page_title: Sanlúcar de Barrameda
section_title: Main sights
hierarchical_section_title: Sanlúcar de Barrameda / Main sights
caption_attribution_description: English: Castle of Santiago in Sanlúcar de Barrameda (Cádiz, Spain). Picture taken from the top floor of Guadalquivir Hotel. Español: Castillo de Santiago en Sanlúcar de Barrameda (Cádiz, España). Foto tomada desde la azotea del Hotel Guadalquivir.
context_page_description: Sanlúcar de Barrameda, or simply Sanlúcar, is a city in the northwest of Cádiz province, part of the autonomous community of Andalucía in southern Spain. Sanlúcar is located on the left bank at the mouth of the Guadalquivir River opposite the Doñana National Park, 52 km from the provincial capital Cádiz and 119 km from Sevilla capital of the autonomous region Andalucía. Its population is 68,656 inhabitants.
  Sanlúcar has been inhabited since ancient times, and is assumed to have belonged to the realm of the Tartessian civilization. The town of San Lucar was granted to the Spanish nobleman Alonso Pérez de Guzmán in 1297.
  Due to its strategic location, the city was a starting point for the exploration, colonization and evangelization of America between the 15th and 17th centuries. Sanlúcar lost much of its strategic value after 1645 due to the disgrace of the House of Medina Sidonia, the general decline of Spain under Charles II, the relocation of the Casa de Contratación to the town of Cadiz in 1717, and the Lisbon earthquake of 1755.
  In the 19th century the economy of the city was converted to viticulture and summer tourism.
context_section_description: Sights include:
  The Castle of Santiago, from the 15th century
  The palace of the Infantes of Orleans and Borbón, which is now used as the City Hall
  Church of Nuestra Señora de la O
  The palace of the dukes of Medina Sidonia, which now houses the municipal archives
  The Convent of Santo Domingo, a 16th-century building
  Las Covachas
caption: Castle of Santiago, Sanlúcar de Barrameda
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