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Spain, Jerez de la Frontera and Cádiz (Sep 2024)

Jerez de la Frontera and Cádiz, Spain
September 2024

Jerez de la Frontera

From 3 September until 19 September we visited two Andalusian cities, Jerez de la Frontera and Cádiz.
Although the start of the trip was a bit disappointing (mobile was stolen near and after visiting Jerez Alcázar), we enjoyed both cities in the South of Andalusia.

Jerez de la Frontera is well known because of the local wine Sherry, the Royal Andalusian School of Equestrian Art, a famous horse riding school and many beautiful churches and monuments. The city founded in 1930 the Andalusian Centre of Flamingo to safeguard and promote the values and standards of Flamenco.
Jerez has been a center of viniculture since the Phoenicians introduced winemaking in Spain in 1100 BC. The city has many Bodegas like González Byass, Sandeman and Álvaro Domecq. We visited Tio Pepe one of them for sight-seeing and tasting. The most types of sherry are not really our favorite drink, but drinking some types of sherry in such a warm climate and environment with tapas is ok. But, after the wine crisis in 1990s Jerez is nowadays seeking to expand its industrial base.

Jerez has many churches and monuments, too much to see them all, but to be mentioned for sure:
The Cathedral, Church of Santiago (dating to around 1265), Church of San Miguel (15^th century), Asunción Square and the Church of San Dionisio (late 15^th century), Jerez Alcázar (dated to the 11^th century), Old City Hall (built in 1575), the Zoo and Botanical Garden, the Archeological Museum, Central Market, Plaza Del Aranal and the Convent of San José.
Some of the churches were surprising because of all the beautiful and old decorations, but strangely not many visitors.
The center of Jerez is not really big, easy to walk from one place to another place and in the meanwhile rest at a terrace for lunch, sherry and tapas. It is a rather cozy center with relaxed people enjoying their tapas and sherry.

Travelling from Jerez to Gibraltar in one day can be done, but it is about 3 hours driving by travelling bus. So early rise, 3 hours driving, ½ hour to enter the place, max. 3 hours sightseeing, ½ hour to leave the place and 3 hours driving back to Jerez. Because it was rather windy, no cable car to the top. We tried to walk to the top, but exhausted we returned half way to find us a big beer at a real British pub.

Another visit should have been with the Ferry boat to Parque Nacional de Doñana at the estuary of the river Rio Guadalquivir. But entrance is only admitted to a maximum number of visitors so we should have booked in advance. Nevertheless the city Sanlúcar de Barrameda is worthwhile to visit. Built in 1477 and high above the city lies the Castle of Santiago from the 15^th century. Built as one of the fortresses to protect the estuary of the river it is strong and strategic located. The castle has thick walls and secret tunnels and it has magnificent views at the city, the sea and Rio Guadalquivir. Its strategic location made the city a starting point for the exploration, colonization and evangelization of America between the 15^th and 17^th century. At 30 May 1498 Christoffel Columbus sailed to the New World and the city developed to an important harbor for the expeditions of the Conquistadores. In the castle many drawings and old maps of parts of the world remain from the Conquistadores time.
And, the local bus trip from Jerez was very cheap, so that was also a positive thing of that day.
We stayed for about 10 days in Jerez de La Frontera before we went to Cádiz by taxi, costs about € 65.

More information about: Jerez de la Frontera

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Cádiz

In Cádiz, situated at the Atlantic and with beautiful beaches in the Bay of Cádiz, we stayed 6 days, which was for us enough. Cádiz was founded by the Phoenicians in the 7^th century as a port and is often regarded as the most ancient city still standing in Western Europe. The Old Town is rather small and characterized by the antiquity of the various quarters like El Pópulo, La Viña and Santa Maria with the narrow streets. Interesting churches, monuments, several squares and the archeologic museum with the Phoenician sarcophagi.

From the beach you have a nice view of the City skyline, the Cádiz Cathedral (original 1263), the San Antonio church (19^th century), the Old Town Hall (built between 1799 and 1861), a watchtower, the ancient city walls with a great view of Las Puertas de Tierra and the Roman Theater. At the Plaza de España the monument of the Constitution of 1812 is situated.

Cádiz is a more touristic city than Jerez, It has beautiful beaches along the Atlantic and a harbor with cruise ships coming and going every day. When the tourist are entering the city the first view they have is a beautiful square, Plaza de San Juan de Dios, with lots of terraces and a view at the façade of The Old Town Hall. The climate is great, temperatures during the year acceptable, but maybe in Summer, July and August, too hot, but too bad that Cádiz has no airport. We had to fly back to Amsterdam from Jerez de La Frontera via Madrid.

More information about: Cádiz

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