El Puerto De Santa Maria, Cadiz, in Costa de la Luz

The Costa de la Luz stretches almost 200km from Tarifa to the Portuguese boarder.
The Costa de la Luz (Coast of Light) has long fine sandy beaches backed by pine covered dunes, within this area you will find El Puerto de Santa Maria probably the most famous resort in the area, known by the Spanish nationals for it’s laidback approach but relatively unknown to foreign visitors.
The town of El Puerto de Santa Maria is 10km north east of Cadiz across the bay of Cadiz and is best known for its ferry El Vaporcito which has been in operation for over 100 years carrying passengers to and from Cadiz to El Puerto.
Columbus visited El Puerto in 1480 and received encouragement for his travel plans and he also met Juan de la Cosa who in 1500 issued the first world map. In the nineteenth century the city became the General Headquarters for the French Army during the war of Independence under the reign of Jose Bonaparte (1801-1812) The town is seeped in history, museums and monuments. It is also within easy accessible reach of richly historical cities of Seville and Cádiz.

El Puerto has a famous bull ring which dates back to 1880 with space for 15,000 spectators and bull fighting is still enjoyed during the Feria season, which are during the month of August and during the Feria de la Primavera which is in early May.
 This Feria is dedicated to Sherry and 180,0000 half bottles get drunk in 4 days!!!Rebujito being the most popular drink during the feria.
There are several Bodegas in the town centre all of which can be visited by the public.
The most famous being the Osborne and Terry Bodegas who export sherry and brandy worldwide . In the cellars in El Puerto sherry is produced using the traditional method called “solera”. This method produces the pale dry sherries to the sweet Muscatel sherry, Amontillados and the older Olorosos. El Puerto is an excellent place to sample local tapas and seafood, for which it is famous. Food is an important reason why El Puerto de Santa Maria attracts hundreds of tourists.
The Bay of Cadiz is famous for it’s fresh seafood fish and that teamed with the abundance of fresh fruit and vegetables leads to excellent restaurant menus.
Eating seafood in El Puerto is something everyone has to experience, most tourists head for the Rivera del Marisco where you can by seafood in paper cones to take away or eat at the tables. There are a wide variety of eateries all located with walking distance in the town centre. Fortunately El Puerto has managed to escape the mass tourism of the Costa del Sol and remains unspoilt, natural and very picturesque.
During the summer months the town bursts with life, El Puerto is a very lively place with lots of bars and lots going on.Most of the town is on the north bank of the Rio Guadelete, where bars and restaurants line the palm-covered streets. Entertainment is lively in the summer in the town centre and in Vistahermosa everything starts very late and goes on well into the early hours, hence the famous Spanish siesta.

Apartments and accomodation are available on a daily, weekly, and monthly basis. Please click on the following link to see our selection:

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Puerto Sherry, El Puerto de Santa Maria

Puerto Sherry is a lovely sailing holiday resort of colourful apartments overlooking the beach and the Bay of Cadiz, ideal for a relaxing holiday in the real Andalusia. Puerto Sherry Marina is an attractive modern Marina complex on the Bay of Cadiz, in El Puerto de Santa Maria a small fishing resort only 8 minutes from the town centre only 20 minutes from Jerez Airport, on the Costa de la Luz. It is a popular destination for the sailing lovers. Puerto Sherry is a sailing haven and has many classes and courses in sailing of all types, windsurfing, waterski-ing, jet ski, sailing regatas, sailing competitions, and diving.
Puerto Sherry is well worth a visit if you are visiting El Puerto de Santa Maria. It offers amazing views of the Bay of Cadiz and has a lovely beach called la Muralla which is a secluced beach which isn't affected by the strong winds that are typical on this coast.
Apartment rentals available in this beautiful Marina complex for information visit:
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WINDSURFING IN CADIZ, RACEBOARD,SURFING IN EL PUERTO DE SANTA MARIA

Windsufing, RS.X, raceboard in Puerto Sherry, apartments to rent for windsurfers, watersports and sailing events in Cadiz.

Windsurfing has become one of the most popular water sports in Andalucia.

El Puerto de Santa Maria has excellent facilites to practice this sport and Puerto Sherry has become one of the hot spots for international training in this given olympic event.

Every year teams from all over Europe come to Puerto Sherry to compete in various competitions in the Atlantic waters of the Bay of Cádiz which has excellent wind conditions for this sport.

The New Year Regata is just one of the many competitions in the Bay of Cadiz where more than a hundred specialists of fourteen countries come to compete in classes RS: X and Techno Laser, important when scoring for the international ranking (ISAF)

If you wish to book accomodation for windsurfing please check out all the apartments available along with prices.

It is advisable to book your apartment in advance Apartments, flats and houses are available to rent on a weekly and daily basis.

If you require accomodation please view all the apartments available for windsurfing events on:

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Windsurfing, or raceboarding, is a surface water sport using a windsurf board, also commonly called a sailboard, usually two to five meters long and powered by wind pushing a single sail. The rig is connected to the board by a free-rotating flexible joint called the Universal Joint (U-Joint). Unlike a rudder-steered sailboat, a windsurfer is steered by the tilting and rotating of the mast and sail as well as tilting and carving the board.

The sport combines aspects of both sailing and surfing, along with certain athletic aspects shared with other board sports like skateboarding, snowboarding, waterskiing, and wakeboarding. A windsurfer holds the world speed record for sailing craft and, windsurfers can perform jumps, inverted loops, spinning maneuvers, and other "freestyle" moves that cannot be matched by any sailboat.

Windsurfing includes speed sailing, slalom, course racing, wave sailing, superX, and freestyle as distinct disciplines.Though windsurfing is possible in winds from near 0 to 50 knots, the ideal planing conditions for most recreational sailors is 15-25 knots, with lighter winds resulting in displacement mode sailing.

Lessons can be taken with a school. the basic skills of sailing, steering, and turning can be learned within a few hours. Competence in the sport and mastery of more advanced maneuvers such as planing, carve gybing (turning downwind at speed), water starting, jumping, and more advanced moves can require lengthy practiceSailing, windsurfing and kitesurfing lessons are available in El Puerto de Santa Maria in the Federation de Vela in Puerto Sherry.

NEW PLANS FOR A NEW PUERTO SHERRY

Plans for a New Puerto Sherry which include 1,039 new berths, three hotels and a shopping centre were submitted to the judge in exchange for an end to the bankruptcy order .
Carmen Fornell the judge declared on Wednesday an end to the bankruptcy order which has marred the complex from since 1995 when it went into voluntary bankruptcy. The new plans
include the construction of a new dock with a capacity of more than 1,039 berths along with the 788 moorings that currently exist in the complex, a shopping mall, three new hotels and a convention hall for 500 people.
The complex which has had 13 years of legal battles and judicial misfortunes, now has been given the green light to finish the project thought to be the New Puerto Banus of Cadiz.
From March onwards the ambitious plan for the New Puerto Sherry can begin.
The new plan will include:
1,039 new berths with the construction of in a new dock running from the existing lighthouse to Emilio’s Bar in Pueblo Sherry. There will be 199 moorings for six meters long boats, eight moorings for 193m, 184m, 10m, 242m, twelve, moorings for boats of 185m, 15m, 16m 20m and 20 moorings for 25m boats . To date, the occupation of moorings is almost one hundred percent and there is a waiting list of 300 boats. Around this new dock there will be 618 car parking spaces, as well as a promenade that joins with the residential area of the Pueblo Sherry.

The new shopping mall of 4,500 square meters will have an underground parking for 15,000 square meters. The Yacht Club Hotel which now exists within the complex will be joined with another three new hotels , which is pending planning permission, will be one three star hotel, and two of four star hotels, along with a glazed conventions hall with the capacity for 500 people.

The end to the bankruptcy also opens the way for the construction of houses in Pueblo Sherry along with a new development on the La China which is prime land which lies between Pueblo Sherry and Fuertecuidad . This land was sold to the Noriega Group in 2005. Plans for 640 new homes will be submitted for approval along with the 380 new homes in Pueblo Sherry.

There is also the possibility of extending the beach La Muralla to join with the new dock which would double the actual size of the existing beach but this all depends on the coastal authorities giving their permission.

If you want to come and stay in Puerto sherry accomodation is available by clicking on the following link:
http://www.emiliosbar.com

EL PUERTO DE SANTA MARIA,CADIZ,COSTA DE LA LUZ,

El Puerto has a famous bull ring which dates back to 1880 with space for 15,000 spectators and bull fighting is still enjoyed during the Feria season, which are during the month of August and during the Feria de la Primavera which is in early May. This Feria is dedicated to Sherry and 180,0000 half bottles get drunk in 4 days!!! There are several Bodegas in the town centre all of which can be visited by the public. The most famous being the Osborne and Terry Bodegas who export sherry and brandy worldwide . In the cellars in El Puerto sherry is produced using the traditional method called “solera”. This method produces the pale dry sherries to the sweet Muscatel sherry, Amontillados and the older Olorosos.

El Puerto is an excellent place to sample local tapas and seafood, for which it is famous. Food is an important reason why El Puerto de Santa Maria attracts hundreds of tourists. The Bay of Cadiz is famous for it’s fresh seafood fish and that teamed with the abundance of fresh fruit and vegetables leads to excellent restaurant menus. Eating seafood in El Puerto is something everyone has to experience, most tourists head for the Rivera del Marisco where you can by seafood in paper cones to take away or eat at the tables. There are a wide variety of eateries all located with walking distance in the town centre.

Fortunately El Puerto has managed to escape the mass tourism of the Costa del Sol and remains unspoilt, natural and very picturesque.
During the summer months the town bursts with life, El Puerto is a very lively place with lots of bars and lots going on.
Most of the town is on the north bank of the Rio Guadelete, where bars and restaurants line the palm-covered streets. Entertainment is lively in the summer in the town centre and in Vistahermosa everything starts very late and goes on well into the early hours, hence the famous Spanish siesta.

Accomodation is available on a daily weekly and monthly basis please click on the link below to see a selection of all the aprtments in El puerto de Santa Maria:

http://www.emiliosbar.com/apartments.html