Province of Huelva - Provincia di Huelva

Province of Huelva
Sunset at the Doñana National Park
Location
Province of Huelva - Location
Coat of arms and flag
Province of Huelva - Coat of arms
Huelva Province - Flag
State
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Capital
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Inhabitants
Tourism site
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Province of Huelva is a territory ofAndalusia.

To know


Territories and tourist destinations

  • El Andévalo
  • El Condado
  • Costa Occidental
  • Cuenca Minera
  • Comarca metropolitan de Huelva
  • Sierra de Huelva

Urban centers

  • Huelva - Provincial capital, Huelva is an industrial port with oil refineries and thermoelectric power plants located on the estuary of the Tinto and Odiel rivers. The city is famous for the festivities that take place every year between late July and early August and celebrate the departure of Christopher Columbus for the Americas (Fiestas Colombinas).
  • Almonte
  • Ayamonte
  • Bollullos Par del Condado
  • El Rocío - Village of 1,000 inhabitants with a Marian shrine, destination in the week of Pentecost of a pilgrimage (Romería de El Rocío) in which 1,000,000 devotees participate.
  • Moguer
  • Niebla - Today a modest village of 4,000 inhabitants, Niebla it was a settlement inhabited continuously since the Neolithic to reach its apogee in the Almoravid period and from the time it retains imposing walls and about fifty bastions.
  • Palos de la Frontera

Costa de la Luz

  • 1 Isla Cristina - Fishing port among the largest in Spain.
  • 2 Lepe - Town of about 30,000 inhabitants with equipped and non-equipped beaches in its immediate vicinity.
  • 3 Matalascañas
  • 4 Mazagón
  • 5 Punta Umbría

Sierras

  • 6 Almonaster la Real - Village of 1,800 inhabitants in the sierra di Aracena and at more than 900 m a.s.l. It has interesting monuments including one mezquita obtained from a Christian basilica of the 5th century AD.
  • 7 Alájar
  • 8 Aracena
  • 9 Linares de la Sierra
  • 10 Minas de Riotinto

Other destinations

  • 1 Marismas del Odiel
  • 2 Doñana National Park (Parque Nacional de Doñana) - With more than 300,000 visitors per year, the Doñana national park it is the major attraction of the province of Huelva, in 11th place in the ranking of national parks in Spain by number of visitors. It extends over coastal marshes which are home to a varied fauna. It was declared a World Heritage Site by Unesco in 1994.


How to get


How to get around


What see

  • Monasterio de La Rábida. Monasterio de Santa María de la Rábida (Q2580841) on Wikidata


What to do


At the table


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