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Costa Ballena
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Costa Ballena
Costa Ballena is a strip of land four kilometres long
by one kilometre wide, with almost four kilometres
of beaches bathed by the Atlantic Ocean, warm and
noble at these latitudes. The development's 400 hectares
are located at the heart of the purest Andalusia,
in the province of Cádiz, at the southernmost
tip of Spain, where the oldest and famous wine in
the world, sherry, is produced and where they raise
the famous Jerez horses from which the prized Spanish
breed descends. The vineyards that dominate the landscape
date from Roman times, two thousand years ago. This
land is also the cradle of the purest and richest
Mediterranean folklore, flamenco, the purity and vigour
of which are legendary in some of the villages in
the area. The extremely varied, imaginative gastronomy,
abounding in popular recipes, many of them influenced
by the former Morish inhabitants, links up with present-day
Mediterranean cuisine, in which vegetables, fruit,
cereals, olive oil, and fresh seafood and game all
find a place.
The prolific cultural and architectural heritage combines
with values provided by progress and modernity to
create a unique, well-communicated area with three
international airports nearby (Jerez, Seville, and
Gibraltar), a motorway that links up the European
networks via Seville and Madrid, and a high-speed
train terminal in Seville, a city of universally acknowledged
beauty and located less than an hour by road.
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