El Cantón de Tarifa de 1873 Curiosity · Tarifa, Campo de Gibraltar, Cádiz Image of Tarifa, not of the place itself. During the First Republic, Tarifa proclaimed its own independent canton between 21 July and 6 August 1873, as part of the cantonalist wave that shook southern Spain that summer. 21 de julio - 6 de agosto de 1873 Photo: Đuro Jiří (CC BY-SA 4.0) What to see and do in Tarifa