Cadiz Information: JEREZ
DE LA FRONTERA |
Declared an artistic-historical site, Jerez de la Frontera contains
remains from the Almohad walls, the Arab Alcazar (fortress palace)
and el Cabildo or town hall, which features a plateresque front. The
town's main religious buildings include the filigree-adorned Gothic
cloister of Santo Domingo Church, as well as San Miguel, which was
begun in the fifteenth century and houses a superb altarpiece on which
Martrnez Montanes worked. From the whole of the Cathedral, which was
completed by Torcuato Cayon, the most human work of art is perhaps
la Virgen Nifia, a beautiful painting by Zurbaram. La Cartuja (Carthusian
Monastery) de Nuestra Señora de la Defension was founded in
1476 only a few kilometres from Jerez. Having been expelled following
the disentailment of Church land, the Carthusians returned in 1948.
The monastery front is fully Baroque (1667), and stands out for its
theatrical and affected air that eclipses any other facade of this
kind. It displays a magnificent set of columns, sculptures and urns,
with the Gothic rose window clearly the main feature. Inside, the
monastery has late-Gothic cloisters and crenellations, and Renaissance
pieces such as the plateresque pulpit in the refectory.
It is considered to be the finest architectural monument in the province.
The Royal Andalusian School of Equestrian Art stages This is How Andalusian
Horses Dance, a performance which can contain up to 60 Carthusian
horses, a species that dates back to the thirteenth century and which
was cared for by the monks on their own land, and later by other breeders,
producing a thoroughbred of great strength and elegance. The horses
display all their beauty, rhythm and skill in this spectacle staged
in the Recreo de las Cadenas, built by Charles Garnier (1825-1898),
the architect responsible for the Paris opera house. Jerez bodegas.
They can be spectacular in their architecture, or in the number of
barrels or the size of the casks used. Famous bodegas that can be
visited include Domecq and Gonzalez Byass. There are also bodegas
that rely on purely traditional craft methods, where it is perhaps
easier to gain an insight into the fascinating world of fino wine.
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