Cádiz

Cádiz is a city of 124 thousand,¹ within a metropolitan area of 425 thousand,² located on a peninsula along the west side of Cádiz Bay in Cádiz Province of the Andalucía (Andalusia) Autonomous Community of southern España. The city, then called Gades, was an important one for the Senatvs popvlvsve Romanvs (Roman Empire). It was destroyed by the Visigoths (West Goths) in 410 CE but the settlement endured. Al-Khilafah al-'Abbasiyyah al-Islamiyyah (the Abbasid Caliphate) conquered the area in 711 and named the town قادس (Qādis). Castille, one of the kingdoms that joined to form España, in turn conquered the town in 1262. Much of the settlement was destroyed in fires of the late 16th century.³

The tallest structures are pylons that support the electric transmission lines that cross the bay. The Torre (Tower) Tavira II, a telecommunications tower, is next tallest. The tallest buildings are a pair of residential structures, the Torres Bahía (190 feet, 17 stories, 2003).⁴

External references

Overview of Cádiz, Cádiz Province, Anadalucia Autonomous Community, España

Historical maps

Footnotes

1. 2012 figure from the side bar of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C%C3%A1diz, accessed 12/28-30/2015.
2. Francisco Ruiz column for 2008 from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_metropolitan_areas_in_Spain, accessed 12/28-30/2015.
3. The historical sketch is derived from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C%C3%A1diz, accessed 1/18/2016.
4. Information about structures is from emporis.com, accessed 1/18/2016. The pylons were erected in 1960 and are 518 feet high. The Torre Tavira II is 262 feet high and was completed in 1992.
5. Estimate in Tables of the World's Largest Cities, in Tertius Chandler, Four Thousand Years of Urban Growth, 2nd ed. (The Edwin Mellen Press, 1987). It was the largest city in the Iberian peninsula in 100 CE. Chandler does not cite an Iberian city in his tables for 361 or 500 CE.