Cadiz. The white city of Andalusia, Spain

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Land border, always in the game between Iberian and Arab, white, this province of southern Spain has everything a traveler needs to relax. The immaculate whiteness of his ways, a closed architecture balconies, squares, flowers, twisted alleys and fresh, good wine, good food, a beautiful sea, the sun and light and joy in this corner of Spain.
White and shiny from CADIZ, with its mammoth cathedral, oranges from the Mediterranean perfume and swarming night of his people, even down to TARIFA ... last outpost Spanish conquered by King Sancho IV Guzman in 1292 but actually became "Castilian" only the latest. TARIFA is the center of the last hippies Iberian, also white and wonderfully preserved. From the viewpoint of the Castle of Guzman you can see the peaks of the Atlas Mountains, Morocco .. there Africa, as well as saw Santiago, the magical and mythical character of Alquimista by Paulo Coelho.
We return finally to the north, Across the Bay of CADIZ to arrive at Puerto Santa María, home of mega "bodegas" wine sherry for which Jerez and CADIZ are all the famous, the factory with the Osborne bull unmistakable metal, icon and symbol of a region and an entire country over the past twenty years.
From here, the Place of the prisons of Puerto Real, Christopher Columbus sailed on his journeys, the second and fourth. Here we built the famous Santa Maria, the ship of Jose de Cosa, companion insepearabile of Colombo, traveling to the New World.
Here in Puerto everything has some kind of dejavu ... effect is that the architecture of San Jose of Costa Rica, Lima, Bogota, Santo Domingo ... unbelievable how the model was known architectural transported in cities that are equal to the New Continent without apparent difference.
From here began the adventure Columbine, but even here originated from the golden age of this region, poor and without a future ... it was a flash in the pan, of course, but precisely because it is remembered, visited and loved. .

Good journey ..
Andrea