Tours of Ancient Andalusia
Iron Age Cultures
HUELVA
ITINERARY: Tejada la Vieja - Riotinto - Pozuelo - Triqgueros
- Huelva - Saltés.
Towards 800 BC a remarkable culture existed in wetern Andalusia.
Connected by trade with the Phoenicians, Tartessus developed;
the mythical king Argantonio - king of silver - reigned over
the kingdom. Many communities were devoted to the iron industry,
trade and farming. However, the province of Huelva is rich
in ore and silver and copper mining has left a deep mark of
social, economic and lanscape transformation, right from the
Bronze Age in Tartessus, under the Romans, during the Msolem
domination, up to the presence of English mining companies
in the 19th century. The village of Tejada (Escacena del Campo)
is the only place that can give us a complete idea thanks
to the town walls and layout existing from the 7th to the
4th century BC. Riotinto is at the centre of these mining
activities throughout. Victorian architecture and gigantic
open air mines exist side by side with ancient Tartessian
and Roman pits and slag heeps. The Mining Museum depicts this
part of the area's evolution. Further on, after Zalamea la
Real, the dolmens at El Pozuelo are part of a series of group
burials of the first metal cultures from the Bronze Age (4th
and 3rd centuries BC); the Soto dolmen at Trigueros is outstanding.
The museum at Huelva has splendid items that once belonged
to the Tartessian chieftains, bronzes of oriental inspiration
and Phoenician and Greek ornaments, in sharp contrast wwith
the mineral loading wharf built by the English in the port.
A Moslem mining town from the 11th and 12th centuries is being
excavated on Saltés island. Tartessian objects - pottery,
stelae, the fabolous golden treasures found at El Carambolo,
E bora and Mairena, and a small statuette of the Phoenician
goddess Astarté.
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dolmens
caves route, door
to the East route, andalusia
prehistory to islam, iron
ages, pillars
of herakles, baetica
romans towns, warriors
iberian citadels, almeria
baroque, cordova
baroque, granada,
jaen and malaga
baroque routes, bullfight
history, bullfight
spring itinerary, bullfight
summer itinerary, almeria
craft, cadiz
craft, cordova,
granada,
huelva,
jaen,
malaga
and seville
craft, carnival
route, festivals & fairs
routes, flamenco,
pilgrimages,
processions,
vintages,
cheese,
pork
and sweetes
routes, andalusia
and wines, arid
land landscape, cazorla
landscape, marshland,
mediterranean
landscape, moutains
areas, huelva
mountains, sierra
la morena, sierra
nevada, wet
lands, almeria
masterpieces, cadiz
masterpieces, cordoba,
granada,
huelva,
jaen, malaga
and seville
masterpieces, boabdil
castles, castle
routes, columbus
castles, frontier
castle, monasterys
castle, legacy
of ferdinand, manorial
estates castle, the
atlantic castle, the
mediterranean castle, cordoba
renaissance, jaen
renaissance, seville,
palatial, architeture
renaissance, alfarnate
wines, anisettes,
brandies,
huelva
wines, Jaen
wines, laujar,
malaga
wine, montilla
wine, rum,
villaviciosa
wines, The
Washington Irving route on a bicycle: from
seville to osuna (seville-Marchena,
Marchena-Osuna),
from
Osuna to Antequera (technical
chart), from
Antequera to Loja (technical
chart), from
Loja to Montefrio (technical
chart), flying
visit to Alhama (technical
chart),
from Montefrio to Granada (technical
chart), Gardens
of Cadiz and Malaga, of
Seville and Huelva, of
Cordova and Jaen, of
Granada and Almeria; The
Western and the
Central Route of White Villages; Romantic
Andalusia: Monumental, Navigable,
Oriental, Landscapes,
Contraband and Pathways
Routes; The
Western,
Northeast and Water
Route of
Subbetic Mountains; Islamic
Andalusia: Cadiz, Cordoba,
Granada
and Almeria , Seville
and Huelva, Malaga
and Jaen;
Popular
Architecture: Caves, Ranchos,
Jaen,
Alpujarras,
Axarquia,
White
Villages, Pedroches,
Huelva
and countryside,
20th
Century Architecture: Modernism, Historicism,
Modern
& Industrial
Architectures, Expositions |
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Almeria
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Cadiz
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Cordova
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Granada
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Huelva
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Jaen
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Seville
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Marbella
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Costa
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