Cargadores a indias

Indias boots were prosperous merchants who plied their trade with the Americas in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries were Spanish or foreign, but were characterized by similar aesthetic tastes.

Cadiz city retains the imprint of these traders, and 17 points of great historical attractions allow visitors to delve into those years where the Port of Cadiz was a benchmark for the freight of the Indies.

We started our walk in the street of Santo Domingo to reach the Shrine of Our Lady of the Rosary, also called the Church of Santo Domingo, built by the Dominicans of accommodation serving these monks going to or returning from America.

We Sagasta Street to the center and reach the Plaza de la Merced, at the door of Municipal Flamenco Arts Center, where a bronze sculpture by Chano Lobato a flamenco singer who was born in Cadiz in Barrio de Santa María 1927.

We went through the well-known Plaza de San Juan de Dios where the Town Hall is a building in Neoclassical and Elizabethan style, which reflects the splendor that had Cádiz in its trade with the Indies.

The Casa del Almirante is a palatial houses a charger Indies. It was built in the late seventeenth century and belonged to the family of Admiral of the Fleet of the Indies Don Diego de Barrios who spared no expense: the best marbles, twisted columns …

We arrived at the New Cathedral towering above the height of the houses. Work began in 1722, when they had an important Cádiz trade with the Americas. You have to climb the West Tower where you can see the whole city.

From the West Tower in the Plaza de la Catedral, we see the Church of Santiago. In 1564, the Society of Jesus established a College here. In 1596, Cádiz suffered assault and looting by the Anglo-Dutch troops and the College had to reedificarse. Today, only the church. We walked up the street from the Company to the Plaza de las Flores, a busy place of Cadiz, flowers are sold, obviously, but there are also a lot of trade, churrerías where breakfast places for tapas, fish restaurants where you can have fried fish, is the market, the Post Office building … a very lively place. Sleeping on the side, the market. It’s always very interesting to see the market of a city to know her a little better and this market is certainly a luxury. Strolling through these posts with this wealth of fruits, vegetables, fish … so open and cheerful.

We walked up the street to find Women’s Hospital … So Women’s Hospital. In 1598, there was only one hospital in Cadiz, had 20 beds and only 2 of them for women. Being such hangout with Indian trade, was the need for more beds for women dying because they had just portals. Construction began in 1634 what Hospitalito Women are called, but today was built between 1736 and 1749.

The Torre Tavira belongs to one of those typical mansion boots Indies, the Palace of the Marquis of Recaño House. It is a lookout tower of the eighteenth century and has a dark chamber, using mirrors to direct the light, you see the whole city of Cádiz around the tower. A very curious indeed ‘entertainment’.

Broad Street was one of the most important of Cadiz in the eighteenth century, and as the name suggests, it was the widest. It ends at the Plaza de San Antonio. Here are concentrated numerous palaces and unique architecture, as the House of the 5 Guilds, which has a balcony supported on lion heads, neoclassical nineteenth century.

It has in the center a statue of the famous general Nuñez de Arce, hence the name of Plaza de la Mina. In this square is the Museum of Cadiz. When in 1887 the famous Phoenician anthropoid sarcophagus immediately an Archaeological Museum was established to guard was found. He then joined the Fine Arts to be renamed since Cádiz.En Museum Museum of Cadiz is a facility dedicated to puppetry Tia Norica another part of the history of the city with dreams of childhood magic that fills the memories of many.

We go to the Plaza de San Francisco, cheerful and lively, from leaving streets leading to all parts of the old Cadiz.