Tours

GUIDED THEME TOURS IN SAN ROQUE

• “Monumental San Roque” Guided Tours (walking tour around the Collection of Listed Historical Buildings, museums, streets, squares and the Carteia Archaeological Site). Tapas sampling experience or typical menu (optional extra). Tailor-made excursion: one hour and a half to 4 hours long.
• “Tapa-Mania San Roque” Guided Culinary Route (a walking route around some of the best tapas bars in San Roque). Two hours long.
• “Sotogrande Lifestyle” Guided Tours (bus tour around San Roque’s exclusive world-famous private resort: mansions, golf, polo, the Port and Marina). Free time available for a coffee break and shopping at the magnificent Leisure Marina.One hour and a half long.
• “Two Cities United by History” Guided Tour (new combined guided tour of Gibraltar & San Roque). Find out all there is to know about the heritage of these two cities so closely-linked from a historical perspective: the present-day British city and the heir to the old Spanish city. 

"MONUMENTAL SAN ROQUE" GUIDED TOURS

SAN ROQUE, THE GIBRALTAR AREA’S HISTORICAL CENTRE

AUTHENTIC HISTORY, CULTURE & GASTRONOMY

Undoubtedly, San Roque is one of the most interesting towns in the Gibraltar Area and the province of Cadiz, due to its unique historical background and its well-kept Andalusian architecture. At first the town was known as “Gibraltar in the Fields of San Roque”, due to the fact most of the Spanish inhabitants who left the Rock in 1704 during the British invasion settled here. In 1706 King Phillip V of Spain made San Roque the official “City of Gibraltar in Exile”.

The whitewashed old quarter of town was declared a Collection of listed historical buildings in 1975. Old San Roque is full of notable monuments and museums, as well as Andalusian picturesque streets and typical squares. All the relics, records and iconography the Spanish Gibraltarians retrieved from Gibraltar are kept here, such as many statues in the Church. Another strong tradition is local gastronomy, the city is famous for its excellent tapa bars, where you can sample some of the most delicious local dishes in Andalucia.

MAIN ASPECTS OF THE GUIDED TOUR:

-          The Governor’s Palace (early 18^th century, neoclassical architecture, old Military Command HQ during the 18th century sieges on Gibraltar) – it contains to 2 museums and the original Standard of Gibraltar.

-          Saint Mary the Crowned Parish (1735, Tuscan & Baroque-style – built on the site of original shrine of Saint Roque (1508), the temple contains priceless statues brought from Gibraltar in 1704 (15^th to 18^th century)).

-          The Collection of listed historical buildings (old quarter of San Roque): Calle San Felipe, Church Square, Plaza de Armas (where modern bullfighting, so-called the Red Cape and Sword Technique, was invented in 1720), Mirador Poeta Domingo de Mena (Viewpoint), Calle Historiador Montero, Calle San Nicolás & Alameda Alfonso XI Square.

-          The Bull Ring (1850, the second oldest in the province of Cadiz and one of the oldest in Andalusia- it contains a bullfighting museum).

-          Carteya Archaeological Site (700 BC – Major Phoenician & Roman city, first Roman colony outside Italy).

-          Tapa Culinary Experience- sample some of the most delicious local dishes in small, individual servings in one of the many typical tapa bars scattered round Old San Roque. For more details, contact the team at the Borough Tourist Office: