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Excursions & Tours
With our expert travel partner Iberoservice, we do offer guided tours through some of the most fascinating parts and places of Andalucia. Any tour can be tailored to your personal needs. We recommend you, apart from playing golf on our golf course and relax on our beaches, sightseeing tours and excursions in Andalucia. We also offer private sightseeing tours, bike tours an, walking tours for schools and (corporate) groups. See some of Andalucia's landmarks and attractions, including Cadiz and Ronda old towns and many many more. Our tour guides will tell you all kind of interesting facts and information about Andalucia. Feel free to e-mail or call us for more information about sightseeing in the province of Cadiz and the rest of Andalucia and find out what we can do for you and your group visiting here.
Visit a Bodega - learn about Sherry
When you visit Andalucia and the province of Cadiz in particular you should visit a Bodega in Jerez or Puerto Santa Maria take a tour of at least one of its wineries. This includes wine tasting and the possibility to buy to prefered prices. Some of the most recogenized bodegas include: Gonzalez Byass, Sandeman, Domecq, Harveys, Williams & Humbert and Garvey. The various wine tasting tours which are provided by each of the bodegas above includes information about the history of their company, however all within the general context of the history of sherry. Below we've listed all the main wineries in Jerez with a short explanation of their tour and contact details. Private tours will usually be arranged on request.
Choose among the different Bodegas in Jerez and Puerto Santa Maria:
Gonzalez Byass
Established: 1835
Address: c/ Manuel María Gonzalez, 12
Tel: 956 357 016
As producers of the world famous Tio Pepe sherry this is the most famous and most visited of the wineries It is actually the 2nd most visited winery in the world). The novelty factor of their tour is a miniature train which transfers you around the complex. The tour begins at their most prestigious cellar called La Concha then takes you to a larger cellar where the alcohol smell is quite wonderful. An audi-visual show tells the story of the company's development and a visit to the barrel room where celebrities have signed their names in chalk is very interesting. Look out for the glass of wine and piece of cheese on the floor which is placed there every day for the cellar mouse. The tour ends with an opportunity to taste the sherry then you leave via the winery shop.
Websites: www.gonzalezbyass.com / www.bodegastiopepe.com
Sandeman
Established: 1790
Address: c/ Pizarro, 10
Tel: 956 312 995
If you're pushed for time in Jerez this is a good winery tour to select because it is right next to the Royal School of Equestrian Art where the dancing horses show takes place. Therefore, you can walk from the horse show directly to the Sandeman tour and tasting. The tour takes you into several wineries for their different sherries including Fino and Oloroso then you get to see the bottling area and go for a tasting session.
Website: www.sandeman.com
Domecq
Established: 1730
Address: San Ildefonso, 3
Tel: 956 151 500
The is Jerez's oldest cellar where a guided tour takes you through the winery's history with a audio visual presentation and takes you into Bodega de la Luz where Spain's first brandy, Fundador, was born. The tour naturally concludes with the best bit .. the tasting and the shop visit.
Website: www.domecq.es
Harveys
Established: 1796
Address: c/ Pintor Muñoz Cebrián
Tel: 956 151 500
On this tour the guide explains the process of making and ageing Harvey's sherries in one of their historical cellars along Calle Arcos where the world famous Bristol Cream brand was born. The tour culminates in the tasting of Harveys Bristol Cream in the 19th century Don Ramiro patio.
Website: www.domecq.es
Williams and Humbert
Established: 1877
Address: Ctra. Nacional IV, Km.641.75 (Jerez-Puerto de Santa Maria)
Tel: 956 151 500
A personal favourite purely because they produce Gran Duque de Alba brandy (my chosen brand). This is the largest bodega complex in Europe which has been producing some of Jerez's finest wines for over 200 years. As well as a tour of their installations there is a horse exhibition on Wednesdays and Fridays.
Website: www.williams-humbert.com
Garvey
Established: 1776
Address: Ctra. Circunvalación, s/n
Tel: 956 319 650
A fascinating history of a young man from Dublin who settled in Jerez and sent small amounts of wine back to Ireland and England. His son developed the business as the Bodega de San Patricio which became the city's largest for over 125 years occupying 30,000 square metres. He was the first to export fino from Jerez and in 1858 was responsible for exporting the first barrel of brandy which sailed from cadiz for London. You can learn more about this fascinating story and the process of wine and brandy production on the Garvey tour. Full day wine tasting courses with lunch can be arranged.
Websites: www.grupogarvey.com / www.visitabodegas.com
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City & Rural Tours
Whitewash is the common denominator of the villages along the Route that cross the north of the province through the Sierra de Cadiz mountains, a rugged, delightful, green and exciting route: the White Villages Route. Stories still survive here about how people lived during the Al-Andaluz period: the urban layout of their streets, the economy linked to producing oil, the traditional means of producing leather goods and the typical sweets dating back to the Andalusi era. A noted presence even in the name of the majority of the 19 villages along the route: Benamahoma, which means the house of Mohammed, Alcalá (the Castle), Algar (the cave), Zahara (the fort). Yet the Berber heritage here blends in with the Roman roads, the Christian invasions, the American conquerors, the arrival of the French troops, the legends of the bandits and the railway track of a train that never run and which today is the Greenway of the Sierra de Cadiz.
For more information which routes you can choose to visit try the following comprehensive link: www.cadizturismo.com. Besides get some visual impressions of the follwing villages and cities of Andalucia.
Click on the links below to watch videos about the different villages and cities.
