Huelva

Huelva is located along the Gulf of Cadiz, the coast on the border of Spain and Portugal in the Costa de la Luz.

It is a beautiful city with both mountainous areas (La Sierra) and beachs (La Costa). This allows visitors to enjoy mountain and forest landscape yet still find hidden, deserted beaches and traditional fishing villages.

Huelva is a very rich historical city and has been an important port since the Antiquity. First occupied by Phoenicians and the Romans and after this, by the Moors, you can still find evidence of the different civilizations which inhabited this area. Just passing through the city, you will see a striking Roman aquaduct.

In the 15th century, Christopher Columbus recruited local sailors with the aim of discovering a new territory far West and those who come to Huelva will have the opportunity to visit the places where Columbus sought the aid of the Fransicans at the monastery of La Rábida.

The city suffered substantial damage in the 1755 Lisbon earthquake, but in the 19th century the city faced an economic boom due to mining activity in the mountains.

Since then, British people who were attracted to the region began to change the city´s architecture and the streets, constructing impressive British style houses and a train station (Estación de Sevilla).