Pueblo Nuevo de Guadiaro: Golf, Rugby and History

Pueblo Nuevo de Guadiaro is home to the public Campo Municipal de Golf La Cañada, an 18-hole course. The course offers a municipal golf school and an adapted golf school. The Sendero La Cañada provides a safe pedestrian route to the Club Municipal de Golf La Cañada; the route avoids paved areas and has a safety zone along the road with an appropriate distance from the carriageway. It connects Avenida El Conchudo with Calle Altamira.

Sport

The “Zona Norte” sports complex is located in the Pueblo Nuevo de Guadiaro district and includes a rugby pitch. The Campo Municipal de Rugby de Pueblo Nuevo has a natural-grass surface and can host matches at regional and national level. The “Campo de Gibraltar” Football Campus takes place on the rugby pitch in Pueblo Nuevo de Guadiaro. The campus was held for its eleventh edition and had therefore been running for eleven years at that time.

The sports facilities in Pueblo Nuevo de Guadiaro served as the setting for the official presentation of the San Roque Rugby Club’s youth and senior men’s teams. During the 2023/2024 season, the club’s rugby schools for the M4 to M12 age groups held regular training sessions on Friday afternoons and Saturday mornings at the municipal sports facilities in Pueblo Nuevo de Guadiaro.

Townscape and History

The redevelopment of Plaza Mayor de Pueblo Nuevo created a leisure and commercial area for the Valle del Guadiaro. Architectural barriers were removed as part of the redevelopment. Concerts, children’s festivals and Zambombas have taken place in Plaza Mayor de Pueblo Nuevo.

Pueblo Nuevo de Guadiaro was founded in the mid-1960s as a residential settlement for employees of the Urbanización de Sotogrande. The first houses were built by the Caja de Ahorros de Jerez.

Festivals and Remembrance

The Corpus Christi celebrations include a mass in the church of Pueblo Nuevo de Guadiaro, after the statue of the Virgen de los Dolores has been brought there from Guadiaro. Every year at this time, the settlement’s residents carry the Virgen de los Dolores in procession to the Santuario de la Misericordia in Pueblo Nuevo de Guadiaro. During this procession, they commemorate the collapse of the settlement’s old church.

Further destinations: Torreguadiaro, Guadiaro and Sotogrande.

Routes

EuroVelo 8 includes an approximately 24-kilometre section between Castellar de la Frontera and Pueblo Nuevo de Guadiaro along the A-2100, which is also known locally as “Carretera de Arenillas”. From Pueblo Nuevo, the coastal variant of EuroVelo 8 follows the Mediterranean coast towards Estepona for approximately 50 kilometres. The Tesorillo variant of EuroVelo 8 is a 54-kilometre circular route from Pueblo Nuevo towards San Martín del Tesorillo.

For the main travel overview: San Roque.