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Cádiz is the provincial capital with the highest rate of unemployment in Spain. This, too, tends to depress the population level. This, too, tends to depress the population level. Young Gaditanos, those between 18 and 30 years of age, have been migrating to other places in Spain ( Madrid and Castellón , chiefly), as well as to other places in ...
As the major city in the area, Gijón is known as the "capital of the green coast". Many cities and towns in Spain are popularly known by various nicknames. This list compiles the aliases, sobriquets and slogans that cities in Spain are known by (or have been known by historically), officially and unofficially. [1] [2]
Its capital is the city of Cádiz, which has a population of 114,244. As of 2021, the largest city is Jerez de la Frontera with 212,801 inhabitants. Algeciras, which surpassed Cádiz with 122,982 inhabitants, is the second most populated city.
Jerez has had a railway line since 1854, which was one of the first in Spain, the Alcázar de San Juan–Cádiz railway. The line went between Jerez and El Puerto de Santa María and transported wine barrels for export. Jerez de la Frontera railway station is used by more passengers than Cádiz and is the fourth busiest in Andalucia.
An international conference of monarchist powers, the Congress of Verona, in October 1822, deputized France to secure Ferdinand's release and restore absolutism in Spain. The invading French army, known as the Hundred Thousand Children of St. Louis (France's patron saint), took Madrid, and, on 7 April 1823, laid siege to Cádiz from positions ...
Particularly noteworthy is the so-called Rock Art of the extreme south of the Iberian Peninsula, called in the Andalusian context Arte sureño ("Southern art"). [6] In the Caves of Nerja located in the town of Maro, municipality of Nerja ( Málaga ), have been dated some seal paintings that could be the first known work of art in the history of ...
A province in Spain [note 1] is a territorial division defined as a collection of municipalities. [1] [2] [3] The current provinces of Spain correspond by and large to the provinces created under the purview of the 1833 territorial re-organization of Spain, with a similar predecessor from 1822 (during the Trienio Liberal) and an earlier precedent in the 1810 Napoleonic division of Spain into ...
Seville: capital Seville, also including Cadiz, Cordoba and Huelva. Valencia: capital Valencia, also including Albacete, Alicante, Castellón and Murcia. Vascongadas: no capital defined. The capital would be chosen among the member provinces, which are Álava, Gipuzkoa, Navarra and Biscay.