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An exceptional destination

In front of the Mediterranean Sea

Bahía Sur Hotel and Apartments invites you to discover the richness and diversity of our environment. Surrounded by the blue of the sea and the green of the Bay of Cádiz Natural Park, our location is the perfect starting point to explore the province of Cádiz.

From the stunning beaches of Tarifa and Zahara de los Atune, to the history and culture of Cádiz and Jerez de la Frontera, passing through the white villages and some of the country’s best golf courses. Your getaway starts here, in an exceptional enclave.

Cádiz

The capital of Cádiz is just 8 km away.

You can reach Cadiz from the Hotel on public transport like the intercity train or the tram that departs from the center of San Fernando and goes all the way into the center of Cádiz. If you’d prefer to take your own vehicle, you can take the highway that connects Cádiz and San Fernando in 10 minutes, flanked by Cortadura beach and the stunning Bay of Cádiz.

Cádiz, the oldest city in the West, whose history dates back more than 3,000 years, offers visitors vestiges of Phoenician, Roman and Arab times, with no shortage of Phoenician sarcophagi, Roman theaters and neighborhoods with Almohad architecture.

Among its most popular celebrations are its famous carnivals held in late February, where joking around, criticism, sarcasm, irony and, of course, good sense humor come together to create musical compositions by Choirs, Chirigotas and Comparsas making the carnival of Cádiz truly special.

And apart from culture, when it’s time to “fill your stomach” as we say in Cádiz, savor a mouth-watering fried fish, one of the many varieties of the exquisite Red Tuna, its potatoes with squid, or a good “pá quitá el sentio” (mouth-watering) chickpeas and Tagarninas (Spanish oyster thistle) stew!

With hospitality that’s hard to find elsewhere, the easy-going nature and friendliness of the locals will welcome visitors with the biggest smile, on an incredible stay that’ll make you want to keep coming back for more because Cádiz is a natural paradise, where its people, its beaches and landscapes and its rich gastronomy come together; what more could you ask for?

Bay of Cádiz Natural Park

The city of San Fernando is affectionately known by locals as “La Isla”, due to its orography, since the area on which the city is built was a tongue of land between Cádiz and the peninsula, today connected by a number of different civil infrastructures such as canals, bridges and roads. This unique environment formed what would eventually go on to become the Bay of Cádiz Natural Park.

San Fernando has always been supplied by its natural resources such as salt mines, estuaries and marshes, thereby characterizing the city’s fishing and aquifer industry.

The Bay of Cádiz Natural Park, part of which can be seen from our rooms, is a benchmark for ornithology lovers, as it has become a key point for the passage of migratory birds. Some of these birds rest in its waters during this transitory period and others live permanently in its scrubland, dunes and marshes, so in this stunning place it’s easy to spot Flamingos, Grey Heron, Purple Heron, Plovers, Curlews, Sandpipers, etc....

Visitors to the park can enjoy a traditional fishing trip in its estuaries, visit some of its salt marshes or work out in a haven of peace with the smell of the sea along the paths and trails so you can discover the beauty the area has to offer, ending up at the wonderful Camposoto beach, or Castillo Beach and its idyllic Punta del Boquerón. There’s no better therapy than walking through so many natural wonders.

Tarifa and Zahara de los Atunes

Windsurfing and Skatesurfing lovers cannot miss out on Tarifa and its beaches; from Valdevaqueros to Bolonia, with its gigantic natural dune and its ancient Roman ruins of Baelo Claudia.

Tarifa was the gateway of Islamic culture to the rest of the peninsula, leaving behind an immense cultural legacy and an awe-inspiring town with narrow whitewashed streets that, to this day, still faces its neighbor Morocco, separated by a narrow 14-km tongue of sea where the Mediterranean and the Atlantic converge.

In summer, Tarifa has a wonderful gastronomic and nightlife offer with its streets brimming with bars, terraces and nightclubs.

In Zahara de los Atunes, a small town belonging to the neighboring Barbate, you can unwind; not just on its stunning beaches, but also while taking in its awe-inspiring cliffs from the surrounding hill, dotted with luxurious houses.

In the town of Zahara, the beach bars and its waters are the stars of the show, home to the bluefin tuna, with this rich and succulent delicacy being served in its various forms, tarantelo, morrillo, ventresca...

Golf courses

With an exceptional climate, and an average annual temperature ranging between 18º and 28 degrees, not to mention 330 days of sunshine a year, there’s nowhere quite like Cádiz for golfing.

Luckily, San Fernando is perfectly located in the heart of the Bay of Cádiz from where you can easily visit the surrounding towns where you can polish your clubs, work on your drives, perfect your swing and pot your ball. Cádiz province is home to the best golf courses, starting with the Valderrama Golf Club, in the luxurious Sotogrande, a benchmark on the European circuit with Master Golf tournaments and home of the prestigious Ryder Cup in '97.

Other golf courses closer to our Hotel are in the neighboring Chiclana de la Frontera in the Novo Sancti Petri zone, with its stunning Real Club de Golf designed by Severiano Ballesteros himself.

A less than 20-minute drive is the VillaNueva Golf in Puerto Real, or the Vista Hermosa zone in Puerto de Santa Maria, Rota with Costaballena Ocean Golf and Jerez with Montecastillo and Sherry Golf Jerez. ¿What are you waiting for to stay with us?

Jerez de la Frontera

Jerez is powerful, aristocratic, gypsy and proud. Land of Wines and Horses.

Jerez is renowned for these two fundamental pillars of its culture that have endowed the city with elegance and elegance for centuries.

With its monumental architecture, Jerez oozes art at every turn. Among its illustrious wineries and tabancos you can savor the region’s best wines... Finos, Amontillados, Palo Cortao, Oloroso, Cream and Pedro Ximenez, ambrosia of gods bottled with the best international label, Sherry, known all over the world.

And apart from its wines, flamenco comes to the fore with its powerful soundtrack of tangos, soleares, bulerías, alegrías, seguiriyas... that make even the horses dance in its wonderful Royal School of Equestrian Art, a symbol of the city.

Jerez de la Frontera, bastion of flamenco, empowers the most deeply rooted racial culture not only of the city but of an entire country.

And all this just 20 minutes from our Hotel. Are you still not sure about coming?

White villages

45 minutes from the hotel, and connected by a magnificent highway, are the Cádiz Mountains.

Among awe-inspiring natural landscapes like the Los Alcornocales Natural Park or the Sierra de Grazalema, is a conglomerate of Andalusian villages that still hold on to the purest essence of its Moorish origin.

Perched mostly on the backs of crags, ravines and cliffs, the white villages of the Cádiz Mountains takes visitors on a journey into the past of our traditions, reflected in the kindness of its people, architectural wealth, craftsmanship and a one-of-a-kind cuisine made with local produce like its mouth-watering pork products, its prestigious payoyos cheeses, its game meats and its rich traditional Andalusian confectionery such as the traditional pestiños, almond cakes, buns, alfajores and fritters.

The route through the white villages of Cádiz starts in Arcos de la Frontera, gateway to the region and one of the most beautiful in Spain, not to mention Grazalema, a beautiful village that gets its name from the mountain it is built on. Zahara de la Sierra, El Bosque, Ubrique, Setenil de las Bodegas, Benamahoma…

Villages that share the intense green of the surrounding landscape and the whitewashed facades, green and white, white and green, the colors of the Andalusian flag that, with a sense of place and tradition, pays homage to its people and its culture.