Jerez Horse Fair

Jerez, Andalusia, Spain

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About Jerez Horse Fair

The Jerez Horse Fair, the Feria del Caballo, is one of three noteworthy celebrations held in this little yet consummately shaped city in the south west corner of Andalucía. Notwithstanding, despite the fact that the Sherry Festival and the Flamenco Festival are both colossally critical occasions, there is most likely which of the three is the prime celebration of Jerez de la Frontera – the Festival of the Horse.

It return in 1264 that Alfonso X – 'the savvy' – finished the reconquest of the city and, as a never-ending recognition of this, he conceded two yearly obligation free fairs, one in April and the other in October. By the Middle Ages, the previous celebration had formed into an event when herders and ranchers would carry their domesticated animals into the city and, in 1481, there was enactment about where the real occasions ought to be held.

It was the 1955 Fair when the Domecq Sherry family started the possibility of a celebration as a festival of the conspicuous place of the steed in the city. It used to be that wanderers would go to the Jerez fairs keeping in mind the end goal to profit by engaging with their performing steeds. These days, the Feria del Caballo pulls in a great many guests from around the globe each May, drawn by an entrancing assortment of occasions.

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