Indian Chief Travel Guides

Cádiz

Cádiz is the capital of the province that spans southward from the Sevilla plains and the western foothills of the Serranía de Ronda to claim the last sweep of the Mediterranean coast. To the west at the Straight of Gibraltar the water merges with the Atlantic and from there carries on, well past Cádiz and Jerez de la Frontera at the edge of the provincial boundary. For 3,000 years the city has served its seafaring purpose, first established as the Phoenician settlement of Gadir in the ninth century BC, before passing into the hands of the Carthaginians and, after the Second Punic War, the Romans, who called it Gades.