Moguer

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Moguer municipality
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Moguer (Spain)
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Basic data
Autonomous Community : Andalusia
Province : Huelva
Comarca : Comarca Metropolitana de Huelva
Coordinates 37 ° 16 ′  N , 6 ° 50 ′  W Coordinates: 37 ° 16 ′  N , 6 ° 50 ′  W
Height : 51  msnm
Area : 204 km²
Residents : 22,088 (Jan. 1, 2019)
Population density : 108.27 inh / km²
Postal code : 21800
Municipality number  ( INE ): 21050
administration
Mayor : Juan Jose Volante Padilla (PP)
Website : www.aytomoguer.es
Location of the municipality
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Parish Church of Nuestra Señora de la Granada

Moguer is a Spanish city ​​in the province of Huelva in the autonomous region of Andalusia. On January 1, 2019, 22,088 residents lived there. The urban area has an area of ​​204 km² and a population density of 108 inhabitants / km². The place is 51 m above sea level and 19 kilometers from the provincial capital Huelva and 80 km from Seville.

Moguer is the birthplace of the Nobel Prize winner Juan Ramón Jiménez .

history

The Arab Mogauar or Moquer was conquered by the Santiagoorden around 1240 and initially placed under its jurisdiction. Later the place was dependent on Niebla .

In the 14th century it developed into a small town. The castle from the Almohad period was expanded and the Santa Clara monastery was built. At the end of the 15th century, the “La Niña” caravel was launched here and some of the city's residents took part in Columbus ' voyages of discovery.

In 1642 Moguer received city ​​rights from Philip IV .

Most of the houses were destroyed in the Lisbon earthquake in 1755. Only parts of the castle and the Santa Clara monastery remained.

In the 19th century Moguer lost the competition for the title of provincial capital.

The poet Juan Ramón Jiménez , who received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1956 , was born here on December 24, 1881 . His best known work is " Platero and I ".

In the 20th century, viticulture suffered an economic decline due to a phylloxera plague. Only in the 1970s did the economic situation stabilize again after strawberry plantations were established. Today the city is the main producer of strawberries in Spain.

In 1993 Pope John Paul II also visited the city of Moguer as part of his trip to Spain.

Moguer / View 1

Attractions

  • Convento de Santa Clara: the monastery was founded in 1337.
  • Parish Church of Nuestra Señora de la Granada: from the 18th century It was built after the Lisbon earthquake in place of its predecessor - a Mudejar- style church from the 14th century.
  • Town hall from the second half of the 18th century.
  • Convento de San Francisco: the convent was started at the end of the 15th century and completed around 1570. Retable from the 18th century.
  • Castle: built by the Almohads and restored and expanded in the 14th century.
  • Juan Ramón Jiménez's birthplace .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Cifras oficiales de población resultantes de la revisión del Padrón municipal a 1 de enero . Population statistics from the Instituto Nacional de Estadística (population update).

Web links

Commons : Moguer  - collection of images, videos and audio files
  • Moguer - Statistical data of the regional government of Andalusia (Spanish)