[CÁDIZ] Sea & Sun

The history of Cádiz since its origin has been linked to the sea, since the arrival of the Phoenicians, a civilization of great navigators and merchants, with important episodes of its history strongly related to its geographical location and strategic position under the protection of the security provided by the defensive system of the city and the location of its port, which led to the rise of maritime trade in the seventeenth century that reached its peak splendour in theeighteenth century.

For this reason the name of the one of the four official tourist routes in the city of Cádiz is ‘Shipper to the Indies’.

This walk takes in the houses and watch towers of the shippers to the Indies, the bourgeois merchants that traded with the New World.

By this walk, it is possible to discover the golden age of Cádiz in the 17th and 18th century, when the ‘Casade Contratación’ or House of Trade with the Indieswas moved to the city from Seville.

At present the link with the sea exists, which justifies interventions at the level of infrastructure such as the construction of the second bridge of the city,the Bridge of the Constitution of 1812, as well as the economic dependence of the city.