in the historic center of Cádiz, almost at the edge of the sea, and is visible from almost anywhere in the city. It has visiting hours both for the interior of the temple and for the Clock Tower. The same entrance to the cathedral is used to access the Cathedral of Cádiz Museum, located in Fray Felix Square, next to the Old Cathedral. In addition to the pieces exhibited in the museum, it has a deposit with other works of interest

The Puerta de Tierra is a redoubt of what was the entrance wall to the city of Cádiz, Andalusia, Spain. Raised in the eighteenth century by Torcuato Cayón, the cover is carved in marble and is conceived more as a religious altarpiece than as a military fortification.
It is one of the most significant monuments of the city that currently separates the Old Town (popularly known as "Cádiz" or "Cádiz Cádiz") and the modern area (popularly known as "Puerta Tierra" or "Extramuros") from the city.

La Caleta is a beach located in the historic center of the city of Cádiz (Andalusia, Spain). It was a natural port where Phoenicians, Carthaginians and Romans anchored.
It is the smallest beach in the entire city, and isolated from the rest. Its main attraction lies in its location, a scenario that has inspired musicians and poets such as Isaac Albéniz, José María Pemán, Paco Alba or Carlos Cano. It is flanked by the castles of San Sebastián and Santa Catalina, in front of the old Mora Hospital, the Faculty of Economic and Business Sciences and next to the Faculty of Labor Sciences of the Campus of Cádiz of the university of the same name, in the middle of the Viña neighborhood . It also highlights its former spa, currently the headquarters of the Underwater Archeology Center of Andalusia.
It has been the scene of several movie films, such as Die Another Day, Alatriste, Manolete and El Amor Brujo.
The Cadizians consider it as one of the most emblematic places of their city, being recurring theme in Carnival couplets.

The Roman theater of Cádiz (Theatrum Balbi ) was discovered in 1980 in archaeological excavations designed to locate the Castle of the Villa. Until then only some of its interior galleries had been seen without identifying which building they belonged to.
From 1980 until now the recovery performances of the Roman theater of Gades have been happening. Currently, it has an interpretation center that is accessed from Calle Mesón, 11-13 (El Pópulo neighborhood), where different areas of the theater, such as the stage, the orchestra, can be observed by wells dug in the ground. or the bleachers of the proedria. In addition, the center offers visitors the chance to see the cave of the theater through large windows, learn about its history through information panels, archaeological remains and an audiovisual showing how this building was. You can access the gallery of the theater through one of its vomitory, excavated under the floor of the Inn of the Inn, a building that is next to the interpretation center. Also, from the gallery you can access through a walkway to a bounded area of ​​the stands. The theater was abandoned in the fourth century AD. C. On its ruins the Muslims built a fortress. In the thirteenth century King Alfonso X The Wise reconquered the city. Today, there are buildings that overlap the theater such as the Municipal Nursery, the Inn of the Mesón, the Casa de Estopiñán and the Casa de Contaduría, constructions that are part of the Pópulo neighborhood that preserves the layout of the old medieval neighborhood on its streets , the walls and three of its doors.
The Cádiz Theater has certain characteristics, which differentiate it from the rest of Roman theaters found to date, such as:

It is the second largest theater in Roman Hispania, surpassed only by Córdoba by a few meters. The diameter of the cavea of the Roman theater of Cádiz is about 120 meters, and its capacity would be around ten thousand spectators, enough if we consider that its population would be around fifty thousand inhabitants.
It is the oldest theater among the known so far of the Peninsula. In fact, it is the second oldest theater in the entire Roman Empire, behind only the Pompey Theater in Rome.
It is one of the few public buildings in Roman Hispania to which such important figures as Cicero or the Greek historian Strabo mention in his works. In a letter from Asinio Polión, then governor of Bética, Cicero says that Balbo, the youngest, founder of the Neápolis, the new city, represented a play written by him in the theater of Gades, which recalled his collaboration with Julio César and that in this same theater made the two-year elections at once, reserved fourteen tiers of seats to the Cadiz knights, rewarded an actor with the ring of the knights and another actor sent him to run for being very ugly.

The University of Cádiz is the public university of the province of Cádiz, in the Spanish autonomous community of Andalusia. It was founded in 1979. It offers 61 degrees, 20,798 students study and 1,698 professors and 2680 administration and service professionals work.
Currently the university is one of the highest institutions in the province of Cádiz, playing an essential role in its economy. Given its open, cosmopolitan nature and its Atlantic projection, it welcomes students from five continents with important exchange agreements with Hispanic, English, Russian and African universities. It is also part of the Erasmus European Program.
Among its peculiar aspects we can highlight the specialization that the university has in the disciplines of marine sciences, nautical sciences and naval engineering. All of them are taught at the Andalusian Higher Center for Marine Studies (CASEM), located on the Puerto Real Campus.
It has a Higher Center for Modern Languages ​​ managed by FUECA (University Enterprise Foundation of the province of Cádiz), where they offer studies in English, French, Italian, German, Moroccan Arabic, Portuguese, Japanese , Russian, Chinese and Spanish for foreigners, in addition to Methodology courses for the Teaching of Foreign Languages ​​as well as various specific language training courses for the staff of the university itself and which maintains programs agreed with numerous universities and national and foreign entities.

The Tavira Tower is a watchtower and the highest point of the old city of Cádiz, 45 meters above sea level. It is located in the House-Palace of the Marquises of Recaño (now the Conservatory of Music of Cádiz), on the corner between Marques del Real Tesoro and Sacramento streets, and was built in the 18th century in the Baroque style. Designated official watchtower of the gaditano port in 1778 for being the high-rise, receives the name of its first lookout, frigate lieutenant Antonio Tavira.
It currently houses the Dark Chamber, one of the most symbolic tourist attractions in the city of Cádiz, as well as two exhibition halls and a viewpoint, from which you can admire the entire historic center of the city.
The Dark Chamber was inaugurated in 1994 and is composed of an optical system that reflects on a white circular screen the scenes that take place outside in real time, during 15-minute sessions. The exhibition halls show through informative panels the development of the city of Cádiz and its history in general and the Tower in particular during the 18th and 19th centuries. You can also admire the original spyglass and the watchman's daily book, as well as photographs of the nineteenth and current centuries that show the changes suffered in the city during the last century.

The Customs Palace, also known as the Diputación Palace, is a building located in the city of Cádiz, Spain. It is located within the neoclassical style, sober and of wide and balanced proportions. It currently houses the facilities of the Provincial Council of Cádiz.

The oratory of San Felipe Neri is a building located in the city of Cádiz, Spain, built in Baroque style between 1685 and 1719. It was in this place where the first Spanish constitution, the Constitution of 1812, was written.

Oratory of the Holy Cave, founded as an oratory for exercisers, this eighteenth-century Cadiz oratory consists of two rooms, a superior or high chapel, of extraordinary richness and luminosity, and another underground or lower chapel of greater austerity and recollection, with a Calvary of Polychrome Wood by Vaccaro and Gandulfo.
In the upper chapel you can see, among other outstanding works, three canvases by Goya: The Holy Supper, The multiplication of the loaves and the fishes and The parable of the wedding of the son of the king, undergoing restoration in the Prado Museum during the year 2000.
The oratory was dedicated to the cult by Bishop Antonio Martínez de la Plaza in 1796, is one of the greatest exponents of religious neoclassical architecture in Andalusia. It is the work of the architects Torcuato Cayón and Torcuato Benjumeda.
The promoter of the oratory, the priest José Saénz de Santamaría, marquis of Valde-Iñigo, enriched the temple with a musical piece that accompanied on the morning of Good Friday, the preaching of the last seven words of Christ. He commissioned this piece to Joseph Haydn, who titled it The Seven Last Words of Our Savior on the Cross.
The Ministry of Culture declared it a National Historic-Artistic Monument in 1981.

This article talks about the region of the Bay of Cádiz. See Bahía de Cádiz for the geographical accident.
The Bay of Cádiz is one of the six regions of the province of Cádiz, in Andalusia. It is formed by the municipalities of Cádiz, Chiclana de la Frontera, Puerto Real, El Puerto de Santa María and San Fernando. It borders the Atlantic Ocean, the Northwest Coast of Cádiz, the Campiña de Jerez and La Janda.

The Cádiz Museum is located in the Plaza de Mina in the city of Cádiz. He met different locations throughout its history, such as Callejón del Tinte or Paseo de Canalejas, settling in its current headquarters in 1935.

The Museum of the Cortes de Cádiz is a historical museum located on Santa Inés de Cádiz street. Born as a reference within the acts carried out in the city to commemorate the First Centenary of the Constitution of 1812, the first in the History of Spain.
The then mayor of the Cadiz capital, Cayetano del Toro and Quartiellers, promotes the purchase in 1909 of two urban estates to create the Iconographic and Historical Museum of the Cortes and Site of Cádiz, which opens on October 5, 1912. In 1947 , the explosion of a navy powder magazine causes serious damage to the museum, which closes until 1964. That year it reopens with the current name. In the 80s and 90s of the 20th century it underwent various reforms; At the moment it is being reformed and improved before the imminent celebration of the Bicentennial of La Pepa.
There are abundant objects of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries mainly: weapons, copies of constitutions, medals, flags, paintings ... One of the jewels of the museum is a model of the city of Cádiz made by the military engineer Alfonso Jiménez in 1777 commissioned by Carlos III, with noble wood and ivory and large size, of high value for the historical and urban knowledge of the capital of Cadiz.

The Supply Square or Central Market of supplies of Cádiz was designed by Torcuato Benjumeda. It consisted of a neoclassical quadrilateral as a Doric porticoed square, located on the plot of the orchard of the Descalzos convent, today Plaza de la Libertad, confiscated in the 1830s.
During the mandate of Ramón de Carranza in 1928, the Sevillian architect Juan Talavera y Heredia carried out the transformation of the supply market. This was a project of the previous mayor, Agustín Blazquez.
Carranza merely provided that the works be accelerated to avoid discomfort, as well as to the improvement of the hygienic conditions of the supply services under the jurisdiction of the city council. The historic market of the Plaza de la Libertad was opened in 1838. For a century there were hardly any improvements.
Juan de Talavera, in charge of the work began on December 11, 1926, respecting the old structure with four-meter Doric columns. Work began abroad. The presence of reservoirs still in use in the place where several of the new foundations had to go caused delays in the execution.
This remodeling was part of a program called "great works" for Cádiz promoted by Ramón de Carranza. This program began with the first stone of the San Rafael street school group and was named after the president of the government, Miguel Primo de Rivera.
These projects were completed with the reform of the Alameda Apodaca, resumption of the monument to the Cortes of Cádiz, post office and the dry dock.
On November 28, 1926, the Diario de Cádiz published the budget for the rehabilitation of the square:

"At 5.30 pm yesterday, the Municipal Permanent met in extraordinary session, called for the opening of specifications presented for the great works planned in the city. The Mayor, Mr. Blazque, presides. The delivery document of the only one is read sheet submitted, which is signed by José Fariña Farreño and Juan Giral y Mimó, who attend the auction of the works and the supply of funds for them that were indicated in the call, with the collaboration of the Empresa General de Construcciones SA El Contestant undertakes to execute the works in the conditions that the contest prevents and that import the amount of 10,607,247.68 pesetas for the reform of the Supply Market ".

Once the work began, the exterior area was completed on November 1, 1927 and the building at the end of 1929.
The mayor hired a veterinarian to control and analyze the quality of fruits and vegetables. For aesthetic and health reasons, sellers were forced to wear white clothing and with sleeves which caused a Carnival tango
Already in the 21st century a deep remodeling was carried out including a restoration area to turn it into a tourist reference

The Old Cathedral of Cádiz, or Church of Santa Cruz, located in the city of Cádiz (Andalusia, Spain) is a construction dating from 1262-1263 and was rebuilt in a Mannerist and Baroque style in the 18th century.

The Fragela house, or as it is traditionally known, the Casa de las Viudas, is a building in Cádiz (Andalusia, Spain) located in the Fragela square, in front of the Falla Theater. The house was paid for and built on the initiative of Juan Clat Fragela, a wealthy merchant of Armenian origin, who gave it up to welcome widows and women without financial resources.
The building dates from the first half of the 18th century and has the architectural features of the Cadiz baroque. It has simple lines with two floors organized around a patio with four bays. The patio floor has arches lowered by Tuscan columns and marbled pillars. On the upper floor there is a small oratory with a Latin cross plan and a nave, whose presbytery is chaired by a neoclassical altarpiece. The nave houses interesting 17th-century baroque paintings, as well as a 16th-century Byzantine tradition table and a collection of baroque copper with scenes from the life of Christ.

Cádiz station is the main railway station in the Spanish city of Cádiz. It is a terminal character station opened in 2002 located next to the Plaza de Sevilla, very close to the city center. It is the head of the C-1 line of Cercanías Cádiz, Medium Distance trains and long-distance trains. .