Jerez redirects here; there is also a smaller place Jerez de los Caballeros in Extremadura, Spain.

Jerez de la Frontera is a city and municipality in the province of Cádiz in the autonomous community of Andalusia in southern Spain.

It is where sherry originated and it is one of the original centres of Flamenco. Frontera refers to its location formerly being on the frontier, or border, between the Moorish and Christian regions of Spain.

It is the home of the Xerez Club Deportivo football team.

Jerez is also home to the motorsport race circuit Circuito Permante de Jerez.

10 km north is the Airport Jerez.

Jerez was a small independent emirate created c. 1030, after the fall of the emirate of Córdoba .

Some years later was united to Arcos by Aben Jairuan thar ruled both c. 1040-1053. In 1053 was annexed to Sevilla.

From 1145 to 1147 the region of Arcos and Jerez was briefly a emirate under dependency of Grenada, led by Aben Garrum