Summary of year activities

Are you thinking to come to Jerez? Do you know when? If you don't know or you prefer visit Jerez in a special date, you can check the next video with the activities calendar.

The main events or feast days are:

·         The Flamenco Festival is world famous and is consider for many medias as the most important of world. There are a lot of performances and courses about flamenco.  The XVIII Festival of Jerez will be from 21st February to 8th March

·         Holy Week. 13th to 20th of April. Is one of the most important of Andalusia with more than 40 processions and the number is growing due to the growth of the city. This celebration starts the Palm Sunday and finished the Easter Sunday. The Jerez Holy Week has a big artistic, historical and cultural patrimony, and one of the older sculptures of Spain. Also, it is important the song of the Saeta that it is a flamenco style dedicated to the images in procession and usually is singing spontaneously.

·         Moto GP Grand Prix: It is one of the grand prix of "Road Racing World Championship Grand Prix". It is one of the most famous and important of the world due to the atmosphere and number of visitants. In 2007, the circuit achieved the assistance record to a sport event in Spain with 134,138 spectators. 28th of April to 4th of May.

·         Horse Fair (also known as Fair of Jerez or Fair of May). It is the most important celebration. It is declared as International Tourist Interest and is one of the most important and visited fair of Spain. It is celebrated in May and has hundreds of stands where can eat and drink the typical products of Jerez, Andalusia and Spain. The protagonist of the fair are horses and exist many horses shows. Unlike other fairs, anybody can entry to the stands because are publics. 11th to 18th of May.

·         Tour of Spain. This year the competition will start from Jerez the next 23th of August.

·         Grape harvest festival: Jerez celebrates this feast since 1948, during the first 2 weeks of September. The city usually organizes concert, theatres, touristic routes, artisanal markets, shows related to wine and a tapas’ fair. It is a big occasion to the tourist to know about the typical feast and the people of this city, because, this feast is dedicated to the habitants so the international tourist could feel like a local habitant. 9th to 14th of September.

·         Festivity of St. Dionisio and Blue and White night. 4th to 9th of October. The City Hall usually organise cultural activities like, free entry to monuments, museums, wineries and touristic routes.

·         Christmas in Jerez. 28th November to 6 of January. Christmas is living of special form in Jerez. Usually people meet to sing Christmas songs which are singing in flamenco and with local lyrics. Also It is typical the nativity scenes, there are several in all the city, in fact there is a nativity scenes museum opening during all the year.