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<< Our Photo Pages >> Portus Gaditanus - Ancient Village or Settlement in Spain in Andalucía

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Multi-periodSite Name: Portus Gaditanus Alternative Name: Ciudad Fenicia de Doña Blanca
Country: Spain Region: Andalucía Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Nearest Town: El Puerto de Santa María
Latitude: 36.627920N  Longitude: 6.16053W
Condition:
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3Reasonable but with some damage
2Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site
1Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks
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5Can be driven to, probably with disabled access
4Short walk on a footpath
3Requiring a bit more of a walk
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1In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find
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Portus Gaditanus
Portus Gaditanus submitted by Maatje : Enclave Arqueológico Doña Blanca site in Andalucía Spain Jerez de la Fronteira. Part of the village 800BC the buildings near the harbour (Vote or comment on this photo)
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Portus Gaditanus
Portus Gaditanus submitted by Maatje : Enclave Arqueológico de Doña Blanca or Yaciemento Arqueológico de Doña Blanca site in Andalucía Spain Jerez de la Fronteira. Part of the village 800BC The remains of the wall of the harbour in the Guadalete River 800BC connected to the open sea. Doña Blanca was situated at the Guadalete River as a harbour trade center connected to Cadiz and the hinterland of the mining ar... (Vote or comment on this photo)

Portus Gaditanus
Portus Gaditanus submitted by Maatje : Enclave Arqueológico Doña Blanca site in Andalucía Spain Jerez de la Fronteira. Part of the village 800BC near the harbour. This is the mainstreet. (Vote or comment on this photo)

Portus Gaditanus
Portus Gaditanus submitted by Maatje : Enclave Arqueológico Doña Blanca site in Andalucía Spain Jerez de la Fronteira. Part of the village 800BC The remains of the wall of the harbour in the Guadalete River 800BC. Doña Blanca was a harbour trade center connected to Cadiz. This city was there at least 800BC, was at least 7ha large, had its own necrópolis, craftsmen, defensive structure of 4 round towers and wa... (Vote or comment on this photo)

Portus Gaditanus
Portus Gaditanus submitted by Maatje : Enclave Arqueológico Doña Blanca site in Andalucía Spain Jerez de la Fronteira. Part of the village 800BC with the cooking place (Vote or comment on this photo)

Portus Gaditanus
Portus Gaditanus submitted by Maatje : Enclave Arqueológico Doña Blanca site in Andalucía Spain Jerez de la Fronteira. Part of the village 800BC

Portus Gaditanus
Portus Gaditanus submitted by Maatje : Enclave Arqueológico Doña Blanca site in Andalucía Spain Jerez de la Fronteira. Part of the defensive structure

Portus Gaditanus
Portus Gaditanus submitted by Maatje : Enclave Arqueológico Doña Blanca Jerez de la Fronteira Andalucia Part of the oldest Defensive structure 800 BC.

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Re: Portus Gaditanus by Maatje on Sunday, 05 February 2023
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The acces is good,
THe condition is good,
it is well signposted and
accessible in a wheelchair.
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Re: Portus Gaditanus by Maatje on Sunday, 05 February 2023
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Yacimiento Arqueológico de Doña Blanca
Or
Enclave Arqueológico Doña Blanca


This large site is site excavated between 1979 and 1995 where the remains of walls, dwellings, a Punic river port (the largest in the Mediterranean[2]) and a necropolis were found, belonging to a Tarterian - Phoenician city whose occupation dates from the 8th to the 3rd century BCE. Together with Cadiz and the Cerro del Castillo (in the municipality of Chiclana), it is therefore the oldest Phoenician city found so far in the Iberian Peninsula and is therefore of exceptional importance in the panorama of Phoenician colonization in the western Mediterranean.


Its exceptional degree of preservation (the only Phoenician city intact to date[5]) makes the site a key piece for future research on the settlement of the Phoenicians in the Bay of Cadiz and their relationship with the indigenous peoples of Lower Andalusia. Among other things, it contains one of the oldest cellars in the world, preserved in its entirety[6].


On this site stands the castle of Doña Blanca, so named because, according to tradition, Doña Blanca de Borbón was imprisoned here. It is a tower built in the 14th or 15th century to watch over the Bay of Cadiz and was also used as a hermitage.


The oldest remains found in this enclave date to a late Copper Age phase, toward the end of the 3rd millennium B.C. This period includes a few scattered huts that adapted to the original topography of the site. Then there was a phase of neglect - during which the site remained uninhabited - that lasted until the mid-8th century B.C., when it was inhabited again.


In the 8th century BC it became a proper city, with a wall, which remained uninterruptedly inhabited until the end of the 3rd century BC. During these five centuries of continuous life, the city underwent several urban conversions and the construction of two more walls. The site was again abandoned from the end of the 3rd century BC until the medieval Islamic period, when an Almohad farm was established there (12th century).


Of all the areas that make up the archaeological zone of Doña Blanca, the Enclave is the only one that can be visited today. The route of the visits is a circular route, about 1600 m long, which runs along the upper part of the hill and takes us through different areas of the enclave.


The tower of Doña Blanca

Castle of the Sierra de San Cristóbal.

It is a small building with a Greek cross that was built in the late 15th century as a pre-eminent lookout tower over the bay and the lower reaches of the Guadalete River. What we see today is the result of a reconstruction in the second half of the 19th century, as the tower lay in ruins after the Spanish War of Independence. A modern historiographical interpretation identifies this tower as the place where Doña Blanca de Borbón, wife of Pedro I, was held prisoner and died (1361), hence the name by which it is now known. Other scholars identify the building as a hermitage.


The landscape

Over the centuries, the surroundings of the San Cristóbal Mountains have lost their original features and, as a result, the current environment looks very different from that of the first settlers. One of the main transformations was the silting up of the bay by sedimentary contributions carried by the Guadalete River. The entire plain extending south of the site was once sea and the mouth of the river was near El Portal, almost on the foothills of the borders of the municipalities of Jerez de la Frontera and El Puerto de Santa María. The natural vegetation has adapted over the years to the changing climatic conditions, soil, relief and rainfall. But it has been man throughout history who has changed the natural vegetation of the area in the most remarkable and lasting way, mainly through tree felling, grazing and agriculture, so that today t

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