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Chipiona is a town and municipality located on the Atlantic coast in the province of Cádiz, Spain. According to the 2012 census, the city has a population of 18,849 inhabitants, but this amount increases greatly during the summer holiday period. The town covers an area of 33 km². Being in the lower valley of the River Guadalquivir it is very flat with a maximum terrestrial height of 4 metres. It is bordered on the north-west by Sanlúcar de Barrameda and on the south-east by the port of Rota.

Chipiona
Municipality
Coast of Chipiona with the lighthouse at background
Location of Chipiona
Chipiona
Location in Andalusia
Coordinates: 36°44′N 6°26′W
Country Spain
Autonomous community Andalusia
ProvinceCádiz
ComarcaBajo Guadalquivir
CommonwealthMunicipios del Bajo Guadalquivir
Government
  AlcaldeAntonio Peña Izquierdo
Area
  Total32.92 km2 (12.71 sq mi)
Elevation
4 m (13 ft)
Population
 (2018)[1]
  Total19,068
  Density580/km2 (1,500/sq mi)
Demonym(s)Chipionero, ra
Time zoneUTC+1 (CET)
  Summer (DST)UTC+2 (CEST)
Postal code
11550
Sanctuary of Our Lady of The Rule, Chipiona.
Sanctuary of Our Lady of The Rule, Chipiona.

It is the town of birth of singer Rocío Jurado and where her body now rests.

Chipiona is also home to the tallest lighthouse in Spain and the third tallest lighthouse in Europe. The town is also well known for several varieties of Moscatel.


Places of interest



History



Antiquity


According to the geographers Strabo (Strabo, III, 1, 9) and Pomponius Mela (Mela, III, 4), of Ancient Greece and Rome respectively, a lighthouse existed at the mouth of the Guadalquivir River called Turris Caepionis. This was probably because it was built on the orders of the Roman Consul Quintus Servilius Caepion or his successors. The lighthouse marked a dangerous place for shipping and the opening of a navigable river, the Guadalquivir. Chipiona takes its name from the Roman Consul Caepion.

This area has also been identified as the site of the legendary Ars Gerionis, the tomb of Geryon, which stood at the end of a narrow cape that jutted into the sea, probably in what is now a reef known as the Stone of Salmedina, near Salmedina, or just Salmedina. These claims are based solely on the evidence of the literature and Roman archaeological findings dating from the second century B.C.


Middle Ages


Legend relates that the disciples of St. Augustine in Africa, fleeing the invasion of the Vandals, came by sea to Chipiona with the image of the Virgin of Regla. Tombstones have been found near the Shrine of Our Lady of Regla from the time of the Visigoths. After the islamization of the Iberian Peninsula in 711, according to tradition, the hermits hid the image in a cistern about thirty paces from the citadel, now a monastery. The picture remained hidden in a religious of the Order of St. Augustine until it was found in the 14th century, according to legend, following a revelation from heaven. A Shrine to Our Lady of Regla was built around the cistern.

In 1251 Chipiona was conquered by King Ferdinand III, and again more definitively in 1264 by his son Alfonso X the Wise. In 1297 King Ferdinand IV granted Guzman el Bueno, founder of the House of Medina Sidonia, the Lordship of Sanlúcar, to which Chipiona belonged.

In 1303 the eldest daughter of Guzman el Bueno and Maria Alonso Coronel, Isabel Perez de Guzman, Fernan married Ponce de León, receiving as a dowry the towns of Rota and Chipiona, thereby becoming independent both of the Lordship of Sanlúcar and joining the possessions of the Ponce de León family, germ Arcos House.

Castle of Chipiona.
Castle of Chipiona.

Modern Age


In 1755, Chipiona was severely hit by the tsunami that was caused by the Andalusian and Portuguese Atlantic coast Lisbon earthquake. The effects of the tsunami came to town about an hour after the earthquake, killing four people and leaving flooded streets and beaches, estimating the actual damage to 238 815.

He pulled in procession the image of Christ of Mercy to request the withdrawal of the waters, procession that is repeated every year on November, from the chapel that bears the name of Christ to the Cross the Sea.

Earthquake Narration by the Community of the Holy Convent of Nuestra Señora Santa María de Regla, on December 6, 1755

In the aforementioned November 1 was not noticed any news from sunrise until 10 day time to be serene, and peaceful day, still and calm sea, North Wind insensitive. But, being as 10am, being this Community as high choir solemnly singing the third hour, she began to feel that the choir, and the church with strange swaying motion and this, as noticeable in the view, that lectern, church lamps, candlesticks from the altar, and all the temple shook and moved to a crib mode, from one side to another side, looking to the North and South.

Advirtióse be a terrible earthquake, and although all the relevant cause fright, and entered the desplomase suspicion that the whole building, which [is] of stone, over us all, lacked the freedom to forsake the choir, tied up all of one impulse, and full of confidence safer Patronage of Our Holy Image, which was patent to the eye in its majestic throne. At the point we bow all knees, and straining our devotion, we continue with the canonical time more consistently.

It would last the tremor as ten to twelve minutes, knowing the land restitution made her pause, and natural stillness, came the Community to take their seats, each recognizing the Divine Mercy, and the patronage of Our Lady of Rule, Our Lady, we escaped the threatening havoc with such happiness that is not the least harm experienced in all areas of the convent.

Cantóse conventual Mass without the least suspicion, and concluded, was sung the sixth hour on the end of it, it would be like the 11 and fourth, there was a terrible roar of the sea, and found to be elevated both waves, violently throwing water on said bastion, and on the cliffs of the convent, were overwhelmed by a gunner, who was in it (which did not suffer any damage, having invoked the patronage of Our Holy Image), and fell upon the walls of the convent, and running for their flooded trenches surrounded the Church and its 2 sides to enter through the front door of the Farm, looking to the East.

Surprised by this unanticipated boost the ocean, some religious who were outside, and within the choir, acceleration fled to the fields, keeping others in the same choir.


Demographics


Source: INE (Spain)

1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006
16,200 16,539 16,814 17,127 17,334 17,603 17,730 17,952

Festivities and traditions


Church of Our Lady of O.
Church of Our Lady of O.
Hermitage of Christ of the Mercies.
Hermitage of Christ of the Mercies.

See also



References


  1. Municipal Register of Spain 2018. National Statistics Institute.



На других языках


- [en] Chipiona

[es] Chipiona

Chipiona es un municipio español situado en la provincia de Cádiz, en la comunidad autónoma de Andalucía, y una villa de dicho municipio. Según el INE, a 1 de enero de 2020 contaba con una población de 19 246 habitantes, la cual se multiplica en periodo estival. La extensión superficial del término municipal es de 32,92 km² y tiene una densidad de 573,90 hab/km². La villa se encuentra situada en la costa atlántica, a una altitud de 6 metros sobre el nivel del mar, entre las poblaciones de Rota y Sanlúcar de Barrameda y a 60 km de Cádiz, capital de la provincia.

[ru] Чипиона

Чипиона (исп. Chipiona) — муниципалитет в Испании, входит в провинцию Кадис, в составе автономного сообщества Андалусия. Муниципалитет находится в составе района (комарки) Коста-Нороэсте-де-Кадис. Занимает площадь 32,99 км². Население — 18 722 человека (на 2010 год). Расстояние — 54 км до административного центра провинции. Пляжный курорт на побережье Коста-де-ла-Лус, славится золотистыми пляжами, общая длина которых составляет 12 км. Главная достопримечательность города — построенный в 1867 году маяк высотой 62 м, самый высокий в Испании и пятнадцатый по высоте в мире.



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