LOCATION
     

El Puerto de Santa María is situated in Cádiz a province in Southern Europe, Where the "Old Continent" is slightly separated from Africa by the Strait of Gibraltar.

Due to this privileged geographical position, Cádiz is at present able to offer some of the best tourist incentives of all the country.
 
Having coastlines on both the Mediterranean sea and the Atlantic ocean it provides two completely different kinds of beaches from Torreguadiaro to Sanlcar de Barrameda. They both share the attraction that, at some times of year, a visitor may believe that he has come upon a completely virgin beach.

El Puerto de Santa María, Chiclana and Cádiz, in the Bay of Cádiz, have acquired first rate tourist infrastructure. In el Campo de Gibraltar, an Roque and Tarifa have attracted international tourist attention which has also focused on Vejer, Conil and Barbate, in La Janda.

The Northwest Coast, which is at present completing its hotel infrastructure, is developing into a tourist centre with its own, unique personality.

Jerez, wordl famous as an equestrian, wine and brandy centre, leads the province´s bid for inland tourism. This city has captured world fame through the numerous sports events it hosts: World Motorbike Championships, the Volvo Masters and the Equestrian Games in the year 2002.

The area around Sanlúcar de Barrameda, though which the Guadalquivir flows, blends into Doñana, one of the Europe´s most important nature reserves.

The province also boasts two other very important nature reserves the Sierra de Grazalema and Los Alcornocales reserves where inland tourism has become the driving force of the economy of the Sierra de Cádiz and La Janda.

The Bay of Cádiz, made of the capital, El Puerto de Santa María, San Fernando, Chiclana y Puerto Real, has become in recent years, one of the most important tourist centers in Spain.

The Bay is a tourist symbol which is also being introduced into the international market and its millenary Atlantic beaches attract a great number of Spanish and foreign tourists.

El Puerto de Santa María have become tourist centres while developing their individual personality and improving their infraestructures to meet the ever greater national and international tourist demand.

San Fernando is characterised by its white saltflats and its beach Camposoto.

Puerto Real, with an important area of woodland and a great part of the Nature Reserve Bahía de Cádiz within its limits, has several potentials which, sooner or later, will be exploited.