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| Jerez de la Frontera | ||
| region | Andalusia | |
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| Residents | 213.105 (2020) | |
| height | 56 m | |
| Tourist info | 34 956 338 874 Tourism site of the city | |
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Jerez de la Frontera, short Jerez, is a city in the spanish region Andalusia.
background
With 211,000 inhabitants, Jerez is the largest city in the province of Cádiz. The city is 12 km from the Atlantic coast.
Like many other cities that became Christian again in the 13th century, the city bears the addition “de la Frontera”. From 711 to 1248 the city was under Moorish rule, and from the middle of the 12th century it was even an independent Taifa emirate. In 1248 Jerez first became a Castilian protectorate, then finally Christian under Alfonso X (Alfonso el Sabio) in 1264.
The economy of Jerez is characterized by sherry production, tourism, agriculture and livestock (cattle, horses) and motor sports. Jerez also has a university (Universidad de Cádiz) and an airport.
getting there
By plane
Jerez disposes of the 1 Jerez Airport
(IATA: XRY) via its own airport, which is mainly served by low-cost airlines from Northern Europe. Binter has direct flights to the 2020 Canary Islands. Alternatives are Seville and Airport Malaga.
Although the airport is rather small with its two levels, you will find most of the usual offers, including six car rental companies. As in all Spanish airports, WiFi requires registration.
The airport train station is only served by a few local trains (line C1) every day. An overview of the public transport connections is provided by Transport association website. Line M-050 goes to the bus / main station and then on to Cádiz.
By train
Jerez is on the Cadiz-Seville railway line. It hold on 2 inner city train station, which is a good 500 m from the old town, both express and local trains. There is a taxi rank to the right of the exit.
By bus
| Distances | |
| Seville | 92 km |
|---|---|
| Torremolinos | 229 km |
| Munich | 2444 km |
| Flensburg | 2864 km |
The place is at the Transport network connected to the metropolitan region of Cadiz. Jerez, Cádiz and the surrounding areas are frequent and easy to reach. National connect the operators Comes and Los Amarillos the place with Seville, Madrid, Tarifa, Algeciras and Granada. Furthermore, various tourist providers offer organized day trips from the seaside resorts on the coast to Jerez.
3 Estación de autobuses (6.15 a.m. - midnight; also luggage storage) is to the left of the main exit next to the train station.
In the street
Jerez can be reached from the south (from Cadiz) via the A4 and the AP4 / E5 and from the north via the N IV and the AP4 / E5 (from Seville) excellent connection to the Spanish road network. Furthermore, the A381 coming from Los Barrios and the one from Antequera coming A382 to Jerez.
mobility
There is a zone system in the transport association of the metropolitan region of Bahía de Cádiz. In urban areas, single trips in 2020 cost € 0.70-1.50; There are 9 zones in the region, the prices are € 1.40-7.55. If you buy a top-up prepaid card for € 1.50 (Tarjeta) it's a good third cheaper.
There are 16 inner-city bus routes.
- L 1 Esteve-San Telmo-Constitución
- L 2 Esteve-Picadueñas
- L 3 Esteve-La Plata-Mosto-San Juan de Dios
- L 4 Esteve-García Lorca-El Altillo
- L 5 Esteve-Campus-Guadalcacín
- L 6 Esteve-Campus-La Granja
- L 7 Angustias-La Pita-Estella del Marqués
- L 8 Circunvalación I
- L 9 Circunvalación II
- L 10 Canaleja-Atlántico-Esteve-Hacienda-Hospital
- L 12 Alcázar-C. Salud San Telmo-El Portal / Guadabajaque
- L 13 Alcázar-Blas Infante-Asisa
- L 14 Esteve-Villas Este-La Marquesa
- L 16 Casinos-Hipercor-Ortega Y Gasset
- L 19 Nueva Jarilla-Guadalcacín-Angustias
- L 20 Rotonda-García Lorca-Guadalcacín
In addition to the taxi stands at the airport, at Plaza Arenal and at the train station, there are over 20 other taxi stands in the city.
- Teletaxi. Tel.: 34-956 344 860, 34 956 350 507.
Tourist Attractions
- 1 Alcazar of Jerez, Calle Alameda Vieja, s / n. Palace complex with Moorish origins. It has courtyards, gardens and an Arabic bath that are well worth seeing. In the main building you can see the curious camera obscura visit. There is nothing historical about it, but it is still worth seeing. The light is projected through a mirror and a lens onto a parabolic table that functions like a screen. The presenter controls the mirror so that an image of the city can be seen on the table. This enables a "virtual" city tour to be carried out.Open: daily 9.30am-2.30pm.
- Karthauser Stud
- 2 Casa de Abrantes (Palace of the Dukes of Abrantes), Calle Porvera, 42.
- Mayor's office. Renaissance style from the 16th century.
- 3 Archaeological Museum, Plaza del Mercado. Museum founded in 1993 with artifacts such as a Corinthian helmet from the Guadalete River.
- The Circuito de Jerez. Located on the approx. 10 km east of Jerez Racetrack motorcycle and car races take place on the A-382. Formula 1 teams test their racing cars there in winter. Formula 1 races were also held there until the 1990s. Circuito de Jerez: The highlight of the season is the Spanish race for the MotoGP World Championship.
- Real Escuala Andaluza de Arte Equestre. The high schoolwho have favourited horse training, shown in the Plaza del Arenal. Every Thursday (from April to October also on Tuesdays) you can visit the Royal Andalusian School of Equestrian Arts the demonstration This is how the Andalusian horses dance admire them or watch them workout on the other days in the morning. The grape harvest takes place in September Feria de Otono instead of and there is at the Real Escuela additional special performances on Fridays and Saturdays. Tickets cost from 21 euros, and there are discounted tickets for students and pensioners (as of March 2014). At the site of the Riding school there are, among other things, the stables and a museum to visit. The Real Escuela is quite centrally located, you can also follow the signs for the well signposted Bodega Sandeman consequences. Parking behind the Real Escuela are signposted.Price: Visit to the facility and museum, adults € 6.50, 65+ € 3.25. Performances (Tues. and Thurs.) depending on the space from € 21, pensioners € 10.50.
- Jerez is the cradle of Sherrys, therefore there are several historical wineries, most of which can be visited. The difference to the "traditional" wine cellars is that the Bodegas in Jerez do not have a basement, but are at ground level and look more like warehouses.
- Ruins of the former sugar factory in the El Portal district. There are around 30 to 40 stork nests on the walls of the ruin.
Churches
- 4 Jerez Cathedral (Catedral de Jerez de la Frontera), Plaza Encarnación.
Near the Alcazar.Open: Mon-Sat 11.00-16.30, outside of masses.Price: Cathedral € 6.00; with ascent of the tower € 7.00 adults
- 5 San Miguel Church (Iglesia de San Miguel).In the Gothic-Baroque style.Open: Mon.-Sat. 11.00-16.30, outside of masses.Price: Adults € 4.
- 6 San Mateo Church, Calle Almendrillo, 7. Gothic style; oldest church.
- 7 Monasterio de la Cartuja de Santa Maria de la Defensión de Jerez (Carthusian monastery), Ctra. Jerez Algeciras, Km. 5. Late Gothic; now inhabited by a female order.
- 8 Santiago Church, Calle Merced, 5. 13th Century.
- Other church buildings in San Juan de los Caballeros; San Dionisos, San Mateo; every 13th century
activities
- It takes place annually at the end of February a two-week Flamenco Festival instead of.
- Feria del Caballo: The horse fair, the festival week, is in the park at the beginning of May Gonzalez de Hontoria. It dates back to 1284 and was initially a cattle market. There are numerous events, show jumping tournaments, dressage competitions, horse races, exhibitions and auctions.
shop
Generally
On the one hand you can find in the area around the 1 Plaza Arenal, where in Edificio Los Arcos is also the tourist information center, a larger pedestrian zone with many specialty shops and restaurants, as well as the fresh market in the immediate vicinity, on the other hand there are large markets on the green meadow along the periphery of the N IV.
sherry
The most important regional product is the sherry. The sherry is the designation of origin of various liqueur wines, which are in the so-called sherry triangle between El Puerto de Santa María, Sanlúcar de Barrameda and Jerez de la Frontera. Other places in the region also produce similar liqueur wines, which, however, are not allowed to be marketed under the term “sherry”. The term sherry is derived from the name of the city of Jerez.
Viticulture in the Jerez area has a three thousand year tradition. The Phoenicians were already growing vines, and wine was an important export item in the Roman Empire. Even in times of Moorish rule only part of the vines was cleared, raisins and alcohol for medicinal purposes were still allowed to be produced. At the end of 1587, Francis Drake raided the port of Cádiz, sank part of the Spanish armada and withdrew with a spoil of 2900 barrels of sherry. After another attempt by the British to conquer the port of Cádiz failed in 1625, a peaceful expansion of the trade in wines from the region followed. In the 18th century, many English, Scots and Irish started trading houses and their own sherry cellars. Garvey, Osborne, Sandeman, Byass, Williams and Humbert are just a few sherry houses of British origin. Often, for example at the Bodega Gonzalez-Byass, which still exists in Jerez, there was cooperation between the Spaniards and the British. During this time, the blending process that is still common today, the Solera process.
Only three white grape varieties may be used for the production of sherry. Namely the Palomino Fino, the Moscatel and the Pedro Ximenez. While the Palomino (France, South Africa) and Moscatel (Mediterranean area, Tokaj) also have other wine-growing regions, Pedro Ximenez, who was originally probably from the Rhine, is only of regional importance in Jerez and Malaga.
An important common feature of all Sherries is the Solera process. This is a maturing and blending process over several years. In the solera (bottom row of oak barrels with 500 to 600L content) a sherry approach is stored in the first year. The barrels are not completely filled and not closed in order to allow oxidation or maturation by aerobic yeasts, depending on the type of sherry. In the following years, new approaches, the criaderas, are stored in the rows above. If it comes to the first bottling, about a third of the solera is bottled and then topped up from the respective subsequent criadera. The missing part in the youngest criadera is then filled with a new approach. The result is a product that will be almost homogeneous and taste the same over the years. Once the solera with several criaderas has been set up, the system can remain in operation for an indefinite period of time.
The most famous fortified wines known as sherry are the Fino, the Amontillado and the Oloroso. The Fino is usually a 15% vol. Palomino fortified with alcohol, which matures in the solera process under aerobic yeast. The Oloroso has up to 20% alcohol. Yeasts can no longer exist with this alcohol content, an oxidation process takes place. The amontillado is a hybrid of the two processes. First it matures as Fino, then as Oloroso. To sweeten the wines, shortly before bottling, they are blended with Moscatel or Pedro Jimenez, whose wines, unlike Palomino, are made from dried grapes and therefore have a high residual sweetness.
Other varieties are the Manzanilla, a Fino produced in Sanlucar, the Cream, a blend of Oloroso with sweet wines or very sweet grape variety sherries from Moscatel and Pedro Jimenez, which are usually produced using the Oloroso process.
Numerous sherry cellars can be visited in Jerez.
- Sandeman near the riding school
- Gonzalez Byass; the producer of the 2 Tio Pepe at the Alcazar, opens 11.30 a.m.-2.30 p.m. and 3.30 p.m.-6 p.m.
- Real tesoro; with their own stud
- Bodega Tradicion; very old sherries; impressive collection of paintings
- Williams & Humbert; Producer of the Dry Sack, with in-house Museo del Jerez.
kitchen
nightlife
- 1 Puro Arte, Calle Madre de Dios, 10. Tel.: 34 660 030 420. Restaurant daily in the afternoon with flamenco music.Price: Flamenco dinner show (Sat., Sun. from 9 p.m.), € 45.
accommodation
Cheap
- 1 youth hostel (Albergue Inturjoven), Avda. Blas Infante, 30. Operated by the regional government. With pool and self-service cafeteria.Open: due to Renovation closed during 2020.Price: from € 16.50. chargeable Parking spaces.
- 2 Acampada Motor Jerez, CA-4103. Open: Opens around the days when the racetrack is used.Price: € 28 p.p. Vehicles.
medium
- 3 Vivian's Guest House, Calle Higueras, 17 (600 m from the train station to the city center, direction Teatro Villamarta). Tel.: 34649052686, Email: [email protected]. The hotel has been in existence for 40 years and was spruced up under new management in 2017. Double rooms or 8 bed dorms. Washing machine for a fee.Open: Reception until 9 p.m.Price: from € 30 (late arrival surcharge € 5).
Upscale
- 7 Montecastillo Barceló Golf Club, Av. de Montecastillo, Km. 6. Tel.: 34956151200. Golf course luxury hotel.
security
health
There are open on weekdays all over the city Centro de Salud, in which the European health insurance card is valid. An overview can be found at the state Servicio Andaluz de Salud.
Practical advice
- 4 Post office (Oficina de Correos), Calle Cerrón, 2. Open: Mon.-Fri. 8.30 a.m.-2.30 p.m. and 3.30 p.m.-8.30 p.m.
- 3 Do Colada Perfecta (Laundromat), Calle Diego Fernández Herrera, Local 5 (Part of the shopping center on Bahnhofplatz, at the roundabout around the corner). Open: daily 9.00-22.00.
trips
- The Laguna de los Tollos is a resort for migratory birds in spring and autumn. For observation is the 9 Caseta de Observación de Aves built up.
The approach, 17 km north of the airport, is via the A-480 and then the Carretera rural G7, which you turn into shortly before El Cuervo de Sevilla.
- The same applies to the one located south of the A381 (exit 4, at Los Barrios km. 11) 10 Laguna de Medina, which is designated as a nature reserve.
literature
Please refer Travel guide for Andalusia
Web links
- City administration website (sp.), in addition Culture and fiestas
- Transport network (sp., engl.)
