Province
& Villages - Cadiz - Conil
Conil information
History
Conil
has been settled since prehistory times and the colonies established
by the Phoenicians to take advantage of the rich tune fishing
grounds along this area of the coast would later be put to
good use by the Carthagininians who carried on with the dried
fish and tuna industry. Under
the Romans the town became an important port through which
the Via Herculea coastal route connecting Malaga and Cadiz
passed.
After the fall of the Roman Empire, Conil was sucessively
invaded by Vandals, Byzantines and Visigoths followed by the
Muslims who set their sights on this beautiful land in 711
and incorporates it into the territorial division of Sidonia.
Fernando IV granted the village, then known as Huedi Conil,
to the noble Alonso Pérez de Guzmán who is called
"Torre de Guzmán" during two centuries. This
small town on the Costa de la Luz would later become part
of the feudal domains of the Dukedom of Medina-Sidonia until
the feudal estate was abolished.
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