TRAVEL GUIDES DIRECTORY: CADIZ SPAIN BARBATE

HISTORY

The Barbate landscape is quite modern and does not hold that classic Andalusian feel to it. However, Barbate history has a few interesting points too.

From the Phoenicians who taught ancient Barbate dwellers to fish, the port of Baesippo established during the Roman period became a flourishing fishing and fish salting center. The following Muslim rule gave this town the name of 'Barbat' that would later evolve to the present designation.

Although taken over by Fernando III in 1250, the Muslims would still be in control of the town until Alfonso X came for the final conquest. In the 13th century, Barbate was still dependent on adjoining bigger town Vejer de la Frontera, but were both later handed to the Duke of Medina, Sidonia Don Alonso Pérez de Guzmán. With increasing tensions around the coasts, Barbate needed protection, which lead to the construction of the Santiago castle--a building of defense in the 16th century as well as a series of other defense stations along the coast, as ordered by Felipe II.

In 1805, the famed battle of Trafalgar where the English defeated Spanish & French regiments, took place around Barbate coasts.

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