Lonely Planet Andalucia

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• Publisher: Lonely Planet
• Year: 2019
• eBook ISBN:
  9781788681681
• Print ISBN:
  9781786572752

Cádiz Province & Gibraltar

Cádiz

The Sherry Triangle

Jerez de la Frontera

El Puerto de Santa María

Sanlúcar de Barrameda

Cádiz’ White Towns

Arcos de la Frontera

Grazalema

Zahara de la Sierra

Parque Natural Sierra de Grazalema

Olvera

Southeast Cádiz Province & the Costa de la Luz

Vejer de la Frontera

Los Caños de Meca

Zahara de los Atunes

Tarifa

Bolonia

Parque Natural Los Alcornocales

Gibraltar

Cádiz Province & Gibraltar

Why Go?

If you had to pick just one region to attempt to explain Andalucía in its full, complex beauty, it’d probably be Cádiz. Lying in wait across Spain’s southernmost province are craggy mountains, olive trees, fortified sherry, festivals galore, flamenco in its purest incarnation, the font of Andalucian horse culture, and a blond-sand coastline, the uncommercial Costa de la Luz, sprinkled with surfer-cool towns like Tarifa. And then – just when you thought you were getting a handle on it – there’s the idiosyncratic British anomaly of Gibraltar.

Packed in among all this condensed culture are the expansive Sierra de Grazalema and Los Alcornocales natural parks, an unbroken tract of land from Olvera in the north to Algeciras in the south. The same line once marked the ever-changing frontier between Christian Spain and Moorish Granada, and that ancient border remains dotted with castle-topped, whitewashed towns, many with a ‘de la Frontera’ suffix that testifies to their volatile history.

Driving Distances

Best Places to Eat

A Aponiente

A El Jardín del Califa

A Café Azul

A Casa Balbino

A Casa Manteca

A Albores

Best Places to Stay

A V…

A La Casa del Califa

A Hostal África

A Riad

A Parador de Cádiz

A Hostal Alcoba

Cadiz Province & Gibraltar Highlights

1 Tarifa Soaking up the kitesurfing, wind-surfing and beach-lazing scenes.

2 Jerez de la Frontera Unravelling a fashionable world of flamenco, horses, sherry and bodegas.

3 Cádiz Travelling through 3000 years of history as you wander Cádiz’ sea-encircled old city.

4 Vejer de la Frontera Getting lost in white-town ...

Table of contents

• Table of Contents
• Welcome to Andalucía
• Andalucía’s Top 17
• Need to Know
• What’s New
• If You Like
• Month by Month
• Itineraries
• Eat & Drink Like a Local
• Activities
• Travel with Children
• Regions at a Glance
• Sevilla Province
• Seeing Flamenco
• Huelva Province
• Cádiz Province & Gibraltar
• Málaga Province
• Córdoba Province
• Jaén Province
• Granada Province
• Teterías & Hammams
• Almería Province
• Understand Andalucía
• Andalucía Today
• History
• Andalucian Architecture
• Landscape & Wildlife
• Arts & Culture
• Bullfighting
• Directory A-Z
• Transport
• Language
• Map Legend
• Behind the Scenes
• Our Writers