Moguer - Moguer

Moguer It is a city of about 22,000 inhabitants that rises on a low hill to the left of the Tinto River. It is separated by about 19 km from its Mazagón beach, another 19 km from Huelva capital, and only 80 km away is the Andalusian capital, Seville.

It should be noted that it has the declaration of Asset of Cultural Interest, with the category of Historic Site, the places linked to Juan Ramón Jiménez; the declaration of a historical-artistic complex is the sector called "Columbian Places" and, in addition, its "Historical Center" and most of its monuments have the declaration of Asset of Cultural Interest.

To get

The main access to the municipality is produced, from the north, through the A-49 highway through the autonomous A-494. But there are also accesses through the national N-422 and the provincial H-624 through Palos de la Frontera, the regional A-494 through the municipality of Almonte and the regional A-486 through Lucena del Puerto.

The urban area of ​​Moguer is accessed through the A-494 through the avenues of the Hermanos Niño, del Quinto Centenario, Venida de la Virgen and de América; and from the Marisma road along Calle de la Ribera. The urban area of ​​Mazagón is accessed from the A-494 through Avenida de los Conquistadores (west), El Dorado street, Avenida del Arroyo de la Miel and Avenida de los Conquistadores (east).

Main tourist landmarks

Juan Ramon Jimenez

Moguer has been able to save and make everyday the memory of Juan Ramón Jiménez, universal poet and Nobel Prize Winner for Literature born in this corner of southwestern Andalusia in 1881. It is in the streets of Moguer's "Blanca Maravilla" - in the words of the Nobel Prize winner. - where the experiences of the poet and his donkey are developed in the famous work Platero and me.

Currently, the places linked to Juan Ramón Jiménez, the Juan Ramón Jiménez Birthplace (19th century), his Zenobia House Museum and Juan Ramón are preserved in Moguer, with a declaration of Asset of Cultural Interest, with the category of Historic Site. (18th century), the farm and house of Fuentepiña, where Platero is buried (19th century), the house he lived in on Aceña Street (19th century), and the parish cemetery (19th century), where the mausoleum of Juan Ramón and his wife Zenobia.

Colombian city

Moguer is part of the historical-artistic itinerary known as the Columbian Places , having had special relevance in the preparations and in the Discovery of America.

He contributed almost a third of the crew of the discoverer voyage (Juan Niño, Pedro Alonso Niño, Francisco Niño, Luis de Torres, Juan de Jerez, Juan de Moguer, Francisco García Vallejos, Juan Quintero, Juan Vecano, Juan Arraez, Alonso de Morales, Maestre Alonso, Bartolomé Roldán, Diego Leal, among others) and one of the caravels, La Niña, built in the shipyards of the port of Mogue in around 1488. On several occasions the streets of Moguer saw Admiral Christopher Columbus pass by, looking for of help. Support that he found in the clergyman Martín Sánchez, the landowner Juan Rodríguez Cabezudo to whom he entrusted the custody of his son Diego, and the abbess of the Santa Clara Monastery, Inés Enríquez, aunt of King Fernando el Católico; but above all in the Child Brothers who were key in the preparation and development of the discovery journey.

On the return from America, the Columbian Vow took place in the church of the Santa Clara Monastery, carried out on the return trip when a strong storm was about to capsize the caravel. The girl .

Monuments

The Moguera town has hundreds of stately homes that are still inhabited today from the 16th, 18th and 19th centuries, making the historic center a faithful reflection of the passing of the centuries in this seafaring and agrarian city. In addition, many of the best monuments in the entire province of Huelva are also found in Moguer, with churches, chapels and first-rate civil buildings.

See also: Annex: Andalusian Historical Heritage in the Metropolitan Region of Huelva.

• Historic Center of the urban area of ​​Moguer (B.I.C): The hamlet that makes up the historic center of the urban area of ​​Moguer has the declaration of Asset of Cultural Interest with the typology of Historical Complex.
• Moguer Sculpture Open Air Museum: It is a permanent and public exhibition of sculptures and monuments, distributed throughout the urban area of ​​Moguer.
• Pinete Fountain: Mudejar fountain from the 13th century with a temple on four sides, two of them open, and a water trough, located on the old Camino Real de Sevilla.
• Hermitage of Montemayor : The current building comes from the 15th, 18th and 20th centuries, with numerous extension reforms to which it has been subjected.

Monuments B.I.C. of the Columbian Places:

• Castle : A renovated and expanded Almohad building from the 14th century whose origins date back to a Roman villa from the beginning of our era. Inside there is an interesting cistern with two naves, from the Almohad period.
  

  Convent of San Francisco.
• Port of Moguer : Old port of Moguereño that had a loading dock, dry dock and shipyards. In them the caravel was built between 1487 and 1490 The girl .
• Santa Clara Monastery : It was founded in 1337 by Alonso Jofre Tenorio. The set of buildings that make up the monastery has been listed as a National Monument since 1931. It is the most outstanding Columbian monument in Moguer, and next to it is the Columbus Monument.
• Chapel of the Corpus Christi Hospital : This building was erected in the 14th century, forming part of the first male monastery that was erected in Moguer. It is in the Gothic-Mudejar style.
• Convent of San Francisco : The convent of San Francisco began to be built at the end of the 15th century, although the church was not finished until the seventies of the 16th century and the cloister until the 17th century. It is the headquarters of the Municipal Historical Archive and Ibero-American Library.
• Church of Our Lady of Granada : The church of Nuestra Señora de la Granada is a temple built in the 18th century on the ruins of the old Mudejar parish from the 14th century
• Town Hall : The Moguereño council building is a civil building from the second half of the 18th century.

Monuments B.I.C. of the Juanramonian places:

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  Zenobia-J.R.J House-Museum.
  Zenobia and Juan Ramón House Museum : House of the 18th century. It preserves belongings, books and personal belongings of the Nobel Prize winner Juan Ramón Jiménez.
• Juan Ramón Jiménez Birthplace : House of the XIX century. Birthplace of Juan Ramón Jiménez.
• Sourcepiña : Residence of the poet's rest from which a beautiful panoramic view of Moguer can be seen.
• Hermitage of San Sebastián : It was built between the 16th to the 18th centuries. It is in the Baroque style and is popularly known as the Hermitage of Jesus. It has B.I.C. protection. as a complex attached to the cemetery where the Juan Ramón y Zenobia pantheon is located.

Natural spaces

The natural spaces of the municipality of Moguer account for more than 61% of the territory. The public mountains of the municipality of Moguer are distributed in 12,462.2 hectares, of these 3,590.3 hectares are included within the Doñana National Park and the remaining 8,871.81 hectares constitute the public forest of municipal ownership.

We can classify them as protected and unprotected. Among those not protected, the public mountain of the Moguer City Council is included, which is outside the protected areas L.I.C. (Places of Community Interest).

The spaces with various protection figures are:

• Doñana national and natural park : Presents different coastal ecosystems: dunes, forest masses, lagoons and marshland areas. They are 3590.3 ha. of the municipal term of Moguer those that belong to this natural space. It is considered the largest ecological reserve of Europe. It was declared a World Heritage Site by UNESCO in 1994.
• Laguna de las Madres y Palos Natural Area: Located in the municipal terms of Moguer and Palos de la Frontera. In it we can find a wide variety of animal and plant species.
• Dehesa del Estero Domingo Rubio and runner to the Doñana Natural Park: Pinar de dehesa and head of the Estero Domingo Rubio Natural Park with protection L.I.C.. It has an area of ​​3,625.75 hectares. Among the flora we highlight stone pine, rockrose thicket, mastic, palm hearts, jaguars, etc. Among the fauna, wild boars, otters, royal and imperial herons, shovelers, cattle herons, chameleons, etc.
• Marshes and Riberas del Tinto: Protection zone L.I.C. from the Rio Tinto. It has an area of ​​823.32 hectares.
• Beaches of Mazagón: Set of beaches and sandy ravines that constitute a virgin territory. A part of them is protected as an L.I.C. In them is the urban area of ​​Mazagón.

Events of interest

In the field of culture and traditions, the following festivals and celebrations that have a special tourist interest stand out.

The Evening in honor of Virgen de Montemayor, known in Moguer as "the Days of the Virgin". The procession of the Ms, the day of the Nativity of Holy Mary, through the streets of the city. Meanwhile, for about five days, the party is lived in a more playful way at the town's fairgrounds, which has more than 250 booths.

The Pilgrimage of the Virgin of Montemayor It takes place every second weekend in May in the pine forests that surround the hermitage of La Patrona. These days, thousands of pilgrims come to the site to venerate the "Queen of the Pinares".

The Holy Week It has a special relevance in Moguer, as is evident in the different brotherhoods that process from Palm Sunday to Holy Saturday. Eight brotherhoods currently carry out a penance station.

Other cultural activities: There are, throughout the year, other cultural activities related to the Discovery of America and Juan Ramón Jiménez. Among the acts of the discovery, it is worth highlighting the celebration, on March 16, of the Colombian vote; the departure of the discovery expedition, every August 3; and the annual commemoration of the discovery of the new lands, every October 12. They are Juanramonian commemorations, the cultural acts of the imposition of the "Silver Parsley", which is awarded annually by the "Fundación Juan Ramón Jiménez".

Also noteworthy is the annual celebration of the Moguer Flamenco Singing Festival, organized by the Peña de Cante Jondo de Moguer on the second weekend of July.

What to eat

In its gastronomy the cuttlefish with beans, stripe in paprika, dogfish in adobo, white prawns, coquinas and clams, heartburn, sole and corvinas stand out. Its fruity and white wines, and orange wine are produced under the Denomination of origin "Condado de Huelva".

Among its typical products, it is worth mentioning the “La Victoria” cakes, the vermouth wine from the Sáenz wineries and the strawberry, a product of which Moguer is the largest national producer.

accommodation

Moguer

• Nazaret rural tourist complex *** Place of Fuentepiña. Ctra de Moguer al Algarrobito km 2. Phone: 959 373 032/959 372 483. Fax: 959 371 949.

• Hotel Plaza del Escribano **. Postal address: Plaza Escribano, 5. Tlf .: 959 373 063. Fax: 959 370 287. [email protected].

• PLATERO Hostel ** C / Santa Ángela de la Cruz. Phone: 959 372 159

• Hostal SANTA CLARA, C / Juan Ramón Jiménez. Phone: 959 370 799

Mazagon

• Cristobal Colón National Parador **** Mazagón beach, Ctra. Huelva - Matalascañas km. 2. / Phone: 34 959 53 63 00 / Fax. 34 959 53 62 28 [email protected]

• Solvasa / Mazagón Apartahotel **** Cuesta de la Barca, s / n. / Phone: 34 959 37 78 79 / FAX. 34 959 37 74 00 / [email protected]

• Hotel Mazagonia **** Avda. Santa Clara s / n / Tlf .: 34 959 37 78 70 / [email protected]

• Hotel Albaida *** Ctra. Huelva - Matalascañas. (Urb. The lighthouse). / Phone: 34 959 37 60 29 / FAX. 34 959 37 61 08 [email protected]

• Aparthotel Martín Alonso Pinzón Avda. Conquistadores / Tlf .: 34 959 37 78 28 / FAX. 34 959 37 68 11

• Aparthotel El Remo Avda. Conquistadores, 123. / Tlf .: 34 959 37 60 20 / Fax. 34 959 37 78 63 [email protected]

• Hilaria Hostel. C / Hilaria. Phone: 959 376 206

• Aquarium Hostel. Avda Fuentepiña. Phone: 959 377 286

• Hostal Álvarez Quintero. C / Hernando de Soto. Phone: 959 376 169

• Campimg Doñana Beach. Ctra. San Juan del Puerto - Matalascañas, km 34.6. [email protected]

See also

• Wikipedia has an article on Moguer.w: Moguer
• Wikimedia Commons houses multimedia content about Moguer. Commons