{"id":1018,"date":"2010-06-18T13:50:59","date_gmt":"2010-06-18T13:50:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mapamundo.co.uk\/blog\/?p=1018"},"modified":"2013-05-22T15:01:21","modified_gmt":"2013-05-22T15:01:21","slug":"punta-umbria-spain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mapamundo.co.uk\/blog\/2010\/06\/18\/punta-umbria-spain\/","title":{"rendered":"Punta Umbria Spain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Now one of the Costa de la Luz\u2019s main seaside resorts, <a title=\"INFORMATION ON THE SPANISH TOWN LOCATED ON THE COSTA DE LA LUZ ANDALUCIA\" href=\"http:\/\/www.needahandspanishproperties.com\/punta-umbria.html\" target=\"_blank\">Punta Umbria<\/a> was originally established by the famous Rio Tinto Company (a British mining company), as a place of rest for its employees and managers. The Rio Tinto company built some colonial beach side houses there rather than the sanatorium for which they had building permission. Punta Umbria lies close to the ancient port of <a title=\"INFORMATION ON THE SPANISH TOWN OF HUELVA LOCATED ON THE COSTA DE LA LUZ\" href=\"http:\/\/www.needahandspanishproperties.com\/huelva.html\" target=\"_blank\">Huelva<\/a> amidst marshy wetlands which are now a protected wildlife resort with some varied bird species. For holidaymakers the main attraction is the beaches, there are some excellent ones in the area, the closest to the town being Playa de la Mata Negra, another attraction is the wonderful conditions for water sports, especially windsurfing, as the <a title=\"GET INFORMATION ABOUT THE SPANISH COASTAL REGION IN ANDALUCIA FIND A MAP WEATHER AND AIRPORT TRANSFERS\" href=\"http:\/\/www.needahandspanishproperties.com\/costa-de-la-luz.html\" target=\"_blank\">Costa de la Luz<\/a> coastline \u00a0is battered by winds from the Atlantic Ocean. If you are visiting, don\u2019t forget a trip into nearby <a title=\"FIND THE LOCATION OF THE SPANISH CITY OF HUELVA WITH THIS HANDY MAP\" href=\"http:\/\/www.needahandspanishproperties.com\/huelva-map.html\">Huelva<\/a>, an ancient port which was formerly settled by Phoenicians, Romans and Moors, from Palos de Frontera, Christopher Columbus sailed on some of his voyages. Punta Umbria can be reached from Laguna del Portil or from Huelva itself. <a title=\"FIND THE LOCATION OF THE SPANISH TOWN ON THE COSTA DE LA LUZ ANDALUCIA\" href=\"http:\/\/www.needahandspanishproperties.com\/punta-umbria-map.html\" target=\"_blank\">Punta Umbria Map<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Now one of the Costa de la Luz\u2019s main seaside resorts, Punta Umbria was originally established by the famous Rio Tinto Company (a British mining company), as a place of rest for its employees and managers. The Rio Tinto company built some colonial beach side houses there rather than the sanatorium for which they had [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[18,7],"tags":[53,220,298,606,605],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mapamundo.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1018"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mapamundo.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mapamundo.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mapamundo.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mapamundo.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1018"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/mapamundo.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1018\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2186,"href":"http:\/\/mapamundo.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1018\/revisions\/2186"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mapamundo.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1018"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mapamundo.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1018"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mapamundo.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1018"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}