The photography in the header is Camposoto Beach, in my town San Fernando (Cadiz, Spain). It was taken in January 7th, 2011, around 11h.

The Sancti-Petri castle, that can be hardly scanned on the horizon, is located on a rocky island no bigger than the castle itself. The geography of this site changed a lot in the last two millennia but historians think that the lost Herakleion, a Phoenician and later Roman temple devoted to Heracles, was placed no far to the current castle location. This temple was a main destiny of pilgrimage in the pagan antiquity. Julius Caesar cried in front of a sculpture of Alexander the Great, located in the temple, because the Greek had reached much more glory than him at a younger age (Suetonius, Julius Caesar, VII).

Glorious events that have been almost completely erased from our collective memory. Sic transit...