Vejer
de la Frontera has, only 9km from the village a magnificient
beach known as “El Palmar Beach”.
On the Costa de la Luz, on an open and long strech of the Atlantic,
between the capes of Trafalgar and Roche.
Its fine sand and its transparent waters surrounded by a natural
environment make this beach one of the very few unexplioted
shores in the area.
This beach offers to the tourist a virtually unknown landscape,
ideal for the practice of the water sports, such as sailing,
surfing, the wind-surfing, water-skiing, fishing, ect..., all
the year around.
It has health-care services including Registered Nurses, Assistant
Nurses, Lifeguards, Ambulances, assistance facilities, showers
and toilets. It also has Tourist Services such as loudspeakers
and a point of tourist information, as well as many hostels,
camp sites, restaurants and inns, all of them qualified to attend
and satisfy the needs of all of them that go to our coasts.
The
beach houses a tower called TORRENUEVA the function of which
was the surveillance of the coast line. This sort of towers
were widely used along the coasts of Cadiz in the 17th and 18th
centuries, because invasion by pirates and other criminals was
very common. They communicated with each other by means of smoke
signals during tha day and fire signals during the night.
Several streams end in this area, from the inland hills. Tha
fauna likely to be found here is the typical of a coastal environment,
such as gulls and beach birds, including oystercatchers and
many others...
The urbanisation of the area is very scare, althought a new
development plan is being carried out.
