Tours of Castles and Monasteries in Andalusia
Sancho IV the brave and Columbus
HUELVA
ITINERARY 1: Aroche - Cortegana - Almonaster - Cumbres Mayores
- Aracena - Santa Olalla.
ITINERARY 2: Niebla - Lucena del Puerto - Moguer - La Rábida
- Cartaya.
Two very different itineraries. The first takes us among the
hills: a series of defensive castles put up or rebuilt mainly
in the 13th c. by the Castilians as a result of their mistrust
of the neighbouring Kingdom of Portugal; then there are the
fortresses of Aroche and Cumbres Mayores, with a bullring
inside; the castle of Cortegana is in a magnificent setting;
the castle of Almonster has a small mosque, that of Aracena,
said to be built by the Knights Templar, a Gothic-mudéjar
church. A review of the Kingdom of Seville's defence lines
can conclude with the castle of Santa Olalla and then on by
the area known as El Condado to "the beach of Castille"
on the Atlantic coast. Admirers of castles can admire the
walls of Niebla and the great mound of the castle of Los Guzmanes
within. Cartaya has a 13th c. castle. Those choice tends towards
monasteries have a wide choice: near Lucena del Puerto, there
is La Hacienda de la Luz with a Gothic church of what used
to be a Hieronymite convent; at Moguer we have the monastery
of Santa Clara with its Diocesan Museum of Sacred Art. In
the neighbourhood of Palos, there is the small Franciscan
monastery of La Rábida, that has strong associations
with Columbus and his voyage of discovery.
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Washington Irving route on a bicycle: from
seville to osuna (seville-Marchena,
Marchena-Osuna),
from
Osuna to Antequera (technical
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Antequera to Loja (technical
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Andalusia: Monumental, Navigable,
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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;
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