Things to see and do Province Of Huelva

Doñana is one of Europe's most important and beautiful wetlands. Located in Andalusia. With its 30 kilometers of pristine beaches, Doñana is a veritable natural spectacle that transforms itself with each passing season. Visitors can observe over 230 species of birds, including colonies of pink flamingos that form a spectacular "pink carpet". To discover the park, you can hike or bike the protected trails, observe the wildlife from the observatories or book guided off-road tours, bike rides or horseback rides on the beach. Another option is to climb aboard the Real Fernando tourist boat, which sails the Guadalquivir River. Not to be missed in the region: the village of El Rocío, the Romería d'El Rocío, the saca d'yeguas and the sights of Huelva, La Rábida, Sanlúcar de Barrameda and Moguer.

It is responsible for the economic development of the area.

Lost in the fields, the Dolmen de Soto was discovered by chance in 1923. It is one of more than 200 megalithic monuments found in Huelva province, erected between the Neolithic and the bronze age. If the region has many megaliths of this type, it distinguishes itself by its size. The gallery is part of a circle of stones, unfortunately disappeared, which originally reached 75 metres in diameter, which is the longest dolmen in Spain. As in Campo Lameiro, the dolmen is buried under an artificial hill. The building had several functions: it was buried in a mother and a child, whose skeletons were found, but certainly also in terms of timing and observatory. The stone blocks supporting the roof of the gallery are all engraved with signs and symbols.

In the interpretation centre, a documentary in synthetic images details the construction of the dolmen by the population of a neighbouring village whose traces were found at 400 m from the site. A second film focuses more closely on the symbols found in the gallery.

With the dolmen approach, please note the ambulatory, which is still visible on the ground and which did the entire round of hill. Some stones remained, but most disappeared, parts for the construction of houses around or used as galleries to attend the bullfighting, as shown in the ground of the arena, which encroaches on the mound. We enter the latter with a 21 m long gallery and at the end of which the ceiling height reaches 3,5 m. The biggest stone supporting the whole weighs over 20 tons! Excavations carried out during his discovery found 8 skeletons, including that of a child. Most of them had a very large number of engravings: daggers, anthropomorphic silhouettes or symbols adorn stones in different places, without a precise reading or interpretation of the stones.

The restoration of the site has been very well conducted. The interpretation centre, drowned in the landscape, is almost invisible and the lighting of the gallery has been thought of so as to highlight the engravings.

In 2015, the municipality sought to acquire part of the adjacent field where there is a second dolmen, a little smaller dolmen that has not yet been subjected to full excavations and studies. Early research in the 1920 s found the skeletons of 18 to 20 individuals, some crouching and supported against walls and others lying on their backs. So the site is still far from having delivered all its secrets.

Built in 1872 by George Bruce, inspired by Gustave Eiffel, this former copper transport terminal bears witness to this past activity and constitutes a beautiful viewpoint on the river. On foot, for the bravest and by bike for the others, or by car, you can follow this bank of the Odiel to the tip of Sebo. Where the two rivers El Tinto and El Odiel meet. All will meet there a monument built in 1929, dedicated to the Fe descubridora and which represents the monk of Rabida who helped Columbus in the development of his first trip.

At the confluence of the Mediterranean and Atlantic regions, between Guadalquivir and the ocean, this former hunting reserve is a paradise of more than 100,000 hectares created in 1969 to protect its biological reserve, its fauna and flora. It consists of beaches, shifting dunes and fossils (the park's dune system is one of the most complete in Europe), marshes and transition areas (La Vera), lagoon complexes with quicksand, as well as stabilized areas (cotos) covered with forests with pine forests that are home to many mammals. Located at the crossroads of the provinces of Huelva, Seville and Cadiz, this national park, in a good state of conservation, is classified as a Biosphere Reserve by UNESCO. Indeed, this protected area, benefiting from a good climate, is of great richness for the European continent, since it is chosen by many bird species that migrate to Europe and Africa. This precious natural and ecological area thus serves as a refuge for more than 300 species of birds and even for some species of animals, unfortunately on the verge of extinction, including the Spanish lynx and the Iberian imperial eagle.