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The Port of Santa María is a city and Spanish municipality located in the province of Cádiz and in the autonomous community of Andalucía. It is the fifth most populous municipality in the province and the 15th in Andalusia. It is located to the south of the Iberian Peninsula, in the bay of Cádiz on the banks and mouth of the Guadalete River.

The town belongs, along with Cádiz, Jerez de la Frontera, San Fernando, Chiclana de la Frontera, Puerto Real and Rota, to the Commonwealth of Municipalities of the Bay of Cadiz, and is part of the metropolitan area of ​​the Bay of Cádiz.-Jerez, a polynuclear urban agglomeration of which it forms a part together with Cádiz, Jerez de la Frontera, San Fernando, 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, as of January 1,2017 the population had 88,430 inhabitants. It has a surface area of ​​159 km² and a population density of 555.57 inhabitants / km². It is located at an altitude of 6 m and 22 km from the provincial capital, Cádiz. In its municipal term is part of the Naval Base of Rota. According to the legend, the city was founded by Menesteo, an Athenian king who participated in the Trojan War. When the war ended and he returned home, his throne had been assaulted and he had to emigrate. Navigating without any destination was to stop just at the mouth of the Guadalete River and founded the city, Puerto de Menesteo.

This historical fact took place in 1184 or 1183 a. C, since the Trojan War took place between 1194 and 1184 a. C, approximately about 3,200 years. According to some archaeologists the first Gadir, as the first urban agglomeration or business center, was built in what is now the Castle of Doña Blanca, leaving what is now Cádiz as a sacred site and its subsequent use as an urban center in the s. VII-VI. The city was moved to its current location in Roman imperial times, as a place of Portus Gaditanus. Coinciding with the construction of the new outlet channel of the Guadalete, promoted by Patricio Gaditano Lucio Cornelio Balbo the Younger, around the year 19 a. C.

Placing the Cardum or main street parallel to the new river and perpendicular to the Decumanum in the route of Via Augusta that entered the city by the bridge built on the 'Canal de Balbo' of the Guadalete. The Port of Santa María is known as the City of the Hundred Palaces, although the passage of time and neglect have caused many of these elegant buildings have been practically in ruins. Product of commercial activity with Spanish America or Indies in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries were erected in the town authentic palaces adapted to the needs of large merchants who also received the name of Chargers of the Indies. It has San Sebastián and San Francisco Javier as patron, as patron saint of Our Lady of Miracles. It is the only municipality in Spain and Europe where three prisons are located.

At present, important projects are being carried out in the city, such as the union of both riverbanks and the remodeling of the city center.

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