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Jerez lays some nine miles inland from the sea between Cadiz and Sevilla in the south of Spain. And is the home and heartland of sherry. A stylish and affluent town, it's an attractive place to stop, arrayed as it is round the scores of wine bodegas with plenty of sights to visit.

The most striking of the town's buildings - including the imposing Gothic-Renaissance Catedral de San Salvador, and the eleventh-century Moorish AlcAzar, next to the GonzAlez bodega - are only a couple of minutes' walk of the central Plaza del Arenal. An Archaeological Museum lies five minutes north of the centre in the Plaza del Mercado on the edge of the Barrio de Santiago; exhibits comprise of a seventh-century BC Greek military helmet, a Visigothic sarcophagus and a fine Caliphal bottle vase.

The town became well known throughout the world for its sweet wines named after the town, it is called "de la Frontera" because it once stood on the frontier between the Moorish and the Christian realms. Jerez is also famous, throughout the world, for its fine horses and brilliant singers and dancers of flamenco.