Huelva Descubridora
English version
The capital
of the province is situated on the triangle of sand formed by the confluence of
the river Tinto and river Odiel, on the shore of the estuary of the same name,
in a zone of great natural interest given that in the surrounding AREA are the
Marismas del Odiel Natural Beauty Spot, the Enebrales de Punta Umbria Natural
Beauty Spot and the Lagunas de Palos y Las Madres Natural Beauty Spot. Also the
Laguna de El Portil Nature Reserve and the Estero de Domingo Rubio Natural
Beauty Spot; all of these areas are of enormous ecological significance due to
their faunistic and botanical diversity. The city has always been linked to the
events related to the Discovery and conquest of America. Today it is still the
town in Andalusia with the greatest Latin-American vocation as the annual
holding of the Latin-American Film Festival and all manner of acts related to
that continent proves. Nearby is the Rabida Monastery and port of Palos from
where Christopher Columbus departed.
The city preserves many architectonic and urbanistic
characteristics which bear witness to its history and the evolution of what,
according to some studies, was the cradle of the mythical Tartessos: the Cathedral, the
church of the Concepción, St Peter's church, the Angustias
Convent, the Sanctuary of Ntra. Sra. de la Cinta, the Monument to
Columbus, the Great Theatre and the Reina Victoria district, an example of English
architecture built due to the working of the mines in the province by companies
from that country. The mineral loading platform is also left over from this
mining activity and is an interesting work of engineering.
Location
Through
Columbiums track or from V Centenary A-49, the capital of Huelva is
direct connected to autonomous community, Sevilla.
The tourist places from Huelva´s province reduced the distance to the airport
of
Faro. The capital of Algarve is situated an only 50 Km from the limit of
Huelva´s province.
Therefore, owns the airport of the autonomous capital, Sevilla.
There was a better agility
in communication between these two tourists areas, once Huelva is already
prepared to
technologies defy of the communication society by the powerful of western
coastline. The
city has a good and modern bus station from where it leaves all lines
connected to Huelva with the rest of Province, municipalities, as the rest of
Andalusia and
Spain. Related
to the railroad, the route Huelva-Sevilla consists in three trains by day
and
expect an improvement in the actual line to get better the road of regional
trains
Huelva-Zafra, as a point of complex of western coast of Huelva´s
province
Monuments
Huelva
claims to be a 'flamenco capital', however several of the city's splendid old
buildings and monuments remain, including the 15th century Church of San Pedro,
built on the site of a mosque; the Shrine of Nuestra Señora de la Cinta and,
last but not least, the home of Christopher Columbus next to his commemorative
monument. Wander around the atmospheric barrio Reina Victoria or visit the
Alonso Sanchez park which affords attractive views of the city. Other points of
interest in the city include the Muelle del Tinto docks, built at the beginning
of the 20th century to load Huelva's mineral exports; the Conquero lookout and
the provincial museum.
Provincial
Museum
The
Provincial Museum of Fine Arts was inaugurated in 1973, a modern building of
simple characteristics.
There are three floors and basement, divided in two important sections: archeology
and Fine Arts. The point is the room of archeology like a consequence of
the bright
historical pass of Huelva. There re important collections of objects from the
ancient
museum and works realized by the investigator Carlos Cerdán, in El Pozuelo and
Santa
Barbara and also things found in Cabezo de la Joya in the capital.
In
the archeological section it was organized exhibitions in agreement with the
different cultures (pre-historical and historical) that occupied the soil from
Huelva until
Reconquista. In first place exists an exhibition of objects, tools and
materials of Paleolithic
and Neolithic. They are part of the collections of Bronze Age and belong to the
collection
of Bronze I, product of excavation of much time ago found in different
places of province,
with so important objects like plate and glass and another thing similar like
those objects
found in the grave of Zarcita´s dome.
From
Bronze II there are individuals buries in cista and interesting ceramics.
In relation to Bronze III there re signs like swords and other objects found in
Huelva´s river, as many and valuables thing belonged to tartésicos´s grave
of Cabezo
de la Joya. It is presented pieces from roman origin in the region of Riotinto.
Among
the trace of Arabic time the point is a capitel from Caliphs time in
marble
(like a column), one battle mozarabic in bronze and some malaguens stars made
with
metallic reflex, all them found in the excavations done in capital. There are
also christens
pieces of medieval time and a small room adapted to blinds and visual deficient
with an
archeological
sign of Huelva.
Reina
Victoria District
Just
off the eastern end of Alameda Sundheim, was built by the British Rio Tinto
mining company in 1917 for its workers. Its straight streets of cute little
cottages, in a kind of hybrid English-Spanish style, make for a curious stroll.
A
collection of modern houses, decorate the way by the main ancient streets in an
important moment, when is the top of minerals exploration of Riotinto and
Tharsis,
population grows and there re news constructions in the city. This construction
from
foraneas influence promotes an exotic air, specifically in this area, not found
in other
capitals
of Andalusia.
Rio
Tinto Pier
A
fine iron pier curving out into the Odiel estuary about half a kilometre south
of the port. It was built for the Rio Tinto company in the 1870's by Geoge
Barclay Bruce, a British disciple of tower specialist Gustave Eiffel.
Shrine
of Nuestra Señora de la Cinta.
This
chapel is located 2 kms north of the city centre off Avenida de Manuel Siurot.
It was visited by Columbus before he embarked on his momentous voyage and this
event was portrayed in tiles by artist, Daniel Zuloaga.
It
has in the inner the image in one of the tiles the
dislocating of Columbus until here to keep the promise asked to the Virgen de
la Cinta during the worst
moment
of the route.
Monument to the Discovering Faith.
Situated
approximately a 4 Km of the capital, followed by the Avenue Francisco
Montenegro, in side of the factories of the industrial complex and the small
river of Odiel, in
the
limit of a short space of soil or peninsula among his rivers Tinto and Odiel.
The
employee in the banquet celebrated Columbus Day in
Philadelphia in 1927 decided to constitute Columbus Memorial Foundation Inc .
To keep
the
contribution of the north-American the president of U.S John Calvin Coolidge
also
participated and the idea was well received for all kings of Spain.
Dedicated
to the Discover Faith and Symbol of America Discover constitute the
most important symbol of Huelva´s city.
In the construction of the monument many artists and employers have worked, and
also Italians, Frenchs, Romans, hungers and Spanishs. They utilized stones of
Niebla´s
flowerbed. The taller part was built in three inequalities steps. The form of
the museum is a
prism cut in square section. In the higher art and its four sides, there s in
short reef the
previous discover civilizations: Egypt, ink, Maia and Christian.
On the solidity base is raised a sculpture formed in blocks of stones worked
one by
one and soldered with cement. The figure represents a man stand up, holding a
cross in
form of a T, covered with a big blanket covering his head.
It was inaugurated in April of 1929.
Inside
the taller part of the construction, hollow, that is a room with decorated walls
and relifs of maps, shields and another s different symbols, pointed the names
of he crew
member of the three boats of the discover and the members of Columbus Memorial
Foundation . These people made real the possibility of construction of the
monument.
There
s also a sculptor group representing the Catholics kings. Through a space in
the column situated on the left there is the access to the chamber. The entire
complex has
37 meters of high. It s situated in the advanced part of Sebo´s point, in
front of Atlantic
Ocean in one of the most beautiful stops of Huelva´s geographic.
Columbus House
Built for the authorities and guest to stay at
during the commemoration of the four hundred years of the Discovery of America.
It consist of various buildings around a central patio with gardens and a
fountain. A Conference Hall has been recently built behind it, the venue of the
Latin American Cinema Festival
Hermitage of La Soledad
The hermitage of La Soledad that is preserved
today and we know, has had an agitated existence throughout centuries, because
it has been place of Christian worship besides non-residents´and
underpriviledged people´s lodging, deposit of of the Notarial Protocols File,
primary school, municipal guardroom, home for epidemic sick people... and even
the municipal band´s place of rehearsal. And everything peppered with several
and sometimes ample periods of time when it was plunged into the most complete
abandonment, what undermined its structure and almost definetly destroyed it few
years ago
Cathedral of Nuestra Señora de la Merced
The
Baroque left in the
renaissance statues the actual image of religious building conservated in the
city. There is
also Merced convent especially important because of the localization in suburb
of the
village
and also for the date of the construction in 1606
Odiel
Marshes.
This
72 square km wetlands reserve lies across the Odiel estuary from Huelva. The
Odiel marshes are unspoilt and wild with a large, varied bird population. Some
of these birds can be spotted from a 20 km roadthat runs the length of the
marshes. In winter there are up to 1000 greater flamingoes and 400pairs of
spoonbill which is around one third of the European population are resident here.
Osprey, grey heron and purple heron can also be spied here.
Marismas
del Odiel are
a complex of restrings of rivers the most important of
the peninsula and one of the most productive from Europe.
The bird s population is related to Marismas de Odiel because there are a lot
on
this place and they are the refuge of many migratory species. This explains the
ecologic
interest, conditioning his significant richness in kinds of shellfish and fish.
This restrings are the second humid ambient more important of Andalusia
coastline
after Doñana. It s about an ecosystem of sand soil where the mail fauna is
spatula ,
imperials birds, real and storks, etc..
The exploration of salt, shellfish, the fishing and the livestock are the
traditional
activities and compatible with the conservation.
The walking on the boat by the different restrings of Varieties Rivers that
cross the
capital, point a pleasure moment to know better the fauna and flora.
It s recommended the visit to the traditional exploration of salt situated
on the
side of industrial exploration.
It
s also recommended that the visit to a place where there re a lot of ore, that´s
an
archeological area Salthish , rests of an urban project like a place of
XI th century situated
in Saltes island.
Declarated by Law as A Natural Stop of Odiel restings there s among its objects
the
excellent natural conservation.
Moret
Park
The
citizens of Huelva have a treasure and they do value to that: the big green
Lung of the city: an enormous green area without buildings, with more than 72
hectares of
area (724.000 m2) and situated in the urban area. This park has
three parts:
in Northwest there s Moret Park, made by forest and bush mass in the hill,
fruits
and vegetable garden in the back valleys and esplanades. In this place it s
found the four
graves of Green Lung real archeological jewels of the city.
In
West, Cabezos de Conquero is formed by slopes that, softly or brutal,
depending on the place come down until the quarter that make limit with
Marismas de
Odiel (Biosphere reserve). The presence of a local underground from the Romans
time
attracts lot of people.
In
South-West there is Huelva´s area. There s no doubt about the example of
beauty found in rural world.
The enormous importance of Green Lung is explained not only because of the
richness inside (diversity of places ad uses, many species, archeological ores
and a
complete history), but also because of the physical place where it s found: in
the middle of
Huelva. That improve the possibilities of enjoy the free time and use it like
resort for
environment
education, socio-cultural, archeological-historic, etc...
That
is probably the healthiest pace of the urban area of Huelva´s city. People can
walk to the camp, under the sun or in the shade, to look without limits created
for the city,
enjoy the green, to walk calming the silent and heard the sound of birds, the
softly whisper
of the wind, see the sun, the rain...
All this and many other reasons recommend Green Lung of Huelva as a ideal
place because can improve the quality of life, physical healthy and mental
without the
necessity
to leave the city.
Cabezo
del Conquero
In
the coronation of Cabezo, since Conquero Viewpoint, people can
enjoy the
beautiful
images and the beautiful view offered by Marismas de Odiel.
Hotels
in Huelva
