The Flamencology Cátedra was founded in 1.958 whereas the Andalusian Flamenco Centre was recently founded with The Pemartin Palace as seat. This palace is characterized for its valuable artistic elements such as a "Mudejar" decoration and a stone-carved patio.

The main aims of this centre are:
Promotion of the traditional artistic, literary and musical values.
Investigation, recovery, teaching and disclosure of those values belonging to the deepest Andalusian cultural tradition.
Conservation and collection of those documents and objects related to flamenco.

Each year, there are dance and guitar seminaries addressed to young people who love flamenco. Apart from flamenco conference, an investigation prize for unpublished works about flamenco is summoned each two years.
Each four years it is held an international conference.

Nowadays, Jerez keeps on enjoying the biggest international prestige as the town of flamenco. The cafés existing at the beginning of the century have been replaced by more than a dozen small flamenco clubs (peñas flamencas. Those clubs gather together an important mass of flamenco lovers and they frequently house concerts and recitals.