Cádiz, the little silver cup

Monuments, beaches, castles, viewpoints, tapas routes and parks. Hover over a pin to see the place card and click to open its page.

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• 🏛️ Monuments Cádiz Cathedral (Santa Cruz) The “New Cathedral”, with its golden dome facing the Atlantic, took over a century to build and is the symbol of the city.
• 🏛️ Monuments Gran Teatro Falla The neo-Mudéjar theatre on Plaza de Fragela, heart of Carnival: home of the COAC group contest.
• 🏛️ Monuments Roman Theatre of Cádiz (Theatrum Balbi) The 1st-century BC Roman theatre, found in 1980 beneath the Pópulo quarter, among the largest in Hispania.
• 🏛️ Monuments Monument to the 1812 Constitution (La Pepa) A 1912 monument on Plaza de España recalling the Cortes of Cádiz and the 1812 Constitution, “La Pepa”.
• 🏖️ Beaches La Caleta Beach The old town’s best-loved beach, between two castles, famous for its sunsets and the La Palma spa-house.
• 🏖️ Beaches La Victoria Beach Cádiz’s big city beach: almost three kilometres of fine sand with a promenade, beach bars and facilities.
• 🏖️ Beaches Santa María del Mar Beach (Playita de las Mujeres) A calm city beach by the promenade, known as “the women’s beach” and well sheltered from the Levante.
• 🏰 Castles and Bastions San Sebastián Castle A fortress on an islet at the end of a long causeway into the sea, with Cádiz’s lighthouse at its tip.
• 🏰 Castles and Bastions Santa Catalina Castle A star-shaped bastioned fortress, built after the English sack of 1596 beside La Caleta.
• 🏰 Castles and Bastions Candelaria Bastion A bastion of the city walls beside the Alameda, with sea views and an exhibition space.
• 🔭 Viewpoints and Towers Tavira Tower and Camera Obscura Cádiz’s official watchtower since 1778, with a camera obscura that projects the city onto a screen.
• 🔭 Viewpoints and Towers Alameda Apodaca Viewpoint and Promenade The garden promenade facing the bay, with benches, mature trees and sunsets over the sea.
• 🍤 Tapas Routes Tapas Route through La Viña (Calle Virgen de la Palma) The seafaring, Carnival-loving quarter par excellence: taverns, fried fish and shrimp fritters.
• 🍤 Tapas Routes Central Market and Food Corner The neoclassical market by Torcuato Benjumeda, with fresh fish and a food corner for tapas.
• 🍤 Tapas Routes Tapas Route through El Pópulo and Plaza de San Juan de Dios The medieval Pópulo quarter and the town-hall square, with terraces and taverns steps from the port.
• 🌴 Parks and Gardens Parque Genovés Cádiz’s historic garden facing the Atlantic, with a lake, an artificial waterfall and exotic trees.