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Getting There & Around
Bus
Most buses are run by Comes ( 956 80 70 59; Plaza de la Hispanidad) . Destina-
tions include Seville (€11, 1¾ hours, 10 daily), El Puerto de Santa María (€2.10, 30
to 40 minutes, 19 or more daily), Jerez de la Frontera (€3, 40 minutes, nine or more
daily), Tarifa (€8.46, two hours, five daily) and other places down the Cádiz coast,
Arcos de la Frontera (€5.95, 1¼ hours, five daily Monday to Friday, two daily
Saturday and Sunday), Ronda (€13, three hours, two daily), Málaga (€20, four
hours, six daily), Olvera (€12.40, three hours) and Granada (€28, five hours, four
daily).
Car & Motorcycle
The AP4 motorway from Seville to Puerto Real on the eastern side of the Bahía de
Cádiz carries a €5.50 toll. The toll-free A4 is slower.
There's a handily placed underground car park (Paseo de Canalejas; per 24hr
€9) near the port area.
Train
From the train station ( 902 24 02 02) up to 36 trains run daily to El Puerto de
Santa María (€3.90, 40 minutes) and Jerez de la Frontera (€4.80, 50 minutes), up
to 15 to Seville (€12.75, two hours), three to Córdoba (€23.85 to €38.20, three
hours) and two to Madrid (€70, five hours).
Jerez de la Frontera
POP 202,700
Stand down all other claimants. Jerez, as most savvy Spain-o-philes know, is An-
dalucía. It just doesn't broadcast the fact in the way that Seville and Granada do. As
a result, few people plan their trip around a visit here, preferring instead to jump-cut
to the glories of the Giralda and the Alhambra. If only they knew. Jerez is the capital
of andaluz horse culture, stop one on the famed sherry triangle and - cue the prot-
estations from Cádiz and Seville - the cradle of Spanish flamenco. If you really
want to unveil the eternal riddle that is Andalucía, start here.