Hotels in Huelva, Spain

Huelva, a Spanish town of Andalusia, in recent years has begun to develop its tourist offer. This is a modern commercial and industrial city set in an agricultural region, which is about fifty kilometers from Portugal and from the Algarve coast.

Just under 150 000 inhabitants live in Huelva, a town built on the peninsula where the mouths of the rivers Tinto and Odiel join. The city has an ancient history: in the centuries it has been occupied by Phoenicians, Greeks, Romans and Arabs. In 1755 it suffered the devastating effects of the earthquake that destroyed Lisbon and only with the mining industry in the twentieth century it began its industrialization.

Huelva is an industrial city which in recent years has chosen to develop its tourism offer. The classic attractions abound. As the sixteenth century Gothic church of San Pedro with a belfry-minaret, the Catedral de la Merced, the shrine of Nuestra Señora de la Cinta with a castle of Roman origin, Casa Colon - built in 1883 to commemorate the discovery of the Americas and of course, several museums, including the provincial museum of archeology.