Christopher Columbus arrived at this monastery in the year 1484. There he met Fray Antonio de Marchena and Fray Antonio de Marchena and Fray Juan Pérez. The latter was Queen Isabel the Catholic's confessor from whom he would end in discovery of America. He finalised the details of expedition in its rooms with Martín Alonso Pinzón and other expert navigators from the nearby Palos port, in whose San Jose Church was read the document which ordered the contracting of the crews and from where the ship and carvels crossed the Atlantic.

The Columbine Places

The historic destination of Huelva acquires a universal dimension in the Rábida with the Discovery of the New World. The place, a meeting point of cultures (Tarteswsic, Phoenician, Roman and Arabic), seems predestined to be the cradle of the biggest enterprise of all time. In the gothic-mudejar styled Rábida Monastery, the Virgin of Miracles is venerated. A beautiful image in alabaster from the XIVc is conserved. Of the same style and date is the church, presided over by valuable statue of Crucified Christ, which perhaps is one of the oldest in Andalusia (XIVc). The beautiful enclosure is from the XVc and is also mudejar. The portal, with frescos painted in 1930 by Daniel Vásquez Díaz, is one of the most valuable examples of modern painting.

The Caravel Dock: replicas of the discovery boats equipped and moored in a dock supplied with elements related to sailing and in a medieval atmosphere.

The Iberamerican Forum of Rábida: a multifunctional building designed for public acts of a cultural nature and congressional activiites: an open-air auditorium for 4,000 people and rooms for congresses from 20 to 419 places.

José Celestino Mutis Botanic Park. It gathers samples of Iberoamerican and Indigenous fauna.

Palos de la Frontera. Cradle of the Discovery of America, it is a very prosperous town today, which has changed its seafaring way of liofe from the time of the discovery to one which is eminently agricultural (Palos Strawberries). Among the monuments of interest ar St. George's church, mudéjar cover. St Clare's consent can be found in Moguer, XIVc, also very linked to the work of the Discovery. Its Foundation is due to D. Alonso Jofre around the year 1338 and it is the most importnaa gothic mudéjar work in Huelva.