HUELVA
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Huelva. Province capital Tartessischen of origin, the Roman Onuba Estauria and this antiquity Onus Baal (fortress of Baal) the Tartessia, that settled at the strategically important place between the rivers Tinto and Odiel. This of Alfons of the X 1257 return conquered country carried in the earthquake of 1755 heavy damages from it. However, it is some constructions from the time before the vibration, San Pedro and La Concepción 16 century and the former Mercedarier cloister, today the cathedral 18 century, get like the churches.
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It moves mine activity at beginning of the century, an English seal pressed the architecture of some quarters and left the posterity the Columbus house. The quarter Reina Victoria is known as worker quarter, and the pier for mineral (Bruce 1876) belongs to the most remarkable of their type. Accentuating are Pinzón also the business streets, Concepción and Avda Martin Alonso, that Columbus monument Punta Del Sebo (Whitney 1929) as well as the harbor on the headland.
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| The Columbus party, in August and events of big attraction are the festival of the Ibero-American film in December. The congress palace of the Columbus house offers halls from 822 places and facilities of all the type.
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