Conil de la Frontera
Costa de la Luz Details
The Roman brought glory and greatness though
the Via Herculean that united the cities of Malaga and Cadiz. After the fall of
the Roman Empire, Conil was plundered by the Visigoths, the Vandals and the
Byzantines until the arrival of the Muslims in 711AD when the city was made to join
the Cora of Sidonia.
There were no significant developments until 1265, the year in which the
municipality renamed the town due to the victories of the Christian conquest.
The municipality added the name of the border as did other places like Chiclana
, Jerez and Arcos as the border was separating the territories of Muslims and
Christians.
In 1299, King Ferdinand IV granted Alonso Perez
de Guzman Conilena the powers to promote the resettlement of the town and to
the strengthening against attack by building a tower and renaming the town Torre
de Guzman.
People suffered the epidemics of plague and other diseases and fished with fish
traps as the basis of its economy. At the beginning of the sixteenth century
the village life was interrupted by disputes that occurred between two noble
families regarding the tremendously important area of Guzman and the Ponce de
Leon.
The disputes between the nobles and villagers worsened the area and the appalling economic conditions that people lived in and the debts resulting from successive decades however the production of traps increased.
The seventeenth century was the golden age of the population, and it became an economic enclave. In the eighteenth century, the traps begin to decline, as the economy begins to sustain itself through agriculture and livestock.
By the mid-century, a series of disputes arose due to the tax burden on the landowners and villagers that came back to disturb the peace of Conil. Both of these problems and territories that generated money began to fall from popularity as the Napoleonic occupation of the early nineteenth century impacted on their lives.
The people who by then had anti establishment feelings resulted in the appointment of a ombudsman by the Town trustees an ombudsman through which municipalities in the area could interact with the lords of the land owners.
During the twentieth century conventional tourism dropped which impacted on the local economy because the sevillanas families begin to leave the area for summer medicinal bathing waters. Since the 60s Conil has experienced a tourism boom.
Puerto de Conil
Traditionally the economy was fishing and cattle farming, but there is a movement
towards an economy based on the services sector. This move is fuelled largely
due to the tourism developments that have arisen in the coastal city in recent
years.
Conil is situated on a coastal plain
southwest of the
Conil borders the town of
Conil has a prehistoric history and the town was founded by the Phoenicians, who
took advantage of opportunity the sea presented creating fishing traps and
other fishing activities.
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Festivals
The Festivities in honour of Our Lady of Virtues the Patron Saint of the Village is celebrated by a fair held around the 7th to 11th September. Virgen del Carmen is the patron saint of fishermen on the 16th July after a Mass the sculpture of Our Lady is escorted in a procession out to sea with a flotilla of ships from the town.
The Pilgrimage to San Sebastian the patron of the village is held The Sunday closest to January 20 and the saint is moved from the village to the pine forests of Colorado, along with neighbours in carriages and on foot.
The Fair of The Colorado Spring in the first week of June, the horse is the star attraction as well as traditional dishes products of the orchards in the area and the fruits of the field.
The Crosses of May is the day the neighbours
decorate crosses that they make and participate in a contest. The Carnival is
performed with dances and costume contests.
The Easter Processional parades including singing by the participants. The Bonfires
of San Juan where on the The Eve of San Juan the figures are burnt of John and
Jane.
The St. Catherine of Alexandria, Procession
the sculpture of the Saint is carried through the streets of the village.
Gastronomy
Fried fish, stewed pork, Golden rice, Alcauciles with peas, Rosquetes word is a
curiously of Catalan origin. Bocinegro salted, Gold in salt, Squid Conil single
sweet taste in the world, Shrimp cake, Tuna a la plancha or Encebollado.
Attractions
Area Cliff Roche
The Beaches, La Fontanilla, La Fuente del Gallo, the Roqueo, and the Puntalejo
Bateles Blue Flag, The Callas Roqueo and Roche, The Parish of Saint Catherine
of Alexandria, Virgin and Martyr, The Chapel of the Holy Spirit, The Church of
Santa Catalina Mayor, The Crenellated towers of the Coast, The Torre de Guzman,
The Puerta de la Villa, The * La Chanca, The tents in summer, The Museum Conilenas
Estate, The fishing port, The Calle Cadiz, The Shrine of Our Lady Mary Help of
Christians Barrio Nuevo, El Colorado, built in 1931 and renovated in 2006.