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Cristina, an impor tant fishing
port with excellent seafood
restaurants; and Mazagón with
miles of windswept dunes.
The hilly region east of
Huelva known as El Condado
produces many of Andalucía’s
finest wines, and Bollullos del
Condado has the largest wine
cooperative in the region.
Niebla, nearby, has a Roman
bridge. The town walls and
12th-century Castillo de los
Guzmanes are both Moorish.
The famed jamón ibérico hanging in a bar in Jabugo, Sierra de Aracena
E Museo Provincial
1 Sierra de Aracena great Lisbon earthquake of Alameda Sundheim 13. Tel 959 65
1755. It is an industrial city 04 24. Open Tue–Sun. 7
Huelva. £ El Repilado. @ Aracena.
n Calle Pozo de la Nieve s/n, today, sprawling around the + Castillo de los Guzmanes
Aracena, 663 93 78 77. ( Sat. quayside on the Río Odiel. Calle Campo Castillo, Niebla.
Columbus’s departure for the Tel 959 36 22 70. Open daily.
This wild mountain range is one New World (see p60) from Palos
of the most remote and least de la Frontera, across the Río
visited corners of Andalucía. Odiel estuary, is celebrated in 3 Monasterio de
On the hillside are the ruins of the excellent Museo Provincial,
a Moorish fort. The hill is which also charts the la Rábida
pitted with caverns and history of the Rio Tinto Huelva. @ from Huelva. Tel 959 35
in one, the Gruta de mines. To the east of the 04 11. Open Tue–Sun. 7 8 &
las Maravillas, is a lake centre, the Barrio Reina
in a chamber hung Victoria is a bizarre Four kilometres (2 miles) to
with many stalactites. example of English the north of Palos de la Frontera
The village of Jabugo mock-Tudor suburban is the Franciscan Monasterio
is famed for its ham, bungalows built by the de la Rábida, founded in the
jamón ibérico, or pata Rio Tinto Company for 15th century.
negra (see p422). its workers in the early In 1491, a dejected Columbus
Off the A471 are the 20th century. South of sought refuge here after his
giant opencast mines at the town, at Punta del plans to sail west to find the
Minas de Riotinto, where Bronze jug, Museo Sebo, the Monumento East Indies had been rejected by
iron, copper and silver Provincial, Huelva a Colón, a rather bleak the Catholic Monarchs. Its prior,
have been exploited statue of Columbus Juan Pérez, fatefully used his
since Phoenician times. The created by Gertrude Vanderbilt considerable influence as
Museo Minero traces the history Whitney in 1929, dominates Queen Isabella’s confessor
of the Rio Tinto Company. the Odiel estuary. to reverse the royal decision.
Inside, frescoes painted by
} Gruta de las Maravillas Environs Daniel Vásquez Díaz in 1930
Pozo de la Nieve. Tel 663 93 78 76 There are three resorts with glorify the explorer’s life and
(for info about availability). Open sandy beaches near Huelva: discoveries. Also worth seeing
10am–1:30pm, 3–6pm. & 8 Punta Umbria, on a promontory are the Mudéjar cloisters, the
E Museo Minero next to the bird-rich wetlands flower-filled gardens and
Plaza del Museo. Tel 959 59 00 25. of the Marismas del Odiel; Isla the beamed chapterhouse.
Open daily. Closed 1 & 6 Jan, 25 Dec.
& 7 8 ∑ parqueminero
deriotinto.es

2 Huelva
Huelva. * 130,000. £ @ n Calle
Jesús Nazareno 21, 959 65 02 00.
( Fri. _ Las Columbinas (3 Aug).
Founded as Onuba by the
Phoenicians, Huelva had its
grandest days as a Roman port.
It was almost wiped out in the Frescoes depicting the life of Columbus at the Monasterio de la Rábida
For hotels and restaurants in this region see pp572–4 and pp598–602

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