Palos de la Frontera and the Discoverers

 Huelva is an important Port in SW Spain. Just outside the city close to rivers  is Palos de la Frontera. Here are important monuments to the discoverers and to Ibero Americano links. 

Today we can look back with two different views, the building of empire bringing riches to the King of Spain, or the murder, rape and pillage of peaceful Aztec and other cultures, followed by slavery as over 3 million Africans were taken to build the Spanish Empire in the Americas.

Today Palos de la Frontera is a peaceful place to rest awhile away from the city, but the University and Botanical Gardens were closed. It is both summer and covid times.

Not for the first time this Google based blog is not allowing me proper control of placing photos, so they are not in the order I want them. Seems Google too busy censoring Truthers these days?

However this is a wonderful ceramic Aztec calendar. The Aztecs predicted 2012 as the end of the world (as we know it). It seems 2020 is actually that year.

Everywhere we travel  we are disgusted by the rubbish people leave. Sometimes Anita takes a bag and gloves to clear it from the place we may want to spend a few hours at.

Time for yoga too.

Being in Spain now they make people wear masks even alone in nature makes being there not so pleasant. We don't want to damage our immune systems, so choose places where we can life a healthy life, just occasionally popping into this parallel existence for shopping etc. in masks.

We did enjoy Palos de la Frontera and when we were there this national restriction was not in place.