Cádiz Is Ancient

 

The plaza through which we walked from our Convento Hotel, to enter the truly old Cádiz.

Thus we entered streets such as this on our way to the excavations and the Atlantic.

How old is this wall, its name? There were Africans in Cádiz more than likely before the Phoenicians' first arrivals, which were at least by 800 B.C,  People were certainly living there before then, who had worthwhile products to trade, such as gold, silver, iron, tin (which the Iberian Celts perhaps were trading for with Corish Celts), wheat, horses, probably wine, as wine cultivation is so ancient throughout the Mediterranean regions.

The remains (only partially excavated) were discovered in 1980. The theatre, which was likely built during the 1st century BC and was one of the largest ever built in the Roman empire, was abandoned in the 4th century and, in the 13th century, a fortress was built on its ruins by order of King Alfonso X of Castile.