Architour - Architecture Walking Tour - Huelva (Spain)

Architour - Huelva (Spain)

Discover Huelva - Andalusia (Spain) during an architectural walk along the waterfront and through the center of Huelva with its traditional, modernist and rational architectural objects. From beautiful 18th century palacios to the Riena Victoria residential area from the Rio Tinto Limited mining company for its employees (1916). But you also will find some surprising modernist / brutalist buidings from the 80s.

Huelva is a surprising city, on the eve of a major 'transformation'. From 'dirty industrial city' to 'a pearl at the mouth of the river'

The image of Huelva used to be mainly determined by the Riotinto Limited mining company, who used the port of Huelva to transfer copper ore from the mines in the north via a large cast iron pier to the boats in the port.

With the abolition of this production and the transformation of the pier - El Muelle - into a walking pier and the development of the river area into a tourist bicycle and walking route that runs until the statue of Colubus a few kilometers further on.

A new central market was created with new apartments on a wide boulevard, where it is pleasant to stroll towards the waterfront and where you will encounter some nice restaurants with excellent meals and terraces on your way.

The coming years, the 'Muelle de Levante' pier (see the video at project no. 41) will be overhauled and a park-like environment will be created here with a new museum, spaces for the university, a shopping center and a 33-floors residential tower that will become a new landmark.

If the “high-speed train” to Sevilla that has been promised for years with a new station finaly starts, nothing will keep Huelva away from becoming the new “hotspot” of Andalusia.

Huelva has no large cathedrals or palaces, but the city does have some interesting buildings in different architectural styles. There are the older classical palacios and the more modern buildings.

They are often the work of the city architects such as José María Pérez Carasa and Alejandro Herrero Ayllon. In a style that is called “O Modernismo”. In more southern countries “O Modernismo” is closer to Art Nouveau & Art-Deco than in the northern countries. The term 'Modernism', in these countries has more references to the 'international' Bauhaus' and the LeCorbusier style. This reference fits more with the Spanish style 'Rationalism' from architects such as Alejandro Herrero Aylión. Walk and enjoy what you encounter.

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