Huelva is a city in southwestern Spain, the capital of the province of Huelva in the autonomous community of Andalusia.
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11 Facts About Huelva
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Huelva is home to Recreativo de Huelva, the oldest football club in Spain.
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At least up to the 1980s and 1990s, the mainstream view was that Huelva at first was an autochthonous Tartessian settlement yet some later views tended to rather stress a pluri-ethnic enclave mixing natives with peoples with a mainly Phoenician and later Greek extraction.
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Huelva hosted a mint; and many coins have been found there bearing the name of the town as Onuba.
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From 1265 onward, Huelva enjoyed an exemption from the portazgo tribute, portage tax .
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Huelva acquired the status of city by means of a royal decree from 17 September 1876.
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Huelva is in the Southwest of the Iberian Peninsula, in the Gulf of Cadiz, facing the Atlantic Ocean.
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Huelva's train station is a shadow of its former self, and exists on a spur line.
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Huelva is warmer than places on the immediate coastline, with cooler maritime air warming up in summer over the river delta.
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Miguel Baez y Espuny [1], called el Litri, is a retired bullfighter very famous from Huelva, his son, named Miguel Baez Spinola, was a very renowned bullfighter retired in 1999.
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