Nature areas
Dehesas de Jerez SPA and SCI
This natural space contains up to eight different habitats where you can enjoy nature to the full.
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- Dehesas de Jerez SPA and SCI
At the foot of the Sierra Morena mountains
Location and Contact:
- Contact person: Jerez de los Caballeros Tourist Information Office
- Tel.:+34 924 73 03 72
- Email: turismo@jerezdeloscaballeros.es
- Website address: https://jerezcaballeros.es/
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This natural space contains up to eight different habitats where you can enjoy nature to the full.
Dehesas de Jerez SPA and SCI is formed by an extensive area of dehesas, or pasture lands, located in the southwest of the province of Badajoz. More specifically, it encompasses the towns of Jerez de los Caballeros, Zahínos, Villanueva del Fresno and Valle de Matamoros, among others, and the basins of the rivers Godolid, Cofrentes and Alcarrache until the area where the river Guadiana forms the border with Portugal.
The area is particularly notable for its fields of holm-oaks and oak trees. The fish in the waters of its rivers include endangered species like the jarabugo (anaecypris hispanica) and the boga (leporinus obtusidens). Also important are the populations of Mediterranean turtles and European pond turtles, and otters can be found in the region's streams.
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Jerez de los Caballeros Castle
The good state of preservation of Jerez de los Caballeros Castle will transport you to a regal age, when its walls drove back countless attacks.
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Toriñuelo Dolmen
A funerary construction with unusual architectural features, as well as painted and engraved motifs in the interior.
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Church of San Bartolomé
A legend written in Gothic letters on the walls of the old shrine of San Bartolomé says that the construction work was completed in 1508.
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Chapel of San Benito
Converted into a convent in the 18th century.
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El Pomar Roman Villa
This large Roman residence of incalculable cultural value has survived from the 3rd and 4th centuries AD to our times.
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Jerez de los Caballeros Bullring
This bullring has been restored several times since it was inaugurated in the 19th century.
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Archpriestal church of San Miguel Arcángel
The most outstanding element of this Baroque church in Jerez de los Caballeros is its seventy-metre high tower. But inside it guards many other treasures, like carvings of the four evangelists.
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Church of Santa María de la Encarnación
This Baroque church may have been constructed on top of another Visigoth one, which would make the church of Santa María de la Encarnación the oldest religious building in Jerez de los Caballeros.
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Church of Santa Catalina
The great height of the tower that presides over this church in Jerez de los Caballeros is the big attraction of this Baroque building.
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Casa del Bachiller
The tower of this ancestral home is the biggest attraction of the palace of the Bachiller Juan Martínez, located in the municipality of Jerez de los Caballeros in the province of Badajoz.