Medina-Sidonia
Medina Sidonia is a city and municipality in the province of Cádiz in the autonomous community of Andalusia, southern Spain. Considered by some to be the oldest city in Europe, it is used as a military defence location because of its elevation.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Town with 10,100 residents
- Description: municipality of Spain
- Also known as: “Medina Sidonia”
- Postal code: 11170
- Neighbors: Alcala de los Gazules, Jerez de la Frontera, and Tarifa
Places of Interest
Highlights include Iglesia de Santa María La Coronada (Medina-Sidonia).
Iglesia de Santa María La Coronada (Medina-Sidonia)
Church
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Iglesia de Santa María La Coronada (Medina-Sidonia) is a church.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Castle of Torre-estrella and Paterna de Rivera.
Castle of Torre-estrella
Locality
Photo: El Pantera, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Castle of Torre-estrella is a castle located in Medina Sidonia, Spain. It was declared Bien de Interés Cultural in 1993. Castle of Torre-estrella is situated 6 km east of Medina-Sidonia.
Paterna de Rivera
Village
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Paterna de Rivera is a small town located in the province of Cádiz, Spain. According to the 2005 census, it had a population of 5,354. Paterna de Rivera is situated 9 km northeast of Medina-Sidonia.
Medina-Sidonia
- Categories: municipality of Spain and locality
- Location: Medina-Sidonia, Cádiz, Andalusia, Spain, Iberia, Europe
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Latitude
36.45767° or 36° 27′ 28″ northLongitude
-5.92727° or 5° 55′ 38″ westPopulation
10,100Elevation
268 metres (879 feet)United Nations Location Code
ES MSAOpen location code
8C8PF35F+33OpenStreetMap ID
node 1470838520OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Waray—“Medina-Sidonia” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “شذونة”
- Arabic: “ميدينا-سايدنيا”
- Aragonese: “Medina-Sidonia”
- Armenian: “Մեդինա-Սիդոնիա”
- Asturian: “Medina Sidonia”
- Basque: “Medina-Sidonia”
- Belarusian: “Медына-Сідонія”
- Breton: “Medina-Sidonia”
- Catalan: “Medina Sidonia”
- Catalan: “Medina-Sidònia”
- Catalan: “Shaduna”
- Catalan: “Xadúna”
- Cebuano: “Medina Sidonia”
- Cebuano: “Medina-Sidonia”
- Chechen: “Медина-Сидония”
- Chinese: “Medina-Sidonia”
- Chinese: “梅迪納-西多尼亞”
- Chinese: “梅迪纳-西多尼亚”
- Chinese: “锡多尼亚城”
- Czech: “Medina-Sidonia”
- Danish: “Medina Sidonia”
- Dutch: “Medina-Sidonia”
- Egyptian Arabic: “شذونه”
- Esperanto: “Medina Sidonia”
- Esperanto: “Medina-Sidonia”
- Finnish: “Medina-Sidonia”
- French: “Medina Sidonia”
- French: “Medina-Sidonia”
- French: “Médina-Sidonia”
- Galician: “Medina Sidonia”
- Georgian: “მედინა-სიდონია”
- German: “Medina Sidonia”
- German: “Medina-Sidonia”
- Greek: “Μεδίνα-Σιδόνια”
- Haitian: “Medina-Sidonia”
- Hebrew: “מדינה-סידוניה”
- Hungarian: “Medina-Sidonia”
- Indonesian: “Medina-Sidonia”
- Interlingua: “Medina Sidonia”
- Interlingue: “Medina Sidonia”
- Irish: “Medina Sidonia”
- Italian: “Medina-Sidonia”
- Japanese: “メディナ=シドニア”
- Ladin: “Medina Sidonia”
- Latin: “Asidonia”
- Lithuanian: “Medina Sidonija”
- Lombard: “Medina-Sidonia”
- Malay: “Medina-Sidonia”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Medina-Sidonia”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Medina Sidonia”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Medina-Sidonia”
- Persian: “مدینا-سیدونیا”
- Polish: “Medina-Sidonia”
- Portuguese: “Medina Sidonia”
- Portuguese: “Medina Sidónia”
- Portuguese: “Medina Sidônia”
- Portuguese: “Medina-Sidonia”
- Portuguese: “Medina-Sidónia”
- Romanian: “Medina-Sidonia”
- Russian: “Медина Сидония”
- Russian: “Медина-Сидониа”
- Russian: “Медина-Сидония”
- Russian: “Сидония”
- Slovak: “Medina-Sidonia”
- South Azerbaijani: “مدینا-سیدونیا”
- Spanish: “Asidonense/Sidoniano”
- Spanish: “Medina Sidonia”
- Spanish: “Medina-Sidonia”
- Swedish: “Medina Sidonia”
- Tatar: “Медина-Сидония”
- Turkish: “Medina Sidonia”
- Turkish: “Medina-Sidonia”
- Ukrainian: “Медіна-Сідоніа”
- Ukrainian: “Медіна-Сідонія”
- Venetian: “Medina-Sidonia”
- Vietnamese: “Medina-Sidonia”
- Waray (Philippines): “Medina-Sidonia”
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