Jerez Andalucía de cerca tory impregnates the city with a rich and varied historic-artistic heritage and which today presents a wide range of architectural styles and original buildings that make Jerez a beautiful city with a really unique and singular urban physiognomy. The historic centre of the city has been declared of Cultural Interest with the denomination Historic-Artistic Heritage Site. One of its most distinguished conservation sites is the Conjunto Monumental Alcázar de Jerez; a heritage site which includes the mosque, Arab baths, oil press, royal pavilion, courtyard, gardens, vegetable garden, well and archaeological site. By purchasing a combined ticket, you can also visit the Santo Domingo Cloisters, another of the architectural jewels of the city, and the Archaeological Museum located in the heart of the historic centre and which shows the history of Jerez and its surrounding region. The rich artistic heritage includes religious buildings such as San Salvador Cathedral, San Dionisio, the Santa María de la Defensión Carthusian Monastery, the Basilica of Nuestra Señora de la Merced, the churches of San Miguel, San Mateo, San Lucas, San Juan de los Caballeros, San Juan de Letrán and Las Angustias or the convent of Santo Domingo. Jerez was once considered the “City of Convents” and to this day still conserves some enclosed congregations. Jerez also has a rich heritage of palaces, amongst which stand out the Campo Real Palace in Plaza Benavente or the Virrey de la Serna Palace in Plaza Monti. In every street and on every corner in the historic centre visitors may feast their eyes on unique architectural elements, beautiful buildings that will take them back to some forgotten time in the centuries of history amassed by the city. Neither can it be ignored that wine culture is ever present in every corner of the city and the sherry wineries of Jerez provide unique architectural features within the labyrinth of streets that form the historic centre.
A rich historic-artistic heritage Jerez de la Frontera dates back to Phoenician times and its three-thousand-year his-
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