Jerez Guided Tour
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Experience Highlights
Learn and get to know the best of Jerez de la Frontera thanks to this guided tour of the city. Together with an art historian guide, you will discover its main stories during a walking tour of about 2 hours. You will observe and stop at the most famous and essential streets, monuments, buildings and statues of the city.
- Enjoy the history and art of Jerez thanks to this guided walking tour.
- Throughout the tour you will be accompanied by an art historian guide who will provide you with reliable information.
- You will see its most important monuments such as the Alcazar, the Cathedral, the Palace of the Marquis of Bertemati and many others.
What’s included
- Guided tour of Jerez
- Tourist guide
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Step by Step
Walk through the streets of Jerez de la Frontera while you learn about what you see thanks to this guided tour. You will spend about 2 hours touring the most important places of the city such as streets, buildings, monuments and squares of all kinds full of stories.
You will learn all these stories thanks to the tour guide who will accompany you throughout the tour. Moreover, he won't be just any guide, as he is an art historian. This will allow you to ask him all the questions you want and get an informed answer from an expert.
You will walk through the old part of the city where they will talk about the beginnings of the city and the mix of cultures that have made it what it is today. From the Romans, Visigoths, Muslims and Christians, all of these civilisations left physical remains as well as cultural aspects that you will learn about.
Some of the most important monuments you will see are closely related to the history of Jerez. The most remarkable ones you will pass by are:
- The Alcazar of Jerez: this is the oldest Almohad building in the Iberian Peninsula, built in the 12th century.
- The Cathedral of Jerez: here you can see the cohesion of Gothic, Baroque and Neoclassical styles in the same building.
- Church of San Miguel: the main Gothic church, declared a historic-artistic monument in 1931.
- Palace of the Marquis of Bertemati: inside the Islamic walls of the city you will find this historic building of public access.