Barbate de Franco Favorites

Favorite thing: Since the Romans is known Barbate for its fishing culture till the last years when Spain is not anymore allowed to fish in some areas as Morroco, affecting considerable its fishing industry.

After a few bad decades, tourism is getting its importance in the area

Favorite thing: During the months of April and August the tunas pas the Straight of Gibraltar after being at the arctic north pole and Norway.

In the Mediterranean due to the warm water they reproduce.

First come the oldest ones (the biggest) and second the youngsters

La almadraba is they way of catching them in both ways that has been like that since the old times.
They have records of an incredible amount of Tunas in the old years, but due to the fishing with no control before they come here by the big boats, now the numbers have gone down drastically

Favorite thing: I always called Barbate, so I was surprised to see it was called Barbate de Franco. Also it surprised that some streets were still called Generalisimo Franco, when in the rest Spain, this names had been changed.

Later I discovered that in the times of Franco the dictator, he used to go there on holidays for fishing, so the village took the name for him.