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San Fernando - named until 1813 as Villa de la Real de León and colloquially called La Isla - is a municipality and Spanish city located in the province of Cádiz, in Andalusia. The town belongs, along with Cádiz, El Puerto de Santa María, Chiclana de la Frontera, Puerto Real and Rota, to the Commonwealth of Municipalities Bahía de Cádiz, and is part of the metropolitan area of ​​the Bay of Cádiz-Jerez, agglomeration polynuclear urban area of ​​which it forms a part together with Cádiz, Jerez de la Frontera, El Puerto de Santa María, Chiclana de la Frontera and Puerto Real, being the third metropolitan area of ​​Andalusia, behind those of Seville and Malaga, and the twelfth of Spain.

According to the INE, the town had in 2016, with 95,949 inhabitants, which makes it the fourth most populated city of the province of Cadiz, behind Jerez de la Frontera, Cadiz and Algeciras, the thirteenth of Andalusia and the sixtieth fifth from Spain. The population density is considerably high, due to the number of inhabitants and its reduced municipal area. Its surface area is only 32 km², one of the lowest in the province. Its geographic coordinates are 36º 28 'N, 6º 12' O. It is located at an average altitude of 8 meters and is approximately 14 kilometers from the capital of the province. Most of the municipality is located in the so-called Isla de León, characteristic for its low altitude, and in which the Cerro de los Mártires and Cerro de Torre Alta stand out for their height. The small Islet of Sancti Petri also belongs to San Fernando. The locality limits geographically with Puerto Real, with Cádiz and with Chiclana de la Frontera.

It is geographically limited with the Caño de Sancti Petri, with the Bay of Cádiz, with the Atlantic Ocean and with the Caño de Río Arillo. The city has two beaches, the Atlantic and sandy Playa de Camposoto, an extensive virgin beach that is the southern end of the municipality, and Playa de la Casería, a small muddy beach located in the waters of the bay, to the north of the municipality. Despite being inhabited since prehistory, as attested by the numerous archaeological sites discovered in the city, it was not until the arrival of the Phoenicians, who built the Temple of Hercules on Sancti Petri Island and introduced such important activities for the city ​​as salting, when a population nucleus settled on the island. From the arrival of this town, which founded the city of Cádiz, begins the dependency of San Fernando in the capital of the province.

Later came the Carthaginians, who continued to worship the temple, the Romans, who established pottery industries and built an aqueduct on which the Zuazo Bridge was later built, access road to San Fernando and, therefore, to Cádiz. The Visigoths and the Arabs, at this time the Castle of San Romualdo was built, around which the future city of San Fernando grew. In the year 1264 the Castilian King Alfonso X el Sabio snatched the region of Cádiz from the Arabs. After the creation of Real Carenero, during the reign of the Catholic Monarchs, a bonanza period began for the town, favored by the commercial exchange with America. The establishment of the Navy was a decisive event for the city, since, due to the arrival of new settlers, it was an important progress for the city, both demographically and economically and culturally.

a good part of the island's monuments: the Royal Institute and Observatory of the Navy, the Arsenal of the Carraca and the Pantheon of Illustrious Marines, among others. During the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries were built other important buildings of the then village: the imposing Town Hall, most of the churches, the Castle of Sancti Petri and the Royal Theater of the Cortes. And it is in the Teatro de las Cortes, at that time called Comic Theater, that the most important event in the history of San Fernando took place, which took place at the beginning of the 19th century, during the War of Spanish Independence: the writing of the first Spanish liberal constitution and the third in the world, the Spanish Constitution of 1812.

During the period from September 1810 to February 1811, while the Isle of León was besieged by the Napoleonic troops and was, together with Cádiz, the only bastion of the Spanish resistance against the invader, met in the Theater of Comedies deputies who prepared the constitutional text that was finally promulgated in Cadiz, and therefore the capital of Spain was located in San Fernando. Thanks to this fact, the town obtained the title of City and the name of San Fernando, in honor of the then monarch Fernando VII.

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