Explore a selection of our most popular Cádiz experiences. However long you spend with us, our luxury, expert-led tours will make you feel like a true insider.
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Cadiz, or with its Spanish spelling, Cádiz, is the ancient port city founded by Phoenician navigators, located in the southern tip of Spain, where the Atlantic Ocean meets the Mediterranean Sea.
It was the gateway to the Americas when Columbus set sail and returned with new riches for the palate. While here, savour all its culinary heritage from fresh fish, fortified wines and everything in between. Enjoy long lunches, lazy dinners and engage local flavour – its people and its cuisine.
Explore a selection of our most popular Cádiz experiences. However long you spend with us, our luxury, expert-led tours will make you feel like a true insider.
From ruins to riches: you’ll take in ancient artefacts at the Museum of Cádiz and lavish merchants’ mansions bought with profits from the Spanish treasure fleets. Lunch at market stalls, tapas bars and little taverns, you’ll even learn how the city’s trading history feeds into its food culture.
Full Day tour with a local guide who takes you by private vehicle out of Cádiz. Through the spectacular mountain scenery of Sierra de Grazalema Natural Park, you’ll stop at three of those well-preserved pueblos blancos (white villages).
Stop at market stalls and taverna counters to try some of the local specialities, in the place where Spanish tapas originated! (according to local legend)
OUR INSIDER’S TIPS
BEST PLACE TO SEE THE SUNSET:
♥ Baluarte de la Candelaria (fortress built in 1672 as part of the sea wall, now a venue for concerts & exhibitions)
BEST VIEW OF THE CITY:
♥ Views over the bay of Cádiz from Parque Genoves.
PRETTIEST STREETS TO WALK DOWN:
♥ Alameda Apodaca, along the water!
TOP GADITANO PRODUCTS TO TAKE BACK HOME:
♥ Leather goods from Ubrique.
♥ Olive oil from the Sierra de Cádiz.
♥ Salt from the salt mines Santa María de Jesús de Chiclana.
BEST CHEFS & THEIR RESTAURANTS:
♥ Chef Carlos Borrell from Almanaque Casa de Comidas. Revolutionising Gaditano cuisine “it isn’t all fried fish!” Carlos, a Bib Gourmand, suggests asking the staff for their recommendations and that you “let yourself be carried away by the flavours, enjoying the tradition, origin and history of how these products arrive on the menu”.
♥ Ángel León from Aponiente*** in Puerto de Santa Maria (20min north of the city of Cadiz). Nicknamed the “Chef of the Sea”, Ángel leads this 3-Michelin-star restaurant, which focuses on seafood, not just fish, presented in the most unusual ways.
♥ And of course, the local ladies from the city and the province in their kitchens!
MUST-HAVE GADITANO DISHES & DRINKS:
♥ Mojama – salt cured tuna (urban legend says that it was a favorite of Ava Gardner!)
♥ Tortillitas de Camarones (shrimp fritters)
♥ Fried fish (including anchovy, acedías, pijotas, red mullet or whitebait)
MUSIC FROM CADIZ TO CHECK OUT:
♥ Quite possibly the most famous flamenco guitarist of ALL TIME, the late Paco de Lucia was from the east side of the Cadiz province, from the city of Algeciras.
♥ Andy & Lucas, from the province of Cádiz, the two friends started a music group in 2003 and have become one of the most popular groups from Spain!
♥ Merche, jumping onto the music scene in 2002, Merche has maintained her popularity in Spain.