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HUELVA Information: THE MARK OF THE DISCOVERY OF AMERICA |
 In an Andalusia so steeped in history, Huelva is the area which is very closely related to the Discovery of America. It was from the long-gone docks of the municipality of Pal os de la Frontera that the caravels set sail on 3rd August 1492.  It is also the location of La Rabida Monastery, which is a Gothic-Mudejar church featuring one of the oldest crucifixes in Andalusia, the beautiful Mudejar style cloisters and 20th Century murals by Vazquez Diaz.  Palos is a spruce, lively village. In this, the home town of the Pinzan brothers, the visitor may admire their House-Museum and the original brick Mudejar Church of San Jorge, with its historical Bride and Bridegroom Entrance.  The nearby Fontanilla, a delightful place which has recently been renovated, supplied the water which Christopher Columbus used on his voyage of discovery.  Further on is Moguer, which boasts the Monastery of Santa Clara, perhaps the most outstanding monument of the province in size and artistic value. It is in the Gothic-Mudejar style par excellence of the era of the discovery of America: Not far away are the Convent of San Francisco, the Corpus Christi Hospital converted into a theatre, the Town Hall in a resplendent Andalusian Neoclassical style, and the huge Church of Nuestra Senora de la Granada, which has a tower reminiscent of the Giralda.  Platero no longer trots through the streets of Moguer, but the Museum of Juan Raman Jimenez evokes his creator. 
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CarMalaga.Com Tip: Huelva coast |
| Huelva offers immense beaches scattered with shells and with nothing but water, dunes and pine groves in sight. However, there are also places on the coast, with a lively atmosphere which cater for the young. Quality tourism is represented by an abundance of good hotels and golf courses. Punta Umbria, enjoys a mild, slightly humid microclimate and has long beaches funged with pine trees or junipers. In the direction of Cartaya the traveller passes through Laguna del Portil, El Rompido and ilia del Piedras. | |
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