All of Tarifa's walking routes start with a sightseeing tour of the Old Town. Its main purpose is to walk around the old city wall, to see the place where it was destroyed during the war of 1811, to pass through the Jerez Gate - the only one of the three surviving medieval gates.
Next, the tourist route of Tarifa lies to the castle Castillo de Guzman el Bueno, from the fortress wall of which offers a mesmerizing view of the Moroccan mountains of the African continent. Next to the castle stands a monument to Don Alonso Perez Guzman, after whom the castle is named. This honor fell to Don for the fact that during the siege of the city by the Arabs, he did not give in to their provocations and allowed to kill his own son, who was captured, but not to surrender the stronghold of Christianity.
Hiking routes around Tarifa are sure to take you to the Christian churches of the Virgin Mary and St. Matthew the Apostle. The churches were built on the site of destroyed mosques after Christians drove Muslim Arabs out of the city.
Many of Tarifa's walking routes end at the local La Alameda Park, a large palm garden with paved paths. If you like longer walks, you can take Tarifa routes that wind through the countryside. There you will see a scattering of windmills, the descendants of the very structures with which the famous Don Quixote fought.
