Jerez de la Frontera, Spain Hotels, Vacations, Tourism

JEREZ DE LA FRONTERA , inland towards Sevilla, is the home and heartland of sherry (itself an English corruption of the town's Moorish name – Xerez ) and also, less known but equally important, of Spanish brandy. An elegant and prosperous town, it's a tempting place to stop, arrayed as it is round the scores of wine bodegas with plenty of sights to visit in between. Life is lived at a fairly sedate pace for most of the year here, although things liven up considerably when Jerez launches into one or other of its two big festivals – the May Horse Fair (perhaps the most snooty of the Andalucian ferias ), or … more »