Vejer

In its past Vejer de la Frontera, because of its strategic hilltop location, has been occupied by the Phoenicians, Carthaginians, Romans and Arabs. Following five centuries of Arab occupation, the village – which to this day retains the influences of former occupations - was retaken by the Christians in the final stages of the Reconquest (completed 1492). The denomination ‘de la Frontera’ refers to the fact that at one time the village marked the demarcation between Muslim and Christian-held territories.