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Only 40 Kms away from Costa Ballena is located  Cadiz,  standing on a peninsula jutting out into a bay, and  almost entirely surrounded by water. The old city looks quite Moorish in appearance and is intriguing with narrow cobbled streets opening onto small squares. It was named Gadir, by the Phoencians, who founded their trading post in 1100 BC, and it was not  until  the early 16th century  when it attained great splendour in the early  as a launching point for the journey to the newly discovered lands of America.  In the early 19th century Cadiz became the bastion of Spain's anti-monarchist, liberal movement, as a result of which the country's first Constitution was declared here in 1812. Some of the city's 18th century walls still stand, such as the Landward Gate. The old, central quarter of Cadiz is famous for its picturesque charm, and many of the buildings reflect the city's overseas links.

Places worth to visit in Cadiz:
The city's Cathedral
Churches of Santa Cruz and San Felipe Neri, which is famous throughout Spain as the place where, in defiance of Napoleon's siege, the provisional government was set up with its own liberal Constitution.
La Santa Cueva, home to several paintings by Goya
Casa del Almirante and Casa de las Cadenas.