🏛️ Historical Heritage
🗿 El Pozuelo Megalithic Necropolis
In Zalamea la Real, a group of a dozen Copper Age dolmens with complex funerary chambers, among the most singular in the southwest of the peninsula.
Archaeological Site⛏️ Riotinto Cultural Landscape
The most representative mining area in Andalusia, with colossal open-pit mines, the Victorian quarter of Bellavista and the English mining railway.
Industrial heritage⛏️ Riotinto Mines
A landscape and mining installations protected as industrial heritage. Worked for 5,000 years by Tartessians, Romans and the British, they offer a landscape unique in the world.
Rock art or historic site🌿 Nature
🔴 Tinto River
World famous for the intense red of its acidic waters, caused by the weathering of sulphide minerals. It has been studied by NASA as an analogue for Mars.
River, lake or reservoir🎭 Culture
🐂 Campofrío Bullring
Built in 1716, historians consider it one of the oldest permanent circular bullrings in Spain, surrounded by a unique mining landscape.
Bullring🚂 Riotinto Mining Museum
It shows the region's impressive mining history, with a graveyard of 19th-century trains, the maharaja's carriage and access to the Peña de Hierro open-pit mine.
Museum🍽️ Gastronomy
🔥 Mountain Aguardiente
A dry, strong spirit typical of the mountain villages of Huelva such as Zalamea la Real, made in family stills and served as a digestif after meals.
Gastronomy🏄 Sports Activities
🧗 Climbing in the Mining Basin
Sectors on the slate and volcanic rock walls around Riotinto, with unusual climbing in a mining landscape of impossible colours.
Climbing Easy🪢 Huelva Sierra Canyons
Gentle descents along the streams of the Sierra de Aracena, among chestnut groves and water mills, with reliable flow in winter and spring.
Canyoning Easy🚴 Mining Basin MTB Route
Tracks through the Martian landscape of Riotinto, skirting open-pit mines, spoil heaps in impossible colours and the red bed of the Tinto river.
Cycling route Moderate🥾 Mining Landscape Trail
A route around Riotinto skirting the open-pit mines and the red river, an otherworldly landscape NASA studies as a Mars analogue.
Hiking trail Moderate🥾 Peña de Hierro Trail
A route in Nerva to a sixty-metre deep open-pit mine and the source of the Tinto river, with an underground gallery open to visitors.
Hiking trail Easy⛰️ Sierra de Aracena Summits
Gentle hills around a thousand metres at the western end of the Sierra Morena, without snow but with persistent mist and the largest chestnut groves in the south.
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