Sancti Petri, Barrosa Beach and Puerto De Santa Maria

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This weekend we visited one of the best beach in Spain which is located in Sancti Petri, province of Cadiz. If you travel south of Spain don’t miss the opportunity to see this amazing place.

Get ready for luxury hotels, stunning golf course, endless beaches, big waves and fresh fish served in local restaurants.

The province of Cadiz is full of people during August. Infinite beaches, spectacular sunsets and probably the best tuna in the region attract the tourist from all over the world. Tarifa is famous to be the world’s capital of wind and kite surfing. The next on the way from Marbella is Chiclana de la Frontera, that is to say Sancti Petri, an island with a castle, with the Barrosa beach that suddenly becomes irresistible. There is an old historic Sancti Petri and the new one or Novo, which is the the capital of tourism here with the largest amount of hotels in Costa de la Luz. Vacation paradise and the pearl of the Atlantic ocean in Spain.

La Barrosa!

There are others but La Barrosa, is the beach with capital letters. You just have to see it. Almost eight kilometers, from the cliff that separates it from Sancti Petri, to the Loma del Puerco. There is room for promenade, lovely beach bars (Mojama Beach, Athens Beach), luxury hotels …. A place to get lost, to meet, to respect the whims of the sea and the sand (the dunes persist) or to surf.

The old and the new Sancti Petri. It was in 1973, according to the chronicles, when the Almadrabero Consortium was dissolved that made the town of Sancti Petri empty and soon it became a ghost town. It took 17 years for it to be rebuilt, as Novo Sancti Petri in 1990. It even has a golf course designed by Severiano Ballesteros and opened by Don Juan de Borbón.

You have to go to see the chiclanera church of San Juan Bautista, a masterpiece of the Cádiz neoclassicism (18th century), the hermitage of Santa Ana, one of the seven magical points of the town, from the same era – the one of greatest splendo , and the church Vera Cruz, from the 15th century. Do not miss the Clock Tower, the Bermeja or the Puerco, on the Barrosa beach; the palace houses, which are neither one nor two, and the Plaza Mayor, where Casa Briones stands. And cross the bridges over the Iro River that link the two parts of the city: the Band and the Place.

Where to eat and sleep

400 meters from La Barrosa, is the Vincci Costa Golf hotel, where you can practice various sports: horse riding, golf, hiking, surfing or adventure. It does not lack the beach bar to be delivered to the fried fish or fish of the day. This is also the territory of Meliá Sancti Petri, a whole Andalusian palace of Nasrid style, a great luxury resort, which houses the Alevante restaurant of the always surprising Angel León (a sailor on land and at sea), also the owner of the Aponiente (El Puerto de Santa María), where you can try the plankton with rice or the potatoes with choco, complimented with the wines of the Land of Cádiz. And this is only the beginning.

Puerto De Santa Maria

About 30 minutes drive from Sancti Petri there is a famous Puerto De Santa Maria.

There are several historical figures that left their significant mark on El Puerto. One of them is Alfonso X the Wise who reconquered The Port of Muslims. Christopher Columbus was here preparing his second trip to the New World. And speaking of the New World, one of the caravels of the first expedition of the “Journey of Discovery”, the Santa Maria, was built in El Puerto de Santa María.

Taking a walk through the center of El Puerto you will see the Castillo de San Marcos, one of the inescapable places of El Puerto. It is a fortress castle that Alfonso X the Wise built on an old mosque.