San Roque

San Roque is a small town and municipality inside the south of Spain. It is part of the province of Cadiz, which in turn is part of the self reliant network of Andalusia. San Roque is situated a brief manner inland of the north facet of the Bay of Gibraltar, just to the north of the Gibraltar peninsula. The municipality has a total surface of 145 km² with a population of about 25,500 people, as of 2005. Its call is Spanish for Saint Roch, a Christian saint who changed into respected in a shrine courting back to 1508 that predates the inspiration of the metropolis.

The vicinity round San Roque has been inhabited considering the fact that prehistoric times. The oldest regarded settlement in the municipality is the ruined metropolis of Carteia, based via the Phoenicians. It have become a Phoenician tradepost and advanced into a Carthaginian town via 228 BCE. Its most important trade changed into in neighborhood wine and garum or salazon, a fish-based sauce. Carteia became captured via Rome in 206 BCE. A few years later, in 171 BCE, Iberian-born kids of Roman soldiers appeared earlier than the Roman Senate to request a city to stay in, and were given Carteia, named Colonia Libertinorum Carteia.