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The overthrow of Roman power in Hispania Baetica by the Visigoths in the 400s saw the destruction of the original city, of which there remain few traces today. The site was later reconquered by Justinian in 551 as part of the Byzantine province of Spania.
Its history is marked by its strategic military and commercial location on the Atlantic Ocean and at the entrance to a large sheltered bay. The settlement was founded by Phoenicians from Tyre (modern day Lebanon) following the Trojan War in 1.104 BC.
Traditionally said to be founded as Gadir (meaning “an enclosure”) by Phoenician merchants from Tyre as early as 1100 bce, it was occupied by the Carthaginians about 501 bce. Credence was given to the city’s Phoenician origins by discoveries in 1980 and earlier of Phoenician sarcophagi at two separate sites.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Cadiz was founded about 1,100 years B.C., which makes it not only the oldest city in Europe and but also probably in the western world. Cadiz enjoyed a long (over 3,000 years!) and illustrious history and has been home to many cultures and civilizations – Phoenicians, Greek, Visigoth, Roman, Moorish, Spanish, to name a few.
The city of Cadiz was founded in 1100 B.C. by Phoenician sailors over the ruins of the one that the people of Tyre had built. They built a port and a temple, where supposedly Hercules´ashes were kept.
According to tradition Cádiz was founded eighty years after the Troyan war, sometime during the XIIIth century bC, but the real founding date is probably closer to the XIth century bC when the Phoenicians, in their quest to discover new horizons and conquer new places to foster trade conducted them up till Iberian shores.
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Regarded as the oldest inhabited town in Europe, Cádiz was found as “Gadir” from the Phoenicians at 1.100 BC. The town has a long collection of spectacular beaches and returning visitors rave about the delicious Cádiz fish, amazing monuments and intriguing museums.
