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In the hills and mountains not plowed both alcornocales as (and especially) in the wild olive a leading livestock quintessential popular celebrations develops. The bravo bull has increased over the last decades throughout the Campo de Gibraltar, La Janda and the countryside of Jerez, helping the conservation of most pastures and farms in the environment. Directly associated with the secular establishment of livestock in these mountains and gaditanas countrysides, livestock is vertebró an intricate network of streams, strings and cast, usually joined at the resting places and watering holes. The enormous size and number of these cattle routes reflects the importance of livestock in these lands. At present, the absence of mass movements of cattle allows new tourist uses compatible with the conservation of this public domain of medieval origin. The route del Toro meets with his quaintness and artistic monumentality of true value, uniqueness that along its route can be seen the various herds of fighting bulls grazing in their fields, constituting the bull in its field natural, a picture of unusual beauty. When in the eighteenth century the spectacle of bullfighting starts to become knightly distraction in professional activity, the wild cattle is obliged to undergo a parallel […]

The need for defense of the province of Cadiz, subject from antiquity to all sorts of invasions by its strategic location between two continents, has left us a wide range of military buildings: castles, towers, fortresses, bastions and fortresses that dot the practice Cadiz entire geography. The defensive system of the lands of Cadiz, long time border during the wars of conquest, gave the province of fortifications that once Christianized, they became recognizable images of many of their people. Next to the medieval fortresses perfectly integrated into the urban ensembles, it occurs inside the solitary castles and towers strategically located on roqueras watchtowers from which spot the danger. On the other hand watchtowers on the coast, bastions and coastal castles that served as permanent vigilance against the risk of maritime invasions are drawn. The huge catalog of military architecture with which the province of Cadiz allows the particular organization of routes whose amplitude can be adapted to the seasonal availability of the traveler. Usually, castles and forts gaditanos are integrated into the urban environment or in different localities, counting some with established visiting hours. However, the varied circumstances of property or individuals, administrative offices, located in farms with restricted access, […]

White lime is linking with another village on the route north of the province through the Sierra de Cadiz, an abrupt course, tasty, green and exciting: the Route of the White Villages. In her stories survive what was the daily life of Al-Andalus: the urban layout of its streets, linked to growing oil economy, craft production of leather goods and fresh Andalusian recipes. A presence marked up in the name of most of the 19 villages that make up the route: Benamahoma, which means the house of Mohammed, Alcalá (the Castle), Algar (the cave), Zahara (strength). But the Berber heritage is mixed in this territory Roman roads, the Christian invasions, the conquerors of America, the arrival of the French troops, legends of brigands and sleepers a train that never arrived and today is the Greenway Sierra de Cadiz. Another of the most pronounced characteristics of the White Towns of Andalusia is the existence of a rich archaeological heritage that ranges from 250,000 years ago to the present. The use of water and oil production, meanwhile, have generated a high hydraulic engineering equity which highlights the mills, oil mills and other buildings. And so much history happens in a declared Biosphere […]