Life

The Phoenicians, Romans and Visigoths left strong identifying marks on the town of Medina, both in the artistic sense and in the cultural one....

....however, it was the Muslims who finally turned the town into the capital division of Sidonia. During the IX century the Normans attacked and destroyed the town, and over the following centuries the fights between the Caliphate and the Taifas were frequent.

In the 1264, Alfonso X set up the great seat of military orders such as that of Santiago or Saint Mary of Spain.

In the fifteenth century Juan III handed the town over to Juan de Guzmán, third Count of Niebla and First Duke of Medina Sidonia. In 1472 it received the title of city, and over the next three centuries the church of Medina Sidonia undertook the responsibility of transforming the city into what it looks like today. They did a great job!