Alberto Campo Baeza

Architect Alberto Campo Baeza has been named an Honorary Citizen of Cádiz. The ceremony, presided over by the city’s mayor, Bruno García, took place at the Cádiz Conference Centre on Cuesta de las Calesas at 7 p.m. on 22 October 2025.

Alberto Campo Baeza was born in Valladolid and arrived in Cádiz in the late 1940s when his father, Juvencio Campo, was assigned as a military surgeon to the Military Hospital of Cádiz in Plaza de Falla. He spent his early years in Campo de las Balas neighborhood, in small white military barracks built by General Bouzo and designed by engineer Lucini. Other notable figures also lived there, such as Carlos Díaz, who was mayor of the city.

Campo Baeza began his studies at the Torre Tavira with Sister Juliana and Sister Felicitas. He then studied at the Colegio de San Felipe Neri Ciudad before completing his secondary education at San Felipe Neri de Puertatierra with the Marianists. In the 1960s, he moved to Madrid to study architecture at ETSAM UPM, where he later became a professor of design.
To mark this recognition, the architect has presented the mayor with a beautiful statue of Hercules Gaditanus, which reproduces the classic original in the Plaza de Mina Museum. The sculpture now presides over his desk.

Campo Baeza now claims the Roman heritage of Cádiz, recalling how Julius Caesar, the Roman emperor, in 49 BC, granted Roman citizenship to all the people of Cádiz. Years earlier, when Julius Caesar was quaestor of Roman Hispania, he went to the oracle of Hercules in Cadiz, who predicted that he would become emperor of Rome. CITIZEN OF CADIZ, CITIZEN OF ROME!

C.J.

Link to the news item in El Diario de Cádiz
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