Events, local discoveries and useful stories for your time here.
Palos de la Frontera is a small, history-heavy town on the Tinto estuary in Huelva — the port from which Columbus set sail in 1492, with the La Rábida monastery where the voyage was planned just down the road. It's a quiet, low-rise Andalusian town surrounded by strawberry fields, more about its past and its riverside setting than beaches or nightlife.
That history comes alive at the Medieval Discovery Fair, when the streets fill with period stalls and re-enactments of the explorers' era, while the Tapa Fair gives a tastier reason to wander the town. Here's what's on while you're here.
14Mar
The whole old town of Palos travels back to the late 1400s for a free open-air medieval fair marking the return of the C
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