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sevillanas, sherry, fairground rides, but little flamenco...

Each town in andalusia has a week long festivity called the feria

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Buy a dress for the feria

The feria de caballos is well known as the horse fair in Jerez de la Frontera. Here are some pics from 2003.

The exhibition hall gives you the chance to see some extra horse activities.

Do not miss the horse parade on Sunday afternoon!

Day time feria is different to the night time feria, so choose your staying power!

A Tuesday is a good time to go, when there are no crowds. Ask for a plate of fried green peppers - pimientos fritos... and a fino sherry

or some churros with chocolate drink in the early hours

click here to the sevillanas maths table (only for the initiated!)

A sevillanas is a courtship dance with three verses, and danced as a set of 4 sevillanass together. You have to take some sevillanass dance classes and get to know the structure of the music, in order to have some idea when to start and when to stop...! Usually you will find two women together, but it is psychologically better to see a man and a woman dancing as a pareja.

Children enjoy both the traditional fairground activities as well as the casetas. Even clowns are engaged by the individual caseta organisations to entertain.

or go on the fairground ride

and the Mexican mariachi groups also look for work as and when thay are invited.

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