Opening hours:
June, July, August and September : 10.00 - 20.00 hrs
March, April, May and October : 10.00 - 19.00 hrs
November, December, January and February : 10.00 - 18.00 hrs
Sundays - open until 14.00 hrs.only;
closed all Mondays, Closed Dec.24, 25 and 31 and January 1 and January 6.

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The Roman Ruins of Baelo Claudia dating from the end of the 2nd century BC and the entrance is free for visitors from EU countries (have an ID card or passport to hand).

There is a large, well organized parking right next to entrance.
Tip: choose a day with little wind; avoid weekends if you can in the summer season.
Mid-May and June - everywhere very green, no crowds.
September and October - everywhere brown, no crowds!
Take your camera - and an ice box with Cava (champagne) and glasses (see below!).

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To get to Bolonia, follow the N.340 in the direction of Cadiz, and take the turning to your left marked Bolonia. Follow this bendy road, follow signs to the Ruins.

Suggestion: arrive around 12.00 hrs. Enjoy a visit to this sensitively restored archeological site (remember your camera, it makes a wonderful backdrop for photos). A stroll around the ruins will take approximately 30 - 45 minutes. Information boards are strategically placed and give you just the right amount of information. You exit where you came in.

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Leaving your car in the parking, turn right and following the gravel path between the low, white buildings you will arrive at a simple wooden restaurant with a thatched roof and plastic chairs lending an air of authentic holiday-simplicity which is rare these days. It is now around 13.15 so you are still early for lunch and are therefore pretty sure of a table outside. A simple white paper cloth. What to order? Start with a ‘tinto de verano’ (tinto = red wine, verano = summer) a long-drink-mix of wine and lemonade. A mixed salad for 2 in the middle of the table. Try the ‘acedias’ (small sole) or the ‘tortilla de camarones (very thin, crispy, fried omelette with prawns). For dessert try the ‘arroz con leche’ (rice cooked in milk with cinnamon).

After an afternoon on the beach (in high season there are sun beds and parasols for rent) or a walk round the bay, and a swim (only sand underfoot, no rocks, no jelly-fish, very little tidal pull, turquoise water), return to your car around 17.30.

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Instead of driving straight back to Tarifa we suggest that return the way you came, direction Tarifa. Leaving the village of Bolonia, after a few bends you will see a road on your right winding up into the hills. Do NOT take this but take the next road to your right, at present marked ‘poor surface’. Go over the cattle grid. Where the road straightens out, and, hopefully, with a wooden telegraph pole still on your right, you may like to park the car and clamber down between the bushes on your left to discover some megalithic tombs - a series of ‘lidless coffins’ which were used to dry the bodies in the sun in the first century AD.

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This is quite an exciting discovery. Thereafter, continue slowly up this road -there are large man-made bumps to control your speed, and a few scattered houses to left and right in this area (called Betis) as well as some impressive rock formations and the mountain to your right- and you will eventually have the most splendid view down to Tarifa and across to Morocco, especially as by now the sun will be going down behind you.

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You will come to a T-junction. Turn left and eventually you rejoin the N.340 and turn right for Tarifa.

Yes, anybody can find Bolonia by looking on the map, and get a folder on entering the ruins…. but you will be one of the few to ‘add an extra dimension’ to your day and - with a bit of extra effort, discovering the megalithic tombs. We drank our CAVA here.

Note:
Reminder- CELT - a member of a group of West European peoples, including the pre-
Roman inhabitants of Britain and their descendants

MEGALITHIC - Mega + Greek lithos = stone made of or marked by the use of large stones

Roman Ruins in Bolonia
A great walk from Bolonia
Evening drive: Facinas to los Barrios
El Palomar de la Breña
Vejer de la Frontera

Recommended places to eat - 'Westwards'

Restaurants outside Tarifa - Westwards

Recommended places to visit - 'Eastwards'

Agua park Algeciras
Gibraltar

 

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About Zoë and her guesthouse

Zoë is the owner of Guesthouse Dar Cilla which is unique of its sort in Tarifa. It is located on the outskirts of the old town within the old 12th century walls. 'Dar' is an Arabic word for a town house in which a series of suites are grouped around a central courtyard. Each suite is fully independent, but there is a pleasant air of 'sociability' and you will meet Zoë and fellow guests on the roof terrace over a glass of wine.

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