Province
& Villages - Cadiz - San Roque - Sotogrande
San
Roque information
Guadarranque
The old fishing village takes its name from the river
as it is situated at the river mouth. The original
part of the village founded in 750 B.C. is very close
by at the Carteya Archaeological Site. A large number
of ancient civilisations inhabited this place. It
was also the first Roman colony to achieve the title
from the Senate in Rome. The city was involved in
the 2nd Punic War and the Civil War in which Caesar
and Pompey feuded at the end of the Roman Republic.
Strabo, Pliny and Pomponius Mela wrote about this
city, which even minted its own coins.
Sotogrande
At the beginning of the sixties, Sotogrande was a
large uninhabitated country area consisting of a series
of country estates. In 1964 Joseph McMicking, an American
citizen living in the Philippines, with exceptional
foresight to lay the foundations of what is known
today as one of the best residential tourism areas
in Europe: Sotogrande and its first golf course, Real
Club de Golf de Sotogrande. A year later in 1965 McMicking's
nephew, Enrique Zobel inaugurated the Sotogrande Polo
Club's fisrt polo field, close to Guadalquitón
beach.
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