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Cádiz & the Costa de la Luz: Route Guide
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Europe's oldest city, its sherry capital, and the beach where two continents stare at each other. Cádiz drips 3,000 years of salt; Jerez pours fino where it was invented; Bolonia's Roman fish factory sits under a wandering dune. End in Tarifa with Africa filling the horizon and half the sky full of kites.
Cádiz & the Costa de la Luz is a 140 km one-way journey (self-drive). It works best as 3–5 days; the plan below is the 4-day version for June, built from 137 verified places, with real road-routed transit times, opening hours and daylight checked.
Plan your own version → 3-day plan · 4-day plan · 5-day plan · best time to go
The route
What you'll see
Choose your length
When to go
Best months: May, June, July, August, September, October
The levante wind fills Tarifa's kites, bluefin almadraba season peaks in late spring, and the white towns glow without the August heat haze.
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