Vejer de la Frontera - Cádiz

This beautiful town is located at the foot of the road N-340, from Cádiz to Algeciras. At the km 34 it is located the first access, the most used, further on, at the kilometre 36, there is another one that flows nearer the town hall. You also can access from the road of Barbate, near the Sanctuary of La Virgen de la Oliva. The nearest airports are the ones of Jerez de la Frontera and Málaga, and if you come by railway, Cádiz.

You take few time to get the best and most virgin Spanish beaches: El Palmar, Los Caños de Meca, Conil, Zahara de los Atunes, Bolonia (impressive beach with Roman ruins), and pine forests that are Nature Reserve. Around Vejer there are the best Fighting Bulls (Toros Bravos) ranch and fantastic restaurants where you can taste the best fishes and shellfish of the area. To few kilometres we can find Algeciras and Tarifa, from where you can go Africa crossing the Strait of Gibraltar in two hours.

As far as the history of this municipality, in the hill over Vejer is located (to 190 metres above sea level), there are testimonies about the ancient human presence. Under the walls have appeared materials from the Bronze Age and recent archaeological studies have revealed the existence of an Orientalizing Period town from the VII century B.C. In the same place there were found some materials and remains of walls from the Turdetani Age, just as some pottery from the Roman Age. In its municipal area there was found a Roman villa with rich tiled floors and in the Hermitage of La Oliva is preserved a Roman inscription reutilized in the Visigoth Period. We can emphasize from the Roman presence the "villa de Libreros" and the "Horno del Chorrillo".

In 711 the Batalla de la Janda took place, where the North African troops of Tarik defeated D. Rodrigo. From that moment and during five and a half centuries, Vejer was under Muslim control, being object of enrichment of the magnificent Arab – Islamic culture from what we have some traces like the door of the castle (XI century), part of the walls and the framework of its streets.

Monuments

Walled Enclosure
Puerta de Sancho IV
Arch of La Villa
Arch of La Segur
Puerta Cerrada
Tower of La Corredera
Tower of El Mayorazgo
Tower of San Juán
Castle
Casa del Mayorazgo
Casa Solariega del Marqués de Tamarón
Church of the convent of La Concepción
Parish Church of El Divino Salvador
Sanctuary of Ntra. Señora de la Oliva
Tower of El Palmar 
Windmills 
Anthropomorphic Graves of the Village Neveros

Interesting Routes

Route of Los Patios
Route Buenavista
Route of Los Molinos
Route Monumental

Gastronomy

Vejer de la Frontera has a great variety of products from the land and the sea. The excellent quality of the vegetables, the meat from Retinto (dark brown) that graze in the lands, the fish of our coasts and the exquisiteness of its traditional receipts (cabbage stews, asparagus and golden thistles, lomo en manteca, confectionery...) allows the traveller to taste and enjoy a good cooking.

How to get there

If you come from the centre of Spain, you have to take the Motorway A-4 -Ctra. de Andalucía- once you have passed Sevilla, continue towards Cádiz -by AP4- continue until the exit 101, and there take the A-48 towards Algeciras. In the Exit 36 you get Vejer de la Frontera.

Distances

To Cádiz 54 km
To Algeciras 69 km
To Málaga 203 km
To Tarifa 50 km
To Jerez de la Frontera 64 km