MOGUER

Located 80 kms. From Seville Moguer is a little town with neolithic origins as well as a past relationship with Phoenicians, Romans and Moors. Among the tourist interest buildings you can see the Santa Clara Monastery ( travel.webshots... ) definitely worth a vist the Nuestra Señora de Granada church and the City Hall, which is quite enchanting with its moorish style arches. But the pride and joy of the Moguereños is that their town is the birth place of the 1956 Literature Nobel Prize winner, Juan Ramón Jiménez whom they remember as a universal poet. He is well remembered in the town with museums and a statute
By the other hand, Moguer has a special interest to those interested in Columbus voyage to America. In fact, one of the caravels La Niña was built in the local ( travel.webshots... )port and also many of the friars who participated in Christian missions to America came from the local San Francisco Convent, for example Fran Antonio de Olivares, the founder of the city of San Antonio in Texas. Among others celebrities born in this town we can name:
THE SAILORS who participated in the discovery journey of America: Luis Torres, Juan de Jerez, Juan de Moguer, Francisco Garcia Vallejos, Juan Quintero, Juan Vecano, Juan Arraez, Alonso Morales, Master Alonso, Bartholomew Roldan, Diego Leal and others.
CRISTOBAL GARCIA DEL CASTILLO, founder of the city of Telde on the Gran Canaria island.

ALONSO VELEZ MENDOZA, Commander of the Santiago-Order and explorer of the Brazilian coast.

DIEGO GARCIA OF MOGUER, Explored the South American coast to the River Plate and discovered the Chagos Archipelago and the Diego Garcia island .

JUAN LADRILLERO, Co-discoverer of the Magellan Strait.
BARTOLOME RUIZ, One of the Thirteen of Fame who accompanied Pizarro in the discovery of Peru.

FRAY ANDRES DE MOGUER, Dominican religious, first chronicler of the Santo Domingo monks works in the Vice Royalty of New Spain

FELIPE GODINEZ MANRIQUE, Writer of the Spanish Golden Age that he composed plays that are represented in both sites of the Spanish Empire: The Court and the Americas. Cervantes highlight his work as a cleverness flowery
LUIS HERNANDEZ-PINZON ALVAREZ Admiral of the Spanish navy at the time of Elizabeth II, he commander the Pacific war against Peru for the control of guano.
ILDEFONSO JOAQUIN INFANTE AND MACÍAS Bishop of Tenerife between the years 1877 and 1886.
THE PARRALA (DOLORES PARRALES), Singer born in Moguer and Lorca 's inspirational source of his famous work "Poema del cante Jondo"
MANUEL GOMEZ CONTIOSO, Salesian religious beatified by Pope Benedict XVI on October 28, 2007.
RAFAEL ROMERO AND BARROS Spanish painter who counted among his disciples his son Julio Romero de Torres.

MANUEL DE BURGOS AND MAZO A prominent politician who led the Conservative Party Restoration in the province of Huelva and former Minister of Grace and Justice and government in 1917 and 1919 respectively.
XANDRO VALERIO (Alejandro Rodriguez Gomez) Poet moguereño especially distinguished as librettist of ballads like "The Parrala" and "Tattoo", among others.
EULALIA RUIZ DE CLAVIJO First attorney woman in the Spanish Courts.
FRANCISCO GARFIAS LOPEZ National Poetry Prize in 1971 with its poemario "Duda". It is also recognized as a researcher and editor of the work of Juan Ramón Jiménez.