Palos de la Frontera
Palos de la Frontera is a town of 11,000 people in Andalucia, Spain. Probably most important for Palos is that Christopher Columbus developed his plans here and started his discovery with support of the people in Palos.Photo: MiguelAngel fotografo, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Photo: CarlosVdeHabsburgo, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Places of Interest
Highlights include Fontanilla and La Rábida Friary.
Fontanilla
The Fontanilla is the former public fountain of Palos de la Frontera in Spain where, according to tradition, these fountains provided the water for the ships of Christopher Columbus's first voyage—the Santa María, the Niña, and the Pinta—when, on 3 August…
La Rábida Friary
Church
Photo: Fernando, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Saint Mary of La Rábida Friary is a Franciscan friary in the southern Spanish town of Palos de la Frontera, in the province of Huelva and the autonomous region of Andalucia. La Rábida Friary is situated 3½ km southwest of Palos de la Frontera.
Iglesia de San Jorge
Church
Photo: MiguelAngel fotografo, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Iglesia de San Jorge is a church.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Huelva.
Huelva
Photo: E. Corvilla, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Huelva is a city of 144,000 people in Andalucia, on the Gulf of Cádiz coast, in the estuary formed by the confluence of the Odiel and Tinto rivers. It draws visitors for its historical sites connected to Christopher Columbus, and for its historic pier, the Muelle de Rio Tinto.
Palos de la Frontera
- Categories: city, municipality of Spain, and locality
- Location: Huelva, Andalusia, Spain, Iberia, Europe
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Latitude
37.2277° or 37° 13′ 40″ northLongitude
-6.8954° or 6° 53′ 43″ westPopulation
5,400Elevation
9 metres (30 feet)United Nations Location Code
ES PFTOpen location code
8C9M64H3+3ROpenStreetMap ID
node 538161751OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Yue Chinese—“Palos de la Frontera” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “بالوس دي لا فرونتيرا”
- Aragonese: “Palos de la Frontera”
- Armenian: “Պալոս դե լա Ֆրոնտերա”
- Asturian: “Palos de la Frontera”
- Basque: “Palos de la Frontera”
- Belarusian: “Палас-дэ-ла-Франтэра”
- Breton: “Palos de la Frontera”
- Catalan: “Palos de la Frontera”
- Catalan: “Palos”
- Catalan: “Port de Palos”
- Catalan: “Puerto de Palos”
- Catalan: “Vila de Palos de la Frontera”
- Catalan: “Vila de Palos”
- Cebuano: “Palos de la Frontera”
- Chechen: “Палос-де-ла-Фронтера”
- Chinese: “Palos de la Frontera”
- Chinese: “巴罗斯港”
- Chinese: “帕洛斯-德拉弗龍特拉”
- Chinese: “帕洛斯-德拉弗龙特拉”
- Chinese: “帕洛斯德拉夫龍特拉”
- Chinese: “帕洛斯德拉夫龙特拉”
- Czech: “Palos de la Frontera”
- Danish: “Palos de la Frontera”
- Dutch: “Palos de la Frontera”
- Egyptian Arabic: “بالوس دى لا فرونتيرا”
- Esperanto: “Palos de la Frontera”
- Finnish: “Palos de la Frontera”
- French: “Palos de la Frontera”
- French: “Palos de Moguer”
- Galician: “Palos de la Frontera”
- Galician: “Vila de Palos”
- Georgian: “პალოს-დე-ლა-ფრონტერა”
- German: “Palos de la Frontera”
- German: “Palos de Moguer”
- Greek: “Πάλος ντε λα Φροντέρα”
- Haitian: “Palos de la Frontera”
- Hebrew: “פלוס דה לה פרונטרה”
- Hungarian: “Palos de la Frontera”
- Interlingua: “Palos de la Frontera”
- Interlingue: “Palos de la Frontera”
- Irish: “Palos de la Frontera”
- Italian: “Palos de la Frontera”
- Italian: “Palos”
- Japanese: “パロス・デ・ラ・フロンテーラ”
- Japanese: “パロス・デ・ラ・フロンテラ”
- Kazakh: “Palos-de-la-Frontera”
- Kazakh: “Палос-де-ла-Фронтера”
- Kazakh: “پالوس-دە-لا-فرونتەرا”
- Korean: “팔로스데라프론테라”
- Ladin: “Palos de la Frontera”
- Lithuanian: “Palos de la Frontera”
- Lombard: “Palos de la Frontera”
- Macedonian: “Палос де ла Фронтера”
- Malay: “Palos de la Frontera”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Palos de la Frontera”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Palos de la Frontera”
- Norwegian: “Palos de la Frontera”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Palos de la Frontera”
- Persian: “پالس دو لا فرونترا”
- Polish: “Palos de la Frontera”
- Polish: “Palos”
- Portuguese: “Palos de la Frontera”
- Portuguese: “Palos”
- Romanian: “Palos de la Frontera”
- Russian: “Палос-де-ла-Фронтера”
- Slovenian: “Palos de la Frontera”
- Slovenian: “Palos”
- South Azerbaijani: “پالس دو لا فرونترا”
- Spanish: “Ciudad de Palos de la Frontera”
- Spanish: “Palos de la Frontera”
- Spanish: “Palos”
- Spanish: “Puerto de Palos de la Frontera”
- Spanish: “Puerto de Palos”
- Spanish: “Villa de Palos”
- Swedish: “Palos de la Frontera”
- Tatar: “Палос-де-ла-Фронтера”
- Turkish: “Palos de la Frontera”
- Ukrainian: “Палос-де-ла-Фронтера”
- Urdu: “پالوس دے لا فرونتیرا”
- Uzbek: “Palos de la Frontera”
- Uzbek: “Palos-de-la-Frontera”
- Uzbek: “Палос де ла Фронтера”
- Uzbek: “Палос-де-ла-Фронтера”
- Venetian: “Palos de la Frontera”
- Vietnamese: “Palos de la Frontera”
- Waray (Philippines): “Palos de la Frontera”
- Wu Chinese: “边条城”
- Yue Chinese: “帕洛斯德拉夫龍特拉”
- “Palos de la Frontera”
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