Pueblo nuevo de Guadiaro

GUADIARO:

Guadiaro is a neighborhood (parish) of the city of San Roque on the right bank of the Guadiaro River in the Province of Cádiz, Andalusia, Spain.[1] Local festivals are held the first week of July.

Due to its proximity to the coast and to the urbanization luxury Sotogrande, Guadiaro is mainly engaged in tourism. In the area there are several golf golf, which held, among other events, the Ryder Cup in the year 1997, and golf pole, as well as plenty of water sports. Takes its name from Guadiaro River.

Guadiaro is the archaeological site of Barbésula, an old Roman city.

SAN ROQUE:

Guadiaro is a neighborhood (parish) of the city of San Roque on the right bank of the Guadiaro River in the Province of Cádiz, Andalusia, Spain.[1] Local festivals are held the first week of July.

Due to its proximity to the coast and to the urbanization luxury Sotogrande, Guadiaro is mainly engaged in tourism. In the area there are several golf golf, which held, among other events, the Ryder Cup in the year 1997, and golf pole, as well as plenty of water sports. Takes its name from Guadiaro River.

Guadiaro is the archaeological site of Barbésula, an old Roman city.

The New Saint Roch's Chapel (Sp.: Ermita de San Roque) was erected in 1801. Its style is neoclassical. The shrine houses a statue of Saint Roch. In the fourth week of April every year, a procession is held on the saint's honour, with people carrying his image on a float. The statue is then taken from the temple to the Pinar del Rey pinewoods nearby and back. During the Spanish War of Independence, Saint Roch's Chapel was ransacked by the Napoleonic troops and the historic statue of the saint was destroyed. The image was replaced in 1833 by a new one donated by an army captain from San Roque called Juan Rojas, who was stationed in Seville. At the time this city was suffering from cholera epidemics, so Captain Rojas vowed to make the effigy himself if he and his family recovered from the disease. This happened indeed and the new image of Saint Roch was donated to the church by Rojas.

The parish church, Santa María La Coronada Church, is consecrated to Saint Mary the Crowned and it was declared a listed building in 1974. The main building dates from the 18th century and features Spanish-Tuscan architecture and Baroque artwork. Work began in 1735 on the construction of a church over the foundations of the 1508 Chapel of Saint Roch.[4]

The Governor's Palace (Spanish: Palacio de los Gobernadores), which houses the municipal art gallery "Luis Ortega Bru", is also located in the same square.

The oldest bar in the town is the Bar Torres, adjacent to the central square.

The main economic activities are tourism and manufacturing.

CEPSA Gibraltar-San Roque Refinery (Spanish: Refinería de Gibraltar-San Roque), built in 1967, is situated in Guadarranque Industrial Estate. It is the largest in the Iberian Peninsula, with a crude oil daily processing capacity of 240,000 barrels per day.[5]

Local San Roque Club is an important source of tourism. Sotogrande is an exclusive beach and golf resort located in the municipality.

The beaches of Campamento and Puente Mayorga, although no longer so popular as in the sixties due to the nearby industrial activity, are close to San Roque town, facing the Bay of Gibraltar.

VALDERRAMA GOLF CLUB:

The Real Club Valderrama (Spanish: Real Club Valderrama) is one of the best known golf clubs in Europe. It is located in the resort of Sotogrande, San Roque in the Andalusia region of southern Spain, a few miles from Gibraltar, and has a single 18-hole course, along with a 9-hole par 3 course.

Valderrama was constructed in 1974 as "Sotogrande New," to the designs of leading American golf course architect Robert Trent Jones. Renamed "Las Aves" in 1981, it was acquired by Jaime Ortiz-Patiño in 1984. The golf course was redesigned and expanded by the original architect and became "Valderrama."

By 1999, Valderrama was rated the top course in mainland Europe by Golf World magazine. The practice ground was called the best in Europe by Nick Faldo.

The fourth hole, La Cascada, is the course's signature hole. It is a par 5 with a pond to the right of the two-tiered green. Before the 2016 Open de España, three national teams of four players tried to complete La Cascada in the fastest time. The French team of Raphaël Jacquelin, Alexander Lévy, Grégory Havret and Romain Wattel took four shots to complete the hole in 34.87 seconds, breaking the previous Guinness world record by half.

The club's course was the traditional host of the now defunct Volvo Masters, hosting the event from 1988 to 2008, with a five-year break when the event was moved to the Montecastillo Golf Club.