Jerez Circuit

Description: Sports: Motorsport / Sport Topic: Motorsport Venues / The capital of sherry wine, the horse, and flamenco, Jerez, ... more

Jerez Circuit ... situated midway between the sea and the mountains, has a wealth of appealing tourist attractions, many of them related to the three preoccupations that made the city famous.

Newest Review: ... 1600 seat arena. After a disco style burst with laser lights, the distinctive tones of flamenco guitar take over and some ten riders dressed in 18th century country costume make their entrance. Then the impressive equestrian ballet begins. These dances are based on both classical, doma clasica, and country dressage, doma vaquera, as well as other specialised riding techniques. For example ... more

... the horses gallop around the ring making sudden changes of rhythm and spin tightly pivotting on a circle around their hind legs, all apparently in time with the music. This is the canter pirouette. Keep taking photos here, and if you capture them at the r...more

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Jerez Circuit: The Jerez Horses! (829 words)
by - written on 01/11/06 (Very useful, 233 readings)
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Jerez is situated 83 kms south of Seville and 30 kms North East of Cadiz in the plains south of the Rio Guadalquivir. Each of the many different cultures that have settled here over the past few centuries have had an enormous influence upon the physical appearance of Jerez . Archaeological remains from the Phoenician Xera, the strongly Roman Ceret, and the important Muslim Sherish,go side by side with the beauty of the later Christian buildings to offer a wide range of architectural styles and distinctive edifices which all combine to give Jerez a truly individual ambience of great beauty. It was a pleasure walking about Jerez, though the ... Read the complete review

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