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To see current prices for each rate (adults, children, students and infants), select your preferred date in the booking calendar. The price shown in the calendar is always the final price.
Check the available days and times directly in the booking calendar: it updates in real time according to the season.
There are three pick-up points in central Seville. The one you choose is also where the day ends.
C. Trajano 6, Casco Antiguo, 41001 Seville · View on Google Maps
C. Zaragoza 1, Casco Antiguo, 41001 Seville · View on Google Maps
C. Rastro 12A, 41003 Seville · View on Google Maps
Not every pick-up point is available on every date: the booking calendar shows which ones you can choose and the exact time. We recommend arriving with time to spare.
A professional guide for the day and round-trip transport from Seville.
A visit to a traditional sherry winery in Jerez, with a tasting of a selection of its wines.
Admission to the Royal Andalusian School of Equestrian Art in Jerez and its equestrian show.
A guided tour of the city of Cadiz.
Food and drink are not included. There is a break with free time for lunch.
The order of the visits may change depending on the group or the time of year.
Comfortable footwear. Cadiz is visited on foot, over cobbled streets and a seafront promenade.
The show is held in a covered arena with seating, so it goes ahead whatever the weather.
Bring some water and a snack for the road. In summer add sun protection and a hat; the Atlantic wind means a light layer is useful even then.
There is a break with free time for lunch. You can eat at a local bar or restaurant, on which your guide can make recommendations, or bring your own picnic.
Wine cellars are kept cool and dim all year round, so a light layer is worth having even in August.
Free cancellation up to 24 hours before the activity. You can cancel from the confirmation email you receive when you book.
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Horses that dance, wine that ages in tiers
Jerez de la Frontera gave the world two things it is still known for: sherry and the Andalusian horse. This is the fullest version of our day in the province of Cadiz, taking in a cellar, the riding school, and the oldest city in Western Europe.
South into sherry country
The drive from Seville crosses the fertile fields of the Guadalquivir valley and reaches Jerez in about an hour. The chalky white soil that appears along the way is albariza, the earth that holds winter rain through the summer and makes the wine possible.
A cellar and a tasting
The morning goes into one of the sherry wineries of Jerez, through the tall shaded naves where the casks are stacked in tiers. You will see how the solera system works, with wine drawn only from the oldest row and each row topped up from the one above, and taste a selection of the styles it produces.
The Royal Andalusian School of Equestrian Art
The centrepiece of the day is the show at the Royal Andalusian School of Equestrian Art, an equestrian ballet performed to Spanish music by riders in eighteenth-century dress. The horses move through the steps of classical dressage in formation, and the school has been performing it to international audiences for more than forty years.
Cadiz, and the Atlantic to finish
In the afternoon the group heads for the coast. A guided walk through Cadiz takes in the Plaza de San Juan de Dios, the cathedral with its golden dome and the old fishermen’s quarter of La Vina, with free time to eat and a last look at the ocean before the return to Seville.
Important: the order and format of the route may vary depending on the time of year, the weather, road conditions and each town’s local holidays. Your guide will organize the day in whatever way works best for the group.
Your questions answered
Frequently asked questions
Around ten hours. The exact departure time for your date appears in the booking calendar.
Yes. Admission to the Royal Andalusian School of Equestrian Art in Jerez and to its equestrian show is included in the price.
Yes. This version includes both: a visit to a traditional sherry winery with a tasting, and the equestrian show. Which cellar the group visits can vary with the date and the season.
The performance runs to around ninety minutes. It takes place in a covered arena with seating, so it is not affected by the weather.
The show is classical dressage rather than jumping, although it includes the airs above the ground, the leaps in which the horse lifts all four feet clear of the sand. These are the movements the school is best known for.
No. There is a break with free time for lunch, at a local bar or restaurant, on which your guide can make recommendations, or you can bring your own picnic.
Spanish, English, French and Italian. You choose when you book. Usually the guide runs the day in one language, although it is sometimes run in two at once, with the guide alternating between them.
From central Seville. There are three pick-up points and the booking calendar shows which ones are available on your date. The pick-up point is also the drop-off point.
Yes, round trip. You travel in a comfortable, air-conditioned vehicle, van, minibus or coach, depending on how many travelers have booked for that date. Some have a toilet on board; if yours does not, you can ask your guide to stop at a service area.
It depends on the bookings for each date, and groups are usually small. In high season the group is split into two or more subgroups: as a rule, groups are no larger than 30 people.
Less than on our other Cadiz routes, because a good part of the day is spent seated at the show. Cadiz is still visited on foot over cobbled streets, so comfortable shoes help.
Yes, and there is a reduced rate for children. The horses tend to make this the easiest of our Cadiz day trips for younger travelers. Children come into the cellar with the group but do not take part in the tasting.
We would not recommend it. The visits are made entirely on foot and much of the route is over uneven, cobbled ground.
Yes. Cancellation is free up to 24 hours before the activity.
Planning your visit to Jerez
Practical questions about the horses, the wine and the city, useful background before you travel.
A riding school and foundation in Jerez de la Frontera, dedicated to classical dressage and to the Andalusian horse. It trains riders and horses year round and is one of a small handful of classical riding schools in Europe, alongside Vienna, Saumur and Lisbon.
The school’s signature performance: an equestrian ballet in which horses and riders move through the figures of classical dressage to Spanish music, in eighteenth-century costume. It grew out of a display first given by Alvaro Domecq and has been performed for more than forty years.
The Pura Raza Espanola, a breed native to Andalusia, usually grey and known for a high, collected stride and an even temperament. Those qualities are what make it suited to classical dressage, and why it was the horse of choice in the riding academies of baroque Europe.
A fortified white wine, made mostly from the Palomino grape, that can only be called sherry if it comes from a small triangle of land between Jerez de la Frontera, Sanlucar de Barrameda and El Puerto de Santa Maria. The English word is an old rendering of the name Jerez.
A way of ageing wine by fractional blending. Casks are stacked in tiers, wine is drawn only from the oldest row, and each row is topped up from the one above. Nothing is ever emptied, so a glass poured today holds a trace of wine laid down decades ago.
About 90 kilometers, roughly an hour by road. Cadiz is a further 35 kilometers south, which is why the two of them fit comfortably into one day.
Flamenco. The neighbourhood of Santiago is one of the oldest cradles of the form, and the city has its own style of song, the bulerias de Jerez. It also holds the Feria del Caballo, a horse fair in May that takes over the whole city.
Spring and autumn. May brings the horse fair and September the grape harvest festival. July and August are very hot this far inland, although Cadiz on the coast stays noticeably cooler.
