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Barrio del Pópulo
Between Plaza San Juan de Dios and the cathedral is the Barrio del Pópulo, the kernel of medieval Cádiz and a focus of the city's recent spruce-up programme, now sporting several craft shops and galleries.
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Cádiz Virtual Siglo XVIII
Within the Museo de las Cortes de Cádiz and open during the same hours is Cádiz Virtual Siglo XVIII where you don a '3D stereoscopic' helmet to take interactive tours of 18th-century Cádiz - gimmicky but fun.
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Castillo de San Sebastián
Sandy Playa de la Caleta separates Santa Catalina from the 18th-century Castillo de San Sebastián. You can't enter San Sebastián but do walk along the airy 750m causeway to its gate.
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Castillo de Santa Catalina
The Castillo de Santa Catalina was built after the 1596 sacking; inside there's an historical exhibit on Cádiz and the sea, and a gallery hosting temporary exhibitions.
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Catedral
Cádiz's yellow-domed cathedral fronts a broad traffic-free plaza. The decision to build the cathedral was taken in 1716, but the cathedral wasn't finished until 1838, by which time neoclassical elements, such as the dome, towers and main façade, had diluted Vicente Acero's original baroque plan. But it's still a beautiful and impressive construction. From a separate entrance on Plaza de la Catedral, climb inside the Torre de Poniente (Western Tower) for marvellous vistas.
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Hospital de Mujeres
The Hospital de Mujeres is an 18th-century women's hospital whose chapel is one of the most profusely decorated churches from Cádiz's golden century and contains El Greco's Extasis de San Francisco (Ecstasy of St Francis).
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Museo Catedralicio
The cathedral ticket admits you to the nearby Museo Catedralicio, with an excavated medieval street and material on the Anglo-Dutch sacking of 1596 alongside cathedral treasures and assorted art.
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Museo de Cádiz
Cádiz's fine major museum faces one of the city's largest and leafiest squares. The stars of the ground-floor archaeology section are two Phoenician marble sarcophagi, carved in human likeness, and a monumental statue of the Roman emperor Trajan, from Baelo Claudia.
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Museo de las Cortes de Cádiz
The Museo de las Cortes de Cádiz is full of historical memorabilia focusing on the 1812 parliament, including a large marvellous 1770s model of Cádiz, made for King Carlos III.
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Oratorio de la Santa Cueva
The Oratorio de la Santa Cueva, a short distance southeast of Plaza de Mina, is a 1780s neoclassical church whose richly decorated oval-shaped Capilla Alta (Upper Chapel) contains three paintings by the inimitable Francisco de Goya.
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Oratorio de San Felipe Neri
The Oratorio de San Felipe Neri is the church where the Cortes de Cádiz met. This is one of Cádiz's finest baroque churches, with an unusual oval interior, a beautiful dome and a Murillo Inmaculada on the altarpiece.
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Playa de la Victoria
This lovely, wide, ocean beach of fine Atlantic sand stretches about 4km along the peninsula from its beginning 1.5km beyond the Puertas de Tierra. On summer weekends almost the whole city seems to be out here. Bus 1 'Plaza España-Cortadura' from Plaza de España will get you there.
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Plaza de Topete
A short walk northwest from the cathedral, this square is one of Cádiz's liveliest, bright with flower stalls and adjoining the large, animated Mercado Central (Central Market).
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Plaza San Juan de Dios
Broad Plaza San Juan de Dios is surrounded by cafés and dominated by the imposing neoclassical Ayuntamiento built around 1800.
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Teatro Romano
On the seaward edge of the Barrio del Pópulo, drop into the excavated Teatro Romano, where you can walk along the gallery beneath the tiers of seating. The remains of the stage are still buried beneath adjacent buildings.
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Torre de Poniente
From an entrance on Plaza de la Catedral you can climb up inside the cathedral's Torre de Poniente for marvellous views over the old city. From here you will see the many watchtowers built in the 18th century so citizens could keep an eye on shipping movements without stepping outside their front doors. Back then, Cádiz had no less than 160 of these watchtowers: 127 still stand and many are now desirable properties, popular with weekenders from Seville.
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Torre Tavira
The Torre Tavira is the highest and most important of the city's old watchtowers (18th-century Cádiz had no less than 160 of these, built so that citizens could observe the comings and goings of ships without leaving home). It provides great panoramas and has a camera obscura projecting live images of the city onto a screen.
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