Calle Larga (Larga Street)

Calle Larga (Larga Street)

This street is one of the most important of Jerez centre, such its history and architecture, as commercial and leisure characters. It is full of shops, restaurant and coffee shops so it is a good walk to locals and foreign.

At the end of the16th century, the city hall to the aim to get extra incomes allowed the construction of housing attached to the wall. Nowadays, the wall can see in the interior of some business (for instance, in the bar "La moderna").

The Larga Street became from its beginnings in a commercial and festive place due to, it connects with some important squares and streets.

In 1855 were planted orange trees and the street was embellished, also a building was felled to allow the access to the Plaza del Banco.

Later, in 1910, was installed the Local Telephonic Centre and after that was built the Hotel Los Cisnes (The Swans Hotel), which was an emblematic place in the city due to the important and famous people were accommodated in this hotel, currently is a mall.

In the 60's, the environment created by the bar and coffee shops was changed by shops so the festive environment decreased. Between the 80's and 90's, the traffic was intense so the street was pedestrianized and the festive environment came back.

There are buildings from the Jerez conquest to buildings of the 20th century, we have to highlight: St. Domingo convent, Villamarta palace (16th century), Gallo Azul, Gran Peña building and La moderna, one of the most emblematic bar of the city with more than 100 years of history and in its interior there is part of the city wall.

The street have two sections, the first one is a pedestrian zone which begin in the Gallo Azul and finish in the "Rotonda de los Casinos", and the second one with little road from the "Rotonda de los Casinos " to "Alameda Cristina".