El Rompido

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El Rompido is a village at the mouth of the Río Piedras in the Atlantic Ocean, about 20 km as the crow west-southwest of the city of Huelva. The village belongs to the municipality of Cartaya.

Originally El Rompido was a small fishing port with two lighthouses, one of which is from the 19th century. From the 1980s, the tourism shaped the local life and became the decisive economic factor.

Geography

The dynamic processes between sea and estuary created a remarkable landscape formation at this section of the coast compensation from Lepe to Cartaya. The Flecha del Rompido. South of the town, on the other side of the river, a vast Spit, with an original dune vegetation and a sandy, wide beach extends She can be reached only by a ferry or on foot from the well site located 5km west of La Antilla; therefore find there wide, almost untouched beach sections. Together with this side of the river nearby, the tidal marsh marshes subject to the Marshes de San Miguel is the Flecha a coherent conservation area.

River -side dunes Flecha del Rompido on the

Sea -side sand dunes on the Flecha del Rompido

View from the conservation area from the west to the place

Marshes of San Miguel

History

Finds in the vicinity occupy human settlement at the mouth of the Río Piedras since the Paleolithic. In the year 1971 208 pieces of quartzite from the period have been found from the 9th to the 3rd millennium BC, at a site on the river's northern bank. The hunters, gatherers and fishermen that era found an environment with rich resources for survival.

In the pastures of San Miguel was found a kiln from the Roman period. He served for burning amphorae in which foods were probably eingesalzt. It is an indication of the existence of a Roman period settlement was processed in the fish.

About the local conditions during the Islamic rule, there is no knowledge.

1262 Alfonso X conquered the Muslim city Libla, today's Niebla, and immediately thereafter, the entire surrounding region. In the 15th century, the region experienced a period of prosperity. The Marquis of Gibraleón advertised with privileges and tax breaks to attract settlers. It emerged the places Cartaya, Sanlucar de Guadiana, and in 1458 San Miguel Arca de Buey at the site of today's old lighthouse of El Rompido. At the highest point of the hill, the present site of the Hotel Fuerte del Rompido, the Castillo de San Miguel castle and the parish church were built. Your cemetery was only recently discovered in excavations. Together with the two lighthouses that were built under Philip II late 16th and early 17th century, the castle watched over the entrance to the river, and thus access to the ports of Cartaya and Lepe.

The population of San Miguel suffered from frequent raids of Turkish and Berber pirates who infested this coast. Several times, the city was sacked, so that the inhabitants gradually moved away. 1597 recruited the Marquis Don Francisco Lopez de Zuniga y Sotomayor Gibraleón again with privileges to attract new settlers to the almost deserted place - in vain. By 1630, no one lived there permanently. 1651 presented the magistrate ( corregidor ) of Gibraleón, Don José de Hermosilla, fixed depopulation. The nearest town Cartaya was suitable then to the area of the abandoned coastal community.

The City Hall of San Miguel stood up 1681st The parish church and the last houses left standing eventually fell victim to the earthquake of 1755. The bells and some pictures from the church seem to have been taken over by the churches of Cartaya and Aljaraque. The ruins of the castle survived until the 19th century. With some of the stones of the little lighthouse was built in 1861. Last remains of the castle were destroyed for the construction of the hotel del Fuerte Rompido. So outlasted no visible trace of the ancient village of San Miguel today.

End of the nineteenth century moved to the lighthouse around some fishermen with their huts; it was the fishing village that in the 1970s lasted until the advent of tourism.

Economy

Tourism

Around 1960 the first visitors appeared at the site; from the 1970s onwards began the tourism appreciable extent. These visitors have integrated themselves into the familiar environment of the place. Later, the city changed its character; inland and toward the east, stretched from the place and became a tourism typical semi-urban settlement, a Urbanización. With the beginning of the 21st century, the town was modernized. Four luxury hotels and several great golf courses emerged.

Fishing

At the small fishing port with a draft of just over a meter only small fishing boats can create. Be Landed especially catches from the trawl fisheries, particularly flatfish and shrimp.

Typical local holidays

On the last weekend in July, the town celebrates the feast in honor of the Virgen del Carmen, the Lady of Mount Carmel. With the image of the saint of fishermen and seafarers drive a procession of boats on the river. They sacrifice her honor flowers they scatter into the water as you, that it provides their livelihood. Numerous tourists on the shore admiring the procession. In the 1980s and 1990s the festival among the youth across the province of Huelva was so popular that up to 3,000 people gathered at the small fishing port. In the years since 2000, the rush has subsided somewhat, and the festival regained some of its traditional, homely character.