Climbing

The municipality of Tarifa is an ideal place to practice climbing, since it has a great rocky heritage. «La Loma de San Bartolo» is an area internationally known by climbers from all over the world. “San Bartolo” is the most important school in the province of Cádiz and perhaps the most beautiful, due to its location on an elevation overlooking the Valdevaqueros and Bolonia inlets. It is located within the Natural Park of the Strait.

Companies dedicated to climbing

The school has two areas, the Arriba area, the oldest, and the Tajo del Búho or Canuto del Arca area, with its popular Mosaic area. Both areas have climbs on a similar sandstone, very hard and favoring grip on strips, edges, loins, chickpeas and mushrooms. All combined in various angles, typical of each sector, which cause a varied climb, but peculiar to the area. Each sector and its orientation is more prone to a summer or winter season. The best is spring and autumn, although the changing weather in this area, dependent on the west and east winds, causes highly variable temperature changes throughout the year.