The Environment | Almonte

Almonte is a municipality located in the county of Huelva, 55 kilometres from the capital.
Main productive activity: Cereals, vineyards and olive groves
Almonte, best known as well for holding "El Rocío", is situated in a unique environment, the edge of Coto Donana.
Almonte now lives quietly throughout the year devoted to agriculture, vineyards and tourism Matalascañas, until it reaches the pilgrimage del Rocío by Pentecost.

The first settlements date from the Bronze Age. It is probable that the current village is situated on top of another of Roman origin.

Tartessians, Phoenicians, Greeks and Romans populated these lands.

The Christian conquest was carried out in the XIII century by Ruiz Gonzalez.

In the XV century, the Duke of Medina Sidonia and Count of Niebla bought it. It belonged to the county of Niebla until the Parliament (Cortes de Cádiz) ended this situation by abolishing the landed estates.

Village in the region of Condado on lands of extraordinary agricultural wealth and to which the majority of the Doñana National Park and the Entorno de Doñana Natural Park belongs.