Guadix

Guadix
—  Municipality  —
Guadix Cathedral
Coat of arms
Guadix Location in Spain
Coordinates: 37°18′N 3°8′W / 37.3°N 3.133°W / 37.3; -3.133Coordinates: 37°18′N 3°8′W / 37.3°N 3.133°W / 37.3; -3.133
Country	Spain
Autonomous community	Andalusia
Province	Granada
Comarca	Comarca de Guadix
Judicial district	Guadix
Government
• Mayor	Santiago Pérez López (2007) (PP)
Area
• Total	317 km2 (122.4 sq mi)
Elevation	949 m (3,114 ft)
Population (2009)
• Total	20,395
• Density	64.3/km2 (166.6/sq mi)
Demonym	Accitanos, Guadijeños
Time zone	CET (UTC+1)
• Summer (DST)	CEST (UTC+2)
Postal code	18500
Official language(s)
Website	Official website

Guadix, a city of southern Spain, in the province of Granada; on the left bank of the river Guadix, a sub-tributary of the Guadiana Menor, and on the Madrid-Valdepeñas-Almería railway. It occupies part of an elevated plateau among the northern foothills of the Sierra Nevada.

The city was once famous for its cutlery; but its modern manufactures (chiefly earthenware, hempen goods, and hats) are inconsiderable. It has some trade in wool, cotton, flax, corn and liqueurs. The warm mineral springs of Graena, much frequented during the summer, are 6 miles west.

Troglodyte cave dwellings in Guadix

History

Guadix el Viejo, 6 km northwest, was the Roman Acci (also Accitum) mentioned in Pliny's Natural History and as Akki by Ptolemy, who placed it among the Bastetani. Acci was situated in the region of the Bastetanos, whose capital was Baza. It is not known for certain whether it is of Phoenician or of early Spanish origin. According to Macrobius, the primitive inhabitants paid homage to Mars under the name of Neton. Julius Caesar established the Roman colony called Julia Gemella. According to tradition, it was the seat of the first bishopric in Hispania, in the 2nd century.

After 711 it rose to some importance as a Moorish fortress and trading station, renamed Wadi-Aci ("the Wadi of Acci" ^[1] It was surrendered without a siege to the Spaniards, under Ferdinand and Isabella, in 1489.

The novelist Pedro Antonio de Alarcon, author of El Sombrero de Tres Picos (The Three-cornered Hat) was born in Guadix in 1833. The 19th and 20th centuries saw a period of economical crisis for the town. Currently Guadix is a center of production of fruit (strawberries), cereals, vegetables, as well as a tourist center.

Main sights

Guadix Cathedral

Plaza de la Constitución

• Guadix Cathedral (16th-18th centuries), built over a Moorish mosque in Gothic-Renaissance style. The façade is in Baroque style.
• Church of St. Augustine (18th century),
• Church of Santiago (1540), with a Plateresque portal
• Convent and church of the Conception
• Alcazaba, a Moorish fortress commanding the town
• Barrio de Santiago, a quarter characterized by houses carved in tuff rocks.

Twin towns

• Buenos Aires, Argentina
• Celanova, Spain
• Guanare, Venezuela
• La Güera, Western Sahara

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See also

• Roman Catholic Diocese of Guadix
• Cascamorras

References

External links

• Ayuntamiento de Guadix
• Cartography and aerial pictures of Guadix and Surroundings

Mountains around Guadix

Sources and references

•  This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Herbermann, Charles, ed (1913). Catholic Encyclopedia. Robert Appleton Company.  [1]
• Richard Stillwell, ed. Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites, 1976: "Acci (Guadix), Granada, Spain"

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