THE ENVIRONMENT OF CHIPIONA



THE PERITANDA PINE FOREST

It is situated 3,5 kms outside Chipiona, but still inside the Chipiona community. Here you find a continuous process of replantation of diverse arboreal and floral species. You will also find the municipal camping here, the shelter Puente Zuazo and the approach road to the nearby beaches of Las Tres Piedras.

SANLÚCAR DE BARRAMEDA

8 kms. Visit the Palace of Orleans and Borbón, the actual Town Hall. Also visit the Convent of Santo Domingo, the old ice factory, and make an excursion from Bajo de Guía to the Coto Doñana National Park. Do not forget a visit to one of the Manzanilla wine cellars.

JEREZ DE LA FRONTERA

29 kms. Visit Alcázar (Fortress) and the Mesquita (Mosque), Cathedral, “El recreo de las cadenas” with their spectacle “how the Andalusian horses dance”, Museum of the Clocks, Archaeological Museum, wine cellars Domecq, Sandeman, Garvey and other.

ROTA

18kms. Visit the Castillo de Luna, actual meeting room for the Town Hall. Visit the Parish Church Nuestra Señora de la O.

EL PUERTO DE SANTA MARÍA

29kms. Visit the Prioral Church, the Bullring, the Castle of San Marcos, the Rafael Alberti Museum and the wine cellars. From here you can take the “varpocito” or the catamaran to Cádiz.

CADIZ

51kms. Visit the oldest town of Europe walking the narrow streets. See the narrow streets, the alleys, the corners with sun and shade, symbolic places like the Cathedral, the Tavira tower, the San Felipe oratory, the Santa Cueva oratory, the Cádiz Museum and much more.

THE ROUTE OF THE WHITE VILLAGES


Arcos de la Frontera, with its narrow streets united with arches, its churches, its lake. Bornos, with boat trips, the Roman ruins of Carisa Aurelia. El Gastor, the balcony of the white villages. Villamartín, from where the mountains of Cádiz start, with its Prioral church from the century XVI. Algodonales, where the world championships of paragliding is celebrated, with a gastronomy typical for the mountains of Cádiz. Olvera, Torre Alháqime and Setenil de las Bodegas with its remainders of Arabian settlements, walls, houses excavated in the rocks, tranquil places in the mountains.

THE MOUNTAIN ROUTE


From Arcos to El Bosque, with Europe’s most southern trout river, the most important point of tourism in the mountains. Ubrique, the cradle of leather, in a valley, surrounded by mountains in the north and the Gibraltar landscape in the south, with pathways to get known in the surroundings, with Roman ruins along the pathway to Benaocaz. Grazalema, surrounded by the mountains, situated in the centre of the Nature Park that has the same name, with cork oak, with a unique specie of Spanish firs, with a variety in gastronomy.

THE OX ROUTE


Jerez de la Frontera; San José del Valle in the zone between countryside and mountains, a route in the mountains “La Sal” and the mountains “Las Cabras”, through Llanos del Valle and Boca de la Foz; Medina Sidonia, on the heights with steep roads from where you can see the Atlantic coast, the mountains and the countryside, natural fountains with health giving minerals; Paterna de la Rivera with its Arab castle Gigonza and its horse breeding of “hispanoárabe” horses; Alcalá de los Gazules, in the Nature Park Alcornocales, with its spiked mountain tops in the geographical centre of the Cádiz province; Benalup, with its grotto “Tajo de Figuras”; Castellar de la Frontera, with its view to the antique walled village, declared as historic/artistic monument in 1963.

THE COAST ROUTE


Tarifa with the beaches “Las Lances”, declared as Nature zone, with the castle of “Guzman el bueno” between two oceans that unite winds from east and west, and make the area attractive to windsurfers. You can visit the Roman ruins of “Baelo Claudia” in Bolonia; Barbate, the tuna fish village, the beaches of the villages Caños de Meca, Zahora or Zahara de los Atunes, the Nature Reserve of “La Breña y marismas”, protected zone since 1994; Conil de la Frontera, with its beaches such as Castilnovo or Fontanilla or coves such as “La Encendía” or “Aceite” with replantation of pine; Vejer de la Frontera, between countryside and ocean, declared as Nature Monument with its medieval streets; San Roque and its golf courses with an eventful landscape with the mountains of Almenara, Arco and Carbonera (from where they have brought the material to build the lighthouse of Chipiona); Numerous are the populations that are included in the province of Cádiz, all in one in this province with such variety – history, landscape, fauna, flora, climate, gastronomy – always surprising to the visitors with huge variations during the different seasons of the year.