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CÁDIZ Province

The province of Cádiz

The province of Cadiz offers, on one hand, the magnificent beaches of the Costa de la Luz and on the other hand nature in all it's glory in the nature reserve of Grazalema and the nature reserve of Alcornocales amongst others.

Cádiz City

Las Puertas de Tierra establecen el límite entre el casco antiguo de la ciudad y extramuros

With it’s around three thousand years of history, it is the oldest city of Europe, where Fenicians, Carthagenes, and of course Romans have had their settlements.It is an open port to the Atlantic and it has it's proper beach. The people are warmhearted, open and friendly.

A view of Cádiz from the beach. You can see clearly where the city begins.

Some scenes of Die another day, the latest James Bond movie were shot in Cádiz (in the role of La Habana, Cuba).

The city of Cádiz has a close relationship with Cuba, due to the continuous traffic from it’s port with the former colony, and there is a surprising similarity between Cádiz and La Habana, reason for which the city was chosen to shoot some scenes of Die another day, the latest James Bond movie.

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Cadiz Beaches - Costa de la Luz

Beaches of Cadiz - Costa de la Luz

The province of Cádiz offers a marvellous coastline and beaches, that, for the time being, has been spared from massive construction.

Costa de la Luz IT - Spiagge di Cadice
Costa de la Luz DE - Strände von Cadiz
Costa de la Luz NE - Stranden van Cadiz

From Cádiz City to Tarifa in the south you can still find some less crowded and rather viriginal beaches of which Los Caños de Meca and Zahora in the municipal term of Barbate, Zahara de los Atunes and Bolonia in Tarifa, and El Palmar in Vejer can be highlighted. In Conil you can find 14 kms of very varied beaches: from long sandy spots to lonely coves very appropriate for the nudism. And near Conil you will find Chiclana de la Frontera, with its famous beaches of La Barrosa and Sancti Petri.

Tarifa is very popular and famous for it’s splendid wind-surfing possibilities. Is the most southern point of the peninsula, bathed by waters of the Estrecho of Gibraltar and as opposed to the African coasts (15 km).

Lighthouse of Chipiona, the biggest of Spain.

From Cádiz City to the north you find other nice coastal towns, but with a different character, like Chipiona, Sanlucar de Barrameda and El Puerto de Santa María. . Many people go there to enjoy good sea-food.

Every year in Sanlúcar a horse-race on the beach is held. This Festivity is declared as International Interest.

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Tourism essentials in the province of Cadiz

Cadiz - Hostels en la provincia
Cadiz - Hotels en la provincia
Cadiz - White villages
Beaches of Cadiz - Costa de la Luz
Cadiz - Nature reserves

Towns in Cadiz Province

Andalusia Spagna IT
Andalusien Spanien DE
Andalusië Spanje NL

Jerez de la Frontera

30 km from the capital we were with the monumental Jerez de la Frontera, city of resistances, that harmonizes between its walls the secular tradition of its warehouses, the horses and the echoes of the flamenco.

Also it emphasizes by the Motorcicle World-wide Championship in the Circuit of Jerez.

The White Villages

Area Recreativa de Arroyomolinos - La Playita (foto Ayto Zahara de la Sierra)

To the northwest of the province are located the famous White Villages of Cadiz, calls thus because all of them have a common denominator: surroundings of escepcional beauty, narrow streets, great slopes and adorned white houses with flowers.

This towns are: Arcos de la Frontera (entrance gate to White Villages), Algodonales , Setenil, Zahara de la Sierra with the Castle , the Garganta Verde and caves Hundidero del Gato; the beauty Grazalema, Villaluenga del Rosario (The most height), Benaocaz, Benamahoma and El Bosque, and finally Ubrique, the greater one of the villages.

Nature

Cádiz is the most southern province of the Iberian Peninsula. It is extremely rich in natural beauty and some of the most important Natural Parks of Spain and Europe are found here: Sierra de Grazalema and los Alcoronocales. Both are rich in flora and fauna, including species under threat of exinction like the "Pinsapo" in Grazalema.

Many birds find here their resting and feeding place just after or before making the jump from or to Africa.

Majaceite River, between Bosque y Benamahoma Towns

Also exists many others natural spaces declared in the province, like the Bahía de Cádiz and Acantilado y Pinar de Barbate Natural Parks, and beautiful places as the Garganta Verde in Zahara de la Sierra and The Dune of Bolonia in Tarifa.