Flamenco's Fridays

As the last years, the city council organizes the Flamenco's Fridays. It is an event in which all the Fridays of August there are performances of flamenco in a monumental place of the city, the Alcazar ofJerez.

This year, the organization has focused in flamenco dance, so that all the performances will have the participation of an expert artist and other beginner.

• 1^st of August: Singer, Antonio Cortés "chiquetete”; and Salomé Ramírez and Carlos Carbonell dancers. The guitarist will be Periquín “Niño Jero”.
• 8^th of August: Singer, Juan Villar; and Saray Jiménez and Antonio Molina “El Choro” as dancers. The guitarist will be again Periquín.
• 15^th of August: Singer, Romerito de Jerez and the guitarist will be his son, "Romerito hijo". Fernando Jiménez and "La Lupi" as dancers.
• 22^nd of August: Singer, Juana la del Pipa, Antonio Jero as guitarist and Yessica Brea y Eduardo Guerrero as dancers.

The performances will start at 22:30 in Alcazarof Jerez and the price will be 10€. The tickets can be bought in the Tourism Office in Arenal Square or in Alcazar of Jerez from 20:30.

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Andalusian Flamenco Centre

(Spanish language sound but the video shows the CAF's facilities)

The Andalusian Flamenco Centre (CAF, initials in Spanish) is located in Santiago neighbourhood, one of the most famous neighbourhood of Jerez, due to many famous artist of flamenco have been born there.

The Andalusian Flamenco Centre headquarters is situated in PemartinPalace which was built in the 15th century, and has a beautiful baroque patio.

Currently, the Andalusian Flamenco Centre is the biggest institution regarding to the quantity of documents about flamenco, and all of them are available to all people, researchers, students or fans.

Despite the work in documentation, CAF develops the diffusion and promotion of the flamenco activities that have been organized in Spain or in the rest of the world.

The CAF receives thousands of guided visits during all year, in which, besides knowing Jerez and the palace where is located the CAF, they are lucky to watch movies and documental about flamenco in the screening room or access to all the information that the centre has.

Furthermore, there are more activities that the Andalusian Flamenco Centre offers as courses, contests, festivals, scholarships, flamenco art exhibitions with photos and paintings, congress, conferences and meetings, performances in the patio...

Moreover, CAF's facilities provide two permanent exhibition rooms where are exhibited portraits of the most important flamenco artists and a collection of flamenco's lithography of the 19th and 20th centuries. Also, usually the centre has temporary exhibitions of photographs, sculptures and old guitars.

Other services that the Andalusian Flamenco Centre offers:

Library: currently has 4,200 volumes which are classified in four thematic blocks, Flamenco, gypsies, Andalusia and other references. The specific monographs about flamenco are around 1,700 volumes which are virtually all of the bibliography about flamenco that exists around the world.

Newspaper files: From 1992 the institution has this service which is available for all users. This way, visitors can read news, reports or interviews about flamenco from 1886, when was published the first magazine about flamenco.

Sound library: The institution has around 75,000 registers which are recorded in discs, cassettes, LPs etc.

Video library: The Andalusian Flamenco Centre has around 1,300 videos, which are films, TV shows, live performances etc. All of them can be watched in the centre's rooms.

Finally, Andalusian Flamenco Centre has a large directory in which users can look for information and data about flamenco clubs, festivals, plus links to websites and blogs about flamenco.

Contact, visit and location

Address: Plaza de San Juan, 1. Postal code 11403

Telephones:

(+34) 956 349265

(+34) 956 322711

(+34) 956 321602

Fax: (+34) 956 321127

Email: flamenco.ccd@juntadeandalucia.es

Facebook: Centro Andaluz de Flamenco

Schedule: Mondays to Fridays from 9am to 2pm

Free entry

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Circuit of Jerez Museum

The Circuit of Jerez has recently opened its museum with the aim of the motorcycle fans, sport fans or tourists can walk through the history of this important circuit.

The museum has many objects linked to the history of circuit and the racings that have been raced there. Between the pieces that museum offers, visitors can see some F1 cars as for example, F1 Williams-Honda FW11, F1 Renault R30 or F1 Arrows A-20. Also, many drivers have loaned their clothes and helmets as for instance, the motorcycle’s drivers Carlos Checa, Jorge Lorenzo, Lucio Cechinello, Dani Pedrosa, Marc Márquez or Valentino Rossi; and in the case of the F1’s drivers, Marc Gene, Jaime Algersuari, Lewis Hamilton, Alex Wurz, Sebastian Bourdais or David Coulthard.

There is a collection of historical trophies and tickets of the circuit. There are some motorcycles of Ducati, Ossa or Bultaco.

Finally, the museum has a Honda simulator in which visitors can feel the excitement of driving a Honda motorcycle.

At the end of the visit, there is big official shop where visitor can buy the official products of the Circuit of Jerez.

Visit

Schedule:

Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday. From 9am to 3pm

Prices:

Children under 7 years old: free entry

From 7 to 18 years old: 3€

Adults: 6€

Retirees and students: 3€

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Fundador Pedro Domecq Wineries

These wineries are the oldest of Jerez, having the origin in the 18th century. The Fundador wineries' are composed by the wineries San Pedro, El Castillo, El Molino, La Tribuna, La Luz and La Mezquita.

La Mezquita's winery is a colossal building and is one of the biggest wine cellar of world. It was inaugurated in 1974, with the aim of celebrating the centenary of first Spanish brandy, Fundador.

Visiting this winery is a mix between history, architecture, art and wines which in 2005 won the award to the best winery of world by International Wines & Spirits Competition

The Beam Group is composed by three important wineries Fundador Pedro Domecq which was founded in 1730, Harveys which was founded in 1796 and Terry which was founded in 1865 in El Puerto de Santa Maria.

This Group has important brands in the wine sector due to Harveys is one of the most consumed sherry wine in the world and it is sold in the five continent; Fundador, the first Spanish Brandy, and Terry is one of the most famous Brandies of Spain.

The visitor can know the history of the three most important brands of the group. Also the visit include a tour of the different wine cellars of the 18th and 19th centuries, specially El Molino wine cellar where is located one of the older wine of Jerez and signing in barrels of famous people like, Alexander Fleming or King Alfonso XIII.

The visit begins with a video which explains the history, visit and wine cellar, then, a tour of wineries and a tasting of wines and brandies of the wine cellar: Terry Fino, Harveys Bristol Cream, Fundador and Terry Centenario. Finally, visitor can buy souvenirs or gifts in the souvenirs shop of the winery.

Visit

The duration is approximately 1 hour and 30 minutes.

Languages: Spanish and English. Other languages check.

Free Parking

The visitor can choose between some kinds of special visiting that can be consulted in the website or in the facilities

Price:

·         8€ visit+tasting

·         13€ visit+tasting+tapas

Schedules:

January, February, November and December:

·         From Mondays to Saturday 12:00, 13:00 and 14:00

From March to October:

·         From Mondays to Fridays 10:00, 12:00, 13:00, 14:00, 15:00, 16:00

·         Saturdays: 12:00, 13:00, 14:00

Special visit including La Mezquita wine cellar:

·         From Mondays to Fridays at 12:00

Special night visits: (July and August):

·         From Mondays to Fridays at 21:00 (Entry to Puerta de Rota)

Contact and location

Address: San Ildefonso, 3 Jerez de la Frontera

Telephone: 956 151 500

Web:  www.bodegasfundadorpedrodomecq.com

Email: visitas@bodegasfundadorpedrodomecq.com

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Pemartin Palace

This palace is also known as Palacio de los Marqueses de Mesa de Asta, and it is located in Plaza de San Juan (San Juan Square). The palace is headquarter of Andalusian Flamenco Centre.

Its construction began in the 15th century and its first owner was Alvar Lopez de Hinojosa who was politician of Jerez. Currently, the owner is the government of Andalusia, being the headquarter of the Andalusian Flamenco Centre where visitors can listen many disc and check out to biography and old data about this musical style. Also, there are daily projections of flamenco videos.

The palace has two floors. It highlights its Moorish decoration and stained glasses. The main door it is slightly to the left of the assembly of the facade.

Inside the building, there is a square patio that distributes the rooms of palace.

The Centro Andaluz del Flamenco (Andalusian Flamenco Centre) was founded in 1993 and is an Andalusian institution which has like aims the recovery, conservation, investigation and diffusion of flamenco.

The institution has plenty of material linked with flamenco: sound library with 15,000 recordings, videos, photos and library with 4,000 books.

Contact, visit and location

Address: Plaza de San Juan, 1. Postal code 11403

Telephones:

(+34) 956 349265

(+34) 956 322711

(+34) 956 321602

Fax: (+34) 956 321127

Email: flamenco.ccd@juntadeandalucia.es

Facebook: Centro Andaluz de Flamenco

Schedule: Mondays to Fridays from 9am to 2pm

Free entry

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Bullfighting museum

This museum is located in the city centre of the city and has a collection with many objects and artworks linked with bullfighting. Also, the museum has an important place dedicated to the breeding of bulls, very important in the outsides of Jerez.

The museum was built in an old wine cellar and conserved the typical structure of a winery.

Moreover, it is included in ticket, a tasting of typical tapas of the region.

Schedule: Monday to Saturday, from 10am to 2pm. Sundays closed, except reservation of groups.

Price: 2.40€ (with the price of the tasting included)

Address: Pozo del Olivar, 6

Telephone: 956 31 90 00

Website: www.alfonso-catering.com

Email: comercial@alfonso-catering.com

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Williams & Humbert Winery

Introduction

Williams & Humbert is a centenary winery which represents tradition and innovation in the sherry wine market sector.  The current winery was built during the 70's and is one of the most impressive and biggest wineries of the world which also has the National Award of Architecture. The winery is located in good place, next to the city centre of Jerez, and surrounded of gardens, being one of the most attractive and famous wineries of the region.

History

The wine cellar was founded in 1877 by Sir Alexander Williams and Arthur Humbert.

From the inauguration to nowadays, the winery conserve some wines and brandies which are keeping in oaks barrels of high quality. During the 60's, José Medina created his own winery and got success soon based in the international market. He and the Dutch multinational Royal Ahold bought Williams & Humbert, their last acquisition that is the brand of all their products.

Nowadays, the wineries are located in Jerez de la Frontera, El Puerto de Santa María and Sanlucar de Barrameda. The headquarters is the biggest winery of Europe and also has vineyards and a distribution company (Sovisur). The company sells its products in 80 countries and during the last years has diversified its market through ham and cheese.

Visit

Visitors can admire the huge ageing winery with 1 kilometre long where there are around 60,000 American oak barrels that can be observed from the spiral stair. Also there is a sculpture of the Virgin Mary with a candle which is turned on all days by the employees to ask for good work day; and a car Ford B of the year 1930.

Furthermore, the visitors will visit the most important room of the wine cellar, the Gran Duque de Alba room, where there is a museum of wine. There are all the tools used during the manufacture of wine, most of them from 18th century.

One of the most singular facilities of the winery is the horse facilities. The wine cellar offers horses' spectacles during the visits.

During the facilities, visitors can see some barrels which have been signed by famous persons who have visited the wine cellar. As examples, the Beatles, the Kings of Spain or the Queen of United Kingdom.

Finally, visitors have a tasting and aperitifs in which can admire the products of the winery.

The duration of the visit is around one hour and half.

Schedules: from Mondays to Fridays 10, 12 and 13:30. Afternoons and feast days only with reservation.

Contact:

Telephone: 956 353 400

Mobile phone: 677 452 256

Email: visitas@williams-humbert.com

Website: http://www.williams-humbert.com/

Address: Carretera Nacional IV Km 641 Postal Code 11408 Jerez de la Frontera

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