Alejandro Sanz unveils a commemorative plaque of his father in Algeciras

The singer Alejandro Sanz unveiled yesterday a commemorative plaque of his father, Jesus Sánchez Madero "Jesuli".
A roundabout of the borough of Rinconcillo de Algeciras(Cádiz), where he was born and where he used to go on summer holidays when he was young, has been given his name in memory.
Sanz, who unveiled the plaque accompanied with some relatives who live in this municipality of Algeciras, expressed his emotion for "this nice gesture, in memory of my father-who recently died- will have a place in Algeciras".

The Master Guerrero's Texts, "an anticipated Christmas present".

Yesterday the city council received the presentation of the book "Ballads and verses of Spain", and announced the creation of the Casa de la Copla.

Yesterday The Master Salvador Guerrero, worn with a Spanish coat, a red scarf and with a smile on his face, went to Cádiz city council plenary hall in order to present his book Romances y Coplas de España. This favourite son of the city was accompanied by the mayor of Cádiz, Teófila Martinez, who left after saying few words because she had to attend another ceremony. The History doctor, the former cultural association president of Cádiz José María García León and the Culture Town Councillor, Antonio Castillo also took part in the meeting.

Teófila Martinez declared that one of the things which is worthwhile to work in politics is for having the opportunity to meet people like the Master Guerrero. "Thanks for being the Cádiz mayor, have been lucky to know this man and to enjoy his smile, amability and his generosity". She also told that for her, this book is "an anticipated Christmas present".

Lola Montero presents Cadiz of 1812 with a different point of view.

She shows in the Benot Gallery the exposition “Arriving to Cadiz” (Arribando Cadiz) until 8th of January.
In the beginning of 1812 the most part of the Iberic peninsula was ocuppied by Napoleon’s troops. Cadiz was one of the unique places which resisted against the french army and was the place where the members of parliament met to proclame the Constitution. This document established the basis of the liberal democracy and it put the end to the class society of that time. This is the reason why the city became a symbol of freedom.
The exposition Arriving to Cadiz presents the capital of Cadiz with a point of view of the people who arrived to the city from the sea, in 1812. “What we want to do in this project is to reproduce the scenes which would have taken place in that time and situated them into a place of the city of Cadiz. Some of them did occur and some did not, in fact we have documents of some scenes”.
The exposition which is open until 8th of January is presented moreover with 10 acrylic pictures of “small ship from La Caleta”, explained Lola Montero.

A songbook for the most representative rythms of Cádiz.

The Big Band Group from Cádiz will offer a concert tomorrow in the Falla Theatre recording on live its first CD.

Sonora Big Band por Cádiz will be the title of the compact disc that the Cádiz jazz group will record during the concert En vivo y en directo. It will take place tomorrow since 9:00 PM in the Falla Great Theatre, where a songbook of the most representative music of Cádiz is going to be offered. The Culture Minister, Antonio Castillo announced the news to the communication medias yesterday in tow with José Guillamó, the Cádiz Sonora Big Band Manager, Javier Galiana, a pianist, songwriter and arranger of some themes that the group will interpret tomorrow, and Vega López, Manager of the City Council Culture Foundation and Cádiz Theatre Director.

Cadiz Museum starts a project called “Enjoy Christmas”

The objective of the Museum is to promote the cultural rich heritage of the Museum. The campaign Enjoy Other Christmas: Come to the Museum (Disfruta otra Navidad: Ven al Museo), will start on 20th December and was presented by Antonio Álvarez, Manager of the Museum and Bibiana Aído, Cultural delegate, who told the performances for next Sunday “Day of the Reading”.
Enjoy Other Christmas: Come to the Museum includes three conferences: Christmas Questions of Norica Aunt (Los Autos de Navidad de la Tía Norica), by Desirée Ortega, on 20th of December, Iconography of Christmas Themes in the Andalusian paint (Iconografía de los temas navideños en la pitura andaluza), by Enrique Valdivieso on 21st of December and Antecedent Rituals of Christians Christmas in the Eldest time (Antededentes rituales de la Navidad Cristiana en el mundo antiguo), by Ramón Corzo on 22nd of December, all they will be offered since 8.00 pm.

Furthermore, The museum will develop multimedia presentations of Customs Scenes of Cádiz of XIX century and a didactic workshop about Christmas in Cadiz of 1805 coordinated by the Experimental Archaeology Laboratory.

Ikea officially confirmed that it will open its third shop of Andalucía in Jerez in 2008.

The swiss company Ikea has announced that it will open a new shop in Jerez de la Frontera, in Cadiz, and informed that has signed an agreement of buying and selling of the plots to build the shop.
This one will be the first Ikea shop in the province of Cádiz. The situation and the cost of the plots joined to the support which the company has received from the institutions, are the main factors to decide for buying this plots of land in Jerez, said the company, which thanked the treat they received from the Town council of El Puerto de Santa María, the other candidate. The opening of the new shop is expected the second half of 2008.

La “Ostionada” and “La Erizá” will be celebrated on 21st and 29th of January

These two great gastronomy celebrations of the Carnival of Cadiz has been already dated for next 2006. These events will be celebrated separately (it used to celebrate them together), because of the busy calendar of general rehearsals. It did not happen so this year because Christmas date were too close to Carnival, and the first coincided with the second one.
“El Molino” Club is preparing its XX Popular “Ostionada” the next 21st of January in the San Antonio Square (where a fish similar to the oysters is given). Seven days after, “El Erizo” Club will develop its XXVI “Erizá” in Cristo de la Misericordia Street (where sea urchin are given).

Costa de la Luz Winds

Cadiz is a great power using energy from the wind. It has installed aero-generators in selected places which are characteristed by strong winds during the whole year.Wind is one of the cleanest renovable energy, which has grown and has been developed last years.
Thanks to Cadiz, Spain has risen to the second place concerning wind power of Europe, and it is similar as United States. It has overcome Denmark, pioneer country of wind exploitation, and has reached all the expectatives. But this is only the beginning because Environment Delegation is studying to place more Wind Energy Parks in Cadiz.