A city which offers a wide variety of sports

Are you fond of doing sports during your holidays?

Rota is a lively city where hundreds of people daily practice sports activities. The Municipal council is in charge of coordinating these activities and is responsible for providing the local citizens with a wide range of sports activities for all ages.

Rota holds a large number of public sports facilities such as tennis and paddle courts, football pitches with artificial grass, sports centre, indoor swimming pool or golf course. You can also practise water sports such as kitesurfing, windsurfing, sailing or sport fishing on its beaches.

The most remarkable sports events are the following:

The Half Marathon Rota-Chipiona: this famous race starts in Rota and finishes in the neighbour village of Chipiona. The road running is about 21097 metres length.

The BTT Villa de Rota Marathon: the road running is about 65 kilometres around a closed circuit which is established by the event organization.

“Pedro Machuca” Winter Swimming Crossing:  this event takes place at the end of December and consists in swimming a distance of 100 metres without a neoprene wetsuit. This is not a competition; it is just a symbolic race which takes into account the participants' courage for diving into the cold water.

Sports Facilities:
“Recinto Ferial” Municipal Sports Centre
“Juan José Cañas” Sports Centre Complex
“Francisco Javier Zafra” Sports Centre
“Jose Pino Mengual (Pepín)” Sports Complex
“Bahía de Cádiz” Paddle Club
“La Forestal” Sports Centre
“Manuel Villalba” Indoor Sports Hall
“Alcalde Navarro Flores” Football Pitch
“Alcalde Navarro Flores” Athletics Track"
“Arturo Puntas Velas” Football Stadium
Municipal Swimming Pool
“Theresa Zabell” Sailing School
Municipal riding School

Sports Facilities in Costa Ballena:
“Concejal Juan Reales” Football Pitch
Golf Course
“Francisco Peña Palomeque” Municipal Sports Centre
Sailing School