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What to see in Jerez de la Frontera

World capital of sherry and birthplace of Jerez flamenco and the Carthusian horse. González Byass winery, the Royal Equestrian School and the Flamenco Festival make Jerez an irreplaceable destination.

6 Gastronomy6 Culture4 Historical Heritage3 Sports Activities2 Nature

🏛️ Historical Heritage

⛪ Church of San Dionisio

A jewel of Jerez Mudéjar art built in the 15th century after the Castilian reconquest, beside the Atalaya tower on the Plaza de la Asunción.

Church / Cathedral

⛪ Church of San Miguel

A masterpiece fusing late Isabelline Gothic and Baroque, with a deeply carved doorway and a main altarpiece by Martínez Montañés in the San Miguel quarter of Jerez.

Church / Cathedral

🍾 Monumental Wineries of Jerez

The so-called cathedrals of wine, 19th-century ageing halls listed as industrial heritage. La Concha, with its unsupported iron dome, came from Eiffel's workshop.

Industrial heritage

🏯 Pemartín Palace

An 18th-century Jerez manor house, today home of the Andalusian Flamenco Documentation Centre, with a 15th-century Mudéjar coffered ceiling.

Palace or civil architecture

🌿 Nature

🦆 Medina Lagoon

The largest lagoon in the province and the second in Andalusia, a key protected site for wintering water birds such as the crested coot and the white-headed duck.

River, lake or reservoir

🦅 White-headed Ducks of Medina Lagoon

A key refuge for the white-headed duck and crested coot, two of Europe's most threatened waterbirds, with a hide and a perimeter trail.

Birdwatching

🎭 Culture

📚 Andalusian Flamenco Documentation Centre

In the Pemartín Palace in Jerez, it is the world's largest archive on this art form, holding scores, historic recordings and unique books on singing, guitar and dance.

Flamenco

🐂 Jerez Bullring

Opened in 1894, it stands out for its exterior tilework dedicated to historic bullfighting figures and for being the cradle of modern mounted bullfighting.

Bullring

💃 Jerez Festival

The world's most important festival of flamenco and Spanish dance, gathering each February the genre's leading figures at the Villamarta Theatre and other venues.

Fair or Festival

🐴 Jerez Horse Fair

The great May fair in González Hontoria park, where the Andalusian horse, fino wine, carriage teams and flamenco in the casetas take centre stage.

Fair or Festival

🏘️ Santiago and San Miguel Quarters

Regarded as the world epicentre of cante jondo. Walking the streets of these Jerez quarters means connecting directly with the roots of the great gypsy dynasties.

Flamenco

🎭 Villamarta Theatre

A magnificent rationalist theatre with Art Deco touches founded in 1926, main venue of the prestigious Jerez Flamenco Festival and of a strong opera season.

Theatre

🍽️ Gastronomy

🍫 Alba Cream Liqueur

A cream liqueur from Jerez de la Frontera, the only cream liqueur in the world based on Sherry Brandy with Protected Geographical Indication, with notes of vanilla and cocoa.

Gastronomy

🍷 Amontillado and Oloroso

Complex oxidative-aged wines from Jerez de la Frontera. Amontillado is born from a fino that loses its veil of flor; oloroso always ages in contact with air. Both display an intense mahogany colour.

Gastronomy

🥂 Fino Wine

The most representative wine of the Sherry Triangle, made above all in Jerez de la Frontera and El Puerto de Santa María. Dry, sharp and pale, aged under a veil of flor and perfect with tapas.

Gastronomy

🛒 Jerez Central Market

A monumental 19th-century iron and brick building, famous for its retinto beef and fish. Many of its taverns let you pair tapas with finos and amontillados from local wineries.

Market

🍾 Palo Cortado

An oenological rarity born in the wineries of Jerez de la Frontera. It combines the fine nose of an amontillado with the full body of an oloroso, and appears spontaneously in just a few casks of each vintage.

Gastronomy

🥃 Sherry Brandy

A wine spirit aged in Jerez de la Frontera inside the very American oak casks that previously held fortified wines, which give it its amber colour and sweet notes.

Gastronomy

🏄 Sports Activities

⛳ Montecastillo Golf

A Jack Nicklaus course in Jerez, host of the Volvo Masters for a decade and one of the most technical layouts in Andalusia, with rolling fairways and well-defended greens.

Golf course Hard

🐴 Royal Andalusian School of Equestrian Art

A world reference for the Andalusian horse, with the show How the Andalusian Horses Dance, museums and visits to the stables and riding halls.

Horse riding Easy

⛳ Sherry Golf Jerez

A layout of wide fairways and plenty of water in play among albariza vineyards, with views of Jerez and a very approachable atmosphere for all levels.

Golf course Easy

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