JEREZ DE LA FRONTERA

Jerez de la Frontera is 20 minutes by car away from El Puerto de Santa Maria and is the Flamenco capital of the world, and famous for it’s equestrian events and dancing horses.
Jerez is a large town 36km north east of Cádiz famous world wide for it’s sherry made from grapes grown on the chalky soils surrounding the area.
The bodegas where the sherry is made are a popular tourist attraction.
Jerez has loads of nice shops with spacious streets and beautiful old buildings and churches. Jerez is an interesting town to spend an enjoyable afternoon watching the world go by.
Jerez is also famous for it’s motorcycle events the most famous being the World Motorcycling Championships which is held in every year and is one of the biggest sporting events in Spain attracting round 150,000 spectators. This year the GP is being held from 1st May to the 3rd May 2009.
One of the biggest attractions in Jerez are the dancing horses which can be seen in the Real Escuela Andaluz del Arte Ecuestre (Royal Andalucian School of Equestrian Art on the Avenida Dugue de Abrantes. There are shows open to the public bookings have to be made in advance and can be made over the internet http://www.realescuela.org/home.htm.
SHOW "CÓMO BAILAN LOS CABALLOS ANDALUCES"
Time schedule:
Tuesdays ( from 1st March to 15th December ), Thursdays and Fridays ( only Fridays in August ) at 12.00 hours.
Ticket office timetable: From 09.30 a 11.45 hours.
Jerez's Feria del Caballo which is celebrated annually in May each year (This years dates are 27th April until 4th May 2009)
This is one of the largest Ferias in Andulacia apart from that of Seville, when the town comes to life with lots of dancing, music fino driking and colourful traditional costumes as everyone dresses up in flamenco dresses from the tiny tots to ancient grannies. Well worth a visit if you are in the region during these dates.

Accomodation in apartments by the sea can be found by clicking on the following link:

http://www.emiliosbar.com/