Vejer de la Frontera white village
— a white town the wind keeps clean.
Not only on a wall.
Vejer de la Frontera white village, on ceramic.
Each tile is finished by hand in our Knoxville studio. Artwork is slowly infused into the ceramic surface under high heat and pressure, and rests beneath a thin glossy finish. The colour lives in the surface, not on top of it.
Pick any four 4-inch tiles — National Parks you've been to, a Smokies set, the four seasons of one place. $ for a set of , cork-backed, ready to live on the table.
Each tile ships in a kraft box, tied with cream ribbon, with a handwritten note from the studio if you'd like to add one.
Three or five different vistas, hung together — a chapter of places you've been, or want to go.
“A pueblo blanco set on a limestone hill about 190 metres above the Atlantic plain of Cádiz. Whitewashed houses, walled gardens, narrow stepped lanes that turn back on themselves at every corner. The Moorish castle and the Iglesia del Divino Salvador anchor the old town inside what remains of the medieval walls. On clear days the view runs south to Cape Trafalgar and, with the right air, across to the Rif coast of Morocco. The wind off the Strait is constant — locals call it the levante. from the studio
The place, in three passes.
Vejer de la Frontera is a hilltop town in the province of Cádiz, Andalusia, with a population of around 12,000. It stands on a limestone outcrop roughly 190 metres above the coastal plain, about ten kilometres inland from the Atlantic at El Palmar. The 'de la Frontera' in its name marks the medieval border between Christian Castile and Moorish Granada. Vejer was held by the Almohads until 1250, when Ferdinand III took the town. Much of the old quarter remains within the line of its medieval walls.
Inside the walls the lanes are narrow and stepped, with whitewashed houses set wall to wall and small jasmine-shaded patios behind heavy doors. The Castillo, originally a tenth-century Moorish fort, holds the highest ground. The Iglesia del Divino Salvador sits beside it, built across the thirteenth to sixteenth centuries on the site of an earlier mosque, mixing Mudéjar and late-Gothic work. Four medieval gates survive: the Arco de la Segur, the Arco de Sancho IV, the Puerta Cerrada, and the Arco de la Villa.
The old town is best walked rather than driven; cars are parked at La Plazuela below the walls. The closest beach is El Palmar, ten kilometres west, a long flat Atlantic strand known for left-hand surf in winter. Cape Trafalgar and the lighthouse mark the seaward end of the comarca. Vejer is roughly fifty kilometres south of Cádiz city and an hour from Tarifa, where the ferries cross to Tangier. The town is quietest mid-week and in shoulder season, late April or October.
