Life

The origins of Conil de la Frontera are slightly confusing,

It is said that the town has been settled since prehistoric times. Phoenicians took advantage of the rich tuna fishing grounds along the coast, and later the Carthaginians carried on with the dried fish and tuna industry. Conil became an important port under the Romans, as it was the route used to connect Málaga and Cádiz.

After the fall of the Roman Empire, Vandals, Byzantines and Visigoths successively invaded Conil until the arrival of the Muslims in the year 711, who incorporated the town into the territorial division of Sidonia. King Fernando IV granted the village, at the time known as Huedi Conil, to the noble Alonso Peréz de Guzmán, becoming part of the feudal domains of the Dukedom of Medina-Sidonia until the feudal estate was abolished in the nineteenth century.