If one speaks of the history of this place, one almost talks province Huelva about the history of the total. Long, the kingdom of Ibn Mahfuz united in the Laibla "Taifla "Niebla already before the formation of this province, and all today the province Huelva of belonging areas and even parts of the Portuguese Algarve. The geographical situation was the basis for the splendor time of the Roman Ilipla. From it the bridge over the river Rio Tinto still today certificate casts off and their remains exposed in excavations today in the museum of the antique hospital of Nuestra Señora de los Angeles, a building from the XVI century, that is a culture house today, issued is.

The reddish cooler of these walls gave its name to the city during the Muslim epoch. She was in the writing of the Arabic geographers as "this red "known, the walls consist of a two kilometres long city wall that adapts itself to the terrain and has 40 towers. Of those until on three octagonal ones all rectangular is. Apart, it has five main gates from several small gates: the Sevilla gate, that the Socorro - (help) gate, that of Buey (bull) gate, that of Embarcadero (pier) gate and the Auga - (water) gate.