Dear Lucia. This is how start the love story. If you feel passion for wine’s world and Andalucia, we propose this film, El Verano que Vivimos, in which you can learn about it from a private visit from Jerez. This film tells the story of a journalist who finds out a love story between an architect and his childhood friend’s wife. This history set in the end of the 50s. It shows us Jerez de la Frontera and its most representative places. Let you fall in love with Jerez, its art and its wine. Here, we show you which locations are and how feel like into a movie: the top 10 locations from El verano que vivimos.
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Jerez’s Alcazar
This film shows the views of the city from this monument. It lets you know that it is the most special point to have a peripheral view of the whole city and, best of all, from one of the most representative monuments of the city, The Cathedral.
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Alameda Vieja
In the stand of this square, Lucia dances buleria under the watchful eye of Gonzalo. The flamenco dance is an important part of the film as is in the tradition of Jerez. Did you know that from this place you can see the biggest weathervane in the world? It is place on the top of the next location.
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Tio Pepe Winery and the Gonzalez Byass vineyard
The movie develops mainly in the vineyard and the wineries. The realism of how the wine topic has been represented becomes poignant. Most of the viewers have agreed that throughout the film you experience the heat of the vineyard, the smell inside the winery, and also the taste of the fine wine fresh out of the wine boot.
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Tabanco El Pasaje
In this typical tabanco we can watch the scene of the flamenco show and how Lucia faces the workers foreman. This is a traditional place where you can find several wine types and the most famous tapas of the city.
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La Asuncion Square
This square is the stage of several scenes like the conversation in the car between Gonzalo and Hernan’s little sister. From this square we can see the facade of Lucia’s house, the old Town Hall of Jerez, and San Dionisio’s Church.
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Casares Countess Palace
This urban palace is in the Asuncion Square. It is Lucia’s house, where there are a lot of scenes. In addition to this film, a national mystery program has filmed there, due to some paranormal events highlighted by the residents of the area.
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Petra de Rivas Palace
This palace is the home of Hernan’s family, where some of the flamenco party and some scenes of the lifestyle of the characters. It represent as a classic Andalusian house of the wealthiest families, with some similar to Lucia’s house, like the central garden and the architecture style. In from of it, there is some typicals bars and a luxury hotel.
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El Gallo Azul
One of the most representative symbols of Jerez is seen in a scene where both friends are walking in the main street of the city. Most of the tourists said that this is a required walk and a wonderful photograph place, as is the case of Carlos Cuevas (the actor who plays Carlos, Gonzalo’s son) who was captivated by the monument and showed it on his Instagram feed.
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Porvera Street
This street is shown in one of the most beautiful and painful scenes in the movie. The beautiful street is covered almost entirely by trees with purple flowers. We can find different restaurants with varied food types and even the Academy of Maria Espejo; the actress of Lucia’s friend and who helped behind the cameras with themes of setting, traditions, accent… This street is named because it used to be on the edge of the city wall, which can still be seen in some sections of it.
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Rota and Zahora Beaches
Not everything is recorded in Jerez. Although it made to believe that it is the beaches of Sanlucar, the horse race locate in Rota Beach. Different romantic scenes are also filmed on Zahora Beaches, the Trafalgar Lighthouse, and the Doñana Marshes. The sea and the beaches are part of all the inhabitants of the province of Cádiz, even if they do not live-in coastal cities, so the film succeeds in putting these scenes, even if they were not part of Jerez.
The film transmits to the viewer the essence of Jerez and the inhabitants of the city, their vocation for the land and wine work and even the oldest hobbies that remain today. For this reason, visiting Jerez following this 10 locations from El verano que vivimos is a good way to get to know the city deeply. What are you waiting for to feel like the protagonist of a movie?