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.

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750th Anniversary

During this year, the city is celebrating that was conquered by Castile in 1264. Before that, the city was under almohads domain until the King Alfonso X “the wise" won the battle the 9th of October of that year.

Due to the multicultural society that Jerez had during all the centuries and the historical heritage, the city is celebrating this event with the aim of educate, commemorate and enhance the tourism image of the city with many cultural activities.

There are musical activities, conferences about the history of Jerez, wine activities...

More information: www.jerez750.com

The next video is a promotional video of this event. It is in Spanish, but the speaker says more and less the summary that I said before.

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One of the aims of the Jerez festival will be to promote of Flamenco between the kids

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 assistance and the importance of the festival are growing yearly and also the international assistance, being the most numerous Japanese and Germans. In the next video, you can watch a summary of the past festival.

The XVIII Festival of Jerez will be from 21st February to 8th March and will have different activities and courses. You can visit this website and download the English programme in the next link:
 http://www.jerez.es/fileadmin/Documentos/Festival_de_Jerez_2014/Programme_of_courses_and_workshops.pdf
Also, at the bottom of the next website you can find the programme in others languages:
http://www.jerez.es/index.php?id=festival-jerez

This year, one of the aims will be attract to the young people to the flamenco world and to achieve it, the organisation will visit many schools and high schools of Jerez to teach the flamenco culture and invite to the pupils to the general testing of one performance.

Other festival events are many exhibitions about flamenco, for instance, in the Gonzalez Byass winery there is an exhibition about Barbie (400 figures) which are wearing flamenco suits. On the other hand, there are some pictures and painting exhibitions like "Jerez & Japan: Flamenco & Gyotaku" in the Arab Baths.

Since last year there is an app to Iphone and Android with all the events and the information of the festival and also, there is an internet television in Vimeo which since last year has 800,000 users.

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The Airport expects a growth of 12% in the international passengers

Jerez has an International Airport which has connections with many european cities. The Airport called "La Parra" or Jerez de la Frontera Airport and the next year will expected an increase of 12% of passengers. The majority of the international passenger will arrive to Jerez by TUI and Thomas Cook tour operators.

Despite this good data, the City Hall and other political organisations are trying to increase the number of destinations.

The principal passengers that arrive to Jerez Airport are from Germany and also they are going to continue coming according to the managers of the Airport who think that the german passengers will growth during this year.

There are many airlines operating in the airport like Ryanair, Air Berlin, Iberia, Tuifly, Condor and others. Destinations as Hannover, Frankfurt, Munich, London or Brussels are some of the cities which are connected to Jerez.

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European Wine City 2014 Gala

During this year, Jerez is the European Wine City 2014 and the city will celebrate a lot of celebrations and events around the sherry wine.

These events will present during the European Wine City gala that will celebrate the next 21st and 22nd of February according to the organising committee which has presented today this gala. During the presentation, one of the members has said that these celebrations have to introduce the wine and the ways to consume it to the world.

Also, these galas are the same days that the Jerez Festival (International flamenco festival) and the Iberoamerican Forum Wine Business, so that weekend will be promotional days of Jerez around the world.

Moreover, the City Hall has organised many activities linked to wine intended to the Jerez habitants and the tourists. Also, there are many cultural activities like, free entry to monuments, museums, wineries and touristic routes.

The City Hall has called to habitants and tourists for participate the Saturday 22nd of February in the "toast to Jerez" that will celebrate in the Larga street.

Also that Saturday will be a special gala of "How the Andalusian Horses Dance" by The Royal Andalusian School of Equestrian Art Foundation.

The special gala will be the Saturday, 22th of february at 20:00 pm. Price 10€

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