Habsburg and Bourbon Spain

Cádiz

Today: Spain

Years: 1492–1833
Role: Port of the Indies, provincial capital

Cádiz was the great port of the Indies: Columbus sailed from here on his second voyage, in 1493, in 1509 it won the right to register the ships of the Indies, and in 1717 it received the Casa de Contratación, which had been in Seville. It suffered the Anglo-Dutch sack of 1596, had 71,080 inhabitants in 1787 and withstood the French siege of 1810 to 1812. From the period survive the new cathedral, the oratory of the Santa Cueva and the Cárcel Real.

What to see today

Catedral de la Santa Cruz de Cádiz (Catedral Nueva): Cathedral, 1722 to 1838
Castillo de San Sebastián: Fort, 1706
Iglesia de Santa Cruz (Catedral Vieja): Church, 1597 to 1602
Oratorio de la Santa Cueva: Church, 1771 to 1796
Convento de Nuestra Señora del Rosario y Santo Domingo (Convento de Santo Domingo): Church, 1645 to 1666
Castillo de Santa Catalina: Fort, 1597 to 1693
Casa de Iberoamérica (Cárcel Real): Public building, c. 1794 to 1836

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