Arcos de la Frontera

Arcos de la Frontera is a town and municipality in the Sierra de Cadiz comarca, province of Cadiz, in Andalusia, Spain. It is located at the Northern, Western and Southern banks of the Guadalete river, Arcos de los angeles Frontera is a metropolis and municipality within the Sierra de Cadiz comarca, province of Cadiz, in Andalusia, Spain. It is placed at the Northern, Western and Southern banks of the Guadalete river, which flows around 3 facets of the town underneath towering vertical cliffs, to Jerez and on to the Bay of Cadiz. The town commands a best vista atop a sandstone ridge, from which the height of San Cristobal and the Guadalete Valley can be visible.

The city won its name through being the frontier of Spain's 13^th century warfare with the Moors. There is nearby evidence that Stone Age cave-dwellers used rocks to form living chambers. Roman ruins also exist inside the region. Arcos became an independent Moorish taifa in 1011 in the course of the protracted fall apart of the Umayyad Caliphate of Cordoba. Arcos changed into associated with the Jerez via 'Abdun ibn Muhammad who ruled from c. 1029/1030 to 1053. The area became overtaken by the Almoravid dynasty in 1091. From 1145 to 1147 the place of Arcos and Jerez changed into briefly a taifa underneath dependency of Granada, led via Abu'l-Qasim Ahyal. The metropolis was a bulwark of Christianity after king Alfonso X of Castile 'the Wise' expelled the Moors.