Barbate is a Spanish municipality in the Province of Cádiz, in the autonomous community of Andalusia.

It is a coastal town located on the shores of the Atlantic Ocean, close to the Strait of Gibraltar.

[3] Barbate has been traditionally identified as the Roman oppidum of Baessipo [es] although there are also recent tentative suggestions about a location of the aforementioned settlement in nearby Vejer de la Frontera.

It ceased to be called this in 1998 after a decree was passed by the Junta de Andalucia.

Barbate is popular with Spanish tourists in the summer, but attracts few foreign visitors.