It is from here that you will have the most beautiful view of the Cathedral.. The Alcázar forms part of the fortified 4000m long surrounding wall erected by the Almohades in the 12C, the remains of which are still visible in the streets.
The bullring, built in 1880, is one of the largest in Spain with a diameter of 60 m and seating for up to 12,000 spectators. The massive exterior with its multiple arches contrasts with the lightness of the interior.
This very well preserved archeological site reveals the amazing past of a place that was formerly a Roman industrial centre. The Natural surroundings, beach of Bolonia, are of spectaculary beautiful.
The Puertas de Tierra (Earth Gate) establish the limit between the old city and extrawalls of the new city. In its center is the main entrance of the city and during long time unique entered by earth.
Built on the site of a mosque, the collegial church of the Saviour was one of the first churches consecrated after the Reconquest. The present church is one of the largest religious buildings in Jerez.
Built in 1792 by the local architect Torcuato Benjumeda, the Royal prison was the first neoclassical building in Cadiz and is wholly representative of this style in Andalusia.
This is one of the main Baroque buildings in Cadiz. The building is organised around two patios linked by a wonderful monumental staircase under a vault.
This small chapel, a jewel of the neoclassical art, has exuberant decoration. In an elliptical shape, it is covered with a lunette dome borne on ionic columns.
In the 17C and 18C, the traders of Cadiz had more than 160 towers built to watch the arrivals of their boats but also as symbols of wealth and prestige.
Its Renaissance façade has, as the main elements of its decoration, grotesques and cupids alongside Hercules and Julius Caesar and flanked by the Cardinal Virtues.
The Charterhouse was founded in 1477. The Greek-Roman style portal is by Andrés de Ribera. The flamboyant gothic church has a highly decorated baroque facade.
In a fine private house in 19C French style, built by Charles Garnier (the architect of the Paris Opera) and surrounded by well-kept gardens, the Royal Andalucian School of Equestrian Art has established its offices.
This unusual group of more than 30 metres of underground galleries used to belong to a system of water conduits designed by Roman engineers in the 1C AD.
This was once the site of the Arab fortress that in 1264 became a Christian stronghold inside of which an inhabited quarter was built until the 16C. It was abandoned and used as a quarry.
With the Sun and Belén Arches, one of the three gates remaining from the medieval era. Built in the 10C, it is made up of a double broken horseshoe arch, carried by two large marble columns, probably of Phoenecian origin.
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