Jerez de la Frontera, Spain - Sherry, Horses and a Colorful Festival

Jerez de la Frontera, Spain

Sherry, Horses and a Colorful Festival

Jerez de la Frontera is great to combine with a visit to Cadiz.

In Jerez, you’ll find some of the world’s finest Sherry.

It is also well known for horse shows.

Bodega Williams & Humbert is one of the oldest and biggest bodegas in Jerez.

Huge caves where over 50.000 barrels are stored, slowly maturing to perfection.

Stored in a pyramid shape, the Sherry needs at least five years to mature.

The lowest barrels are emptied only one-third, then filled up from the above one to guarantee the continuity of quality and flavour.

A part of the caves is a museum that exhibits interesting tools, scales and seals used in the past century.

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Jerez de la Frontera is the Royal School of Equestrian Art seat.

You can enjoy the show and performance of the high art of dressage in an adjacent arena.

The horses used are bred locally by the monks of a monastery called La Cartuja on the outskirts of Jerez.

The monks have done so for over 600 years.

These horses with a good part of Arab blood are smaller than the pure-race Arabs.

They are solid and highly agile, making them particularly suitable for dressage.

A particularity is that they are all black when they are born.

Then over five years, they change colour, some even turning pure white.

It´s beautiful to watch a symphony of rider and horse welded together in something that looks like a horse ballet.

Click here for tickets and check out more about the shows.

Events and Festivals

feria de caballo jerez, spain

A main event in Jerez is Feria del Caballo.

A colorful festival with horse-shows and parade.

Destination

Check-in date

Mon 29 May 2023

Check-out date

Tue 30 May 2023

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Hotel Tips

There are over 50 accommodations here and many nice hotels with spas and beautiful surroundings.

You can choose among Hotels, Apartments, Guest houses, Bed and Breakfast

spahotel_on_beach

If you prefer to stay by the beach and take day trips from there, we can recommend Hipotels Barrosa Palace & Spa in Novo Sancti Petri.

Just 35 kilometres from Jerez de la Frontera.

Read more and secure a room here

Tours and things to do in Jerez de la Frontera

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