It was in the 60's and during the beginning of the 70's, when Sotogrande was created. It is the brainchild of the entrepreneur Joseph Mc Micking who was looking for an idyllic place where to build a luxurious urbanisation. And he found what he was looking for here.

Here found Mc Micking the ingredients to realise his idea: lovely views, wide lands, good communications by road (2 nearby airports)and the beach. It where his nephews Jaime and Enrique Zóbel who bought a finca called Paniagua, construction started.. little after, Robert Trent Jones, a major constructor of golf camps through the world, started here his activities and made of Sotogrande what it is known today as a National Touristic Centre. Enrique Zobel was the initiator of Polo in Sotogrande with the construction of the field on the beach in 1965. This was destroyed during a thunderstrom in 1984.

Before turning on what it is today, Sotogrande was a priviledged place, belonging to the borrough of San Roque, founded 300 years ago by those who had to leave Gibraltar during the invasion of the British. The history of Sotogrande is the same as the one of the Campo de Gibraltar: Phoenicians, Carthaginians, Romans and Arabs were passing through these lands before recapturing the soils in the 15th Century.

Nowadays is Sotogrande a luxurious urbanisation which belongs to the borrough of San Roque and from with La Línea de la Concepción, Tarifa, Algeciras, Castellar de la Frontera, Los Barrios and Jimena de la Frontera the area of teh Campo de Gibraltar. Moreover, Sotogrande can count on an important net of big hotels, apartments, luxurious houses and chalets all specialised for holiday accommodation. Furthermore, it offers an amazing net of golf courses, has a magnificient Marina, one of the best Polo Clubs of Europe and most of all an excellent climate and fantastic beaches.

Sotogrande, together with Tarifa is the great tourist motor of the province. Sotogrande is the preferred destination of travellers from Europe because of its great golf courses, whilst in Tarifa, it is wind- and kitesurfing what people are looking for. Sotogrande can offer you 300 days of sunshine every year..