The area known as Punta de San García is located on the southwest end of Algeciras Bay.

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Architects: Maria Caffarena + Victor Cobos

Location: Algeciras, Cádiz, Spain

Project Area: 100700.0 m2

Project Year: 2008

Photographs: Jesús Granada

Construction: U.T.E. Isla Verde

Client: Autoridad Portuaria Bahía de Algeciras

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From the architect. The area known as Punta de San García is located on the southwest end of Algeciras Bay.

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Open to the Strait of Gibraltar, it enjoys an exceptional strategic location, which has made it into a natural set of historical events of great importance.
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Located south of the city of Algeciras, it is a high place about twenty meters above the sea, forming cliffs around its perimeter exposed to the sea, the last natural barrier of the Park of the Acorns, though detached from it by the construction of second home neighborhoods reaching the very edge.

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It is part of the Natural Park of the Strait, given the biological quality of the coastal strip. The geological feature configuration is the denominated Flysch of the Field of Gibraltar, which with the wave...