Vejer de la Frontera

Vejer de la Frontera is a Spanish hilltop city and municipality inside the province of Cadiz, Andalusia, on the right bank of the river Barbate. The city of Vejer de los angeles Frontera occupies a low hill overlooking the Straits of Gibraltar and surrounded with the aid of orchards and orange groves. It consists of numerous ancient churches and convents, and the structure of lots of its houses recalls the period of Moorish rule, which lasted from 711 until the city was captured by using Saint Ferdinand of Castile in 1248.

Agriculture and fruit-farming are the chief industries; preventing bulls also are bred within the community1 and a going for walks of the bulls is held yearly. Carnaval: Traditional Cadiz-fashion carnival with chirigotas and comparsas and a much broader variety of constumes. It is held one week after the Cadiz town Carnival. Holy Week: A sober and intimate Holy Week held inside the alleys of Vejer. There are 3 brotherhoods: The Brotherhood of the Cristo de los angeles Oliva which plays procession on Holy Wednesday, the Brotherhood of Nuestro Padre Jesus Nazareno, which parades on Holy Thursdays and the Brotherhood of the Soledad which plays its procession on Holy Friday. The latter are followed by means of Saetas.