Finca La Gloria

About the venue

Finca La Gloria, Jimena de la Frontera

Finca La Gloria is a permaculture farm and seven-room boutique hotel just outside the white village of Jimena de la Frontera, in the Cádiz countryside about 25 minutes inland from Sotogrande. It is hired exclusively for weddings of up to 100 guests, for a minimum of three nights, with vows among tropical trees, long tables in the gardens and seasonal menus cooked by the estate's private chef from the farm's own organic produce. The rooms sleep up to 15, music runs until 2am, and weddings start from about €17,500 for 50 guests including three nights for 14. Gibraltar Airport is about 45 minutes away.

Finca La Gloria sits on the edge of Jimena de la Frontera, one of the white villages of the Cádiz hills, with the cork-oak forests of the Alcornocales natural park around it and the coast at Sotogrande about 20 minutes away. It is a traditional Andalusian farm reimagined as a permaculture estate, where regenerating the soil and growing sustainable crops sit alongside art, antiques and a slower way of living.

The estate is run by director Daniel Fábrega and his brother, farm manager Oscar Garavilla. Ancient olive, citrus and almond trees share the land with the newer permaculture plots, and the farm supplies the kitchen with much of what guests eat.

Weddings are relaxed and personal: vows among the tropical trees and blossoming gardens, cocktails by the saltwater pool with the mountains behind, and long dressed tables on the lawn under woven lanterns. The estate's private chef creates seasonal menus from the farm's own produce, and the party carries on until 2am.

The boutique hotel has seven individually designed rooms, each full of art, antiques and bold colour, from a turret room with the only balcony in the house to a suite in the original 1930s stone house. Yoga, meditation and even bonsai workshops can be arranged for guests across the wedding weekend.