PALOS DE LA FRONTERA
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The historic Palos de la Frontera, in whose city area of
La Rábida itself, that "cradle of the discovery "decides, is with his white ones, shines the houses a typically Andalusia small town. It lies at the left edge of the Rio Tinto and is surrounded from modern agriculture businesses, usually strawberry fields, that the look of his surroundings changed and the city a new prestige procured. The historic and splendid Palos won his shape through an event, America's discovery, that is memory of the inhabitants in it awake still today.
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A walk through his streets and places equals the reviving of his glorious story. In the church San Jorge, that protection sanctify of the city, the royal letter with the ordinances over equipment and personnel of the discoverer ships was read,
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in the Innern of the church, one can a Santa Ana cut in alabaster from the 13 Year hundred and a ceramics altarpiece of toskanischen style from dem17. Century admires. Still is mudéjar in this beautiful Gothic - construction three paintings from the 16. Century of San Jorge, Santiago and the virgin's coronation, as well as a crucifies and Santa Ana, also from the renaissance. If one goes down at a place, where it in the beginnings of the 15 decided of Century a mouth, that connected the river with the city, one meets with the near situated La Fontanilla.
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