Ayamonte with its attractive tiled plazas, reminiscent of neighbouring Portugal, lined with trees, restaurants and bars. It has more foreign tourists than other resorts along the Costa de la Luz in Huelva Province, partly due to Ayamontes proximity to the Algarve and its position as the western most resort along the Andalusian coast.
Situated on the estuary of the Río Guadiana, the second longest river in Europe, Ayamonte development has been inextricably linked to its position on the border with Portugal. Until the 1990s, Ayamonte occupied a prime position for crossing the Spanish-Portuguese border, with its frequent ferries across the river to Vila Real de San Antonio in Portugal.
In 1991 an impressive new suspension bridge was opened two kilometres north of Ayamonte that took away the town's cross-border traffic on what is now a motorway linking the Algarve with Huelva city and Seville. The journey from Ayamonte to Faro on the Algarve now takes a mere 45 minutes. Ferries still go to Vila Real in Portugal from the Muelle de Portugal in the centre of Ayamonte just in front of one of the offices of HOMES & FINCAS, Ayamente. From Vila Real there are frequent buses to the Algarve.
The centre of Ayamonte is a good place to take a leisurely stroll, as many of its narrow streets are pedestrians. These link small, pretty plazas, which are tucked away but full of busy pavement cafés and bars serving great seafood characteristic of the Huelva Costa de la Luz. Visit the elegant Plaza de la Laguna, for a good choice of eating places with outdoor seating. In the old town is the fifteenth-century Iglesia de San Salvador.
In Ayamonte there is protected areas and wildlife. The Marismas del Guadiana, the marshes of the Guadiana estuary, which are rich in bird life, including herons, storks and flamingos.
The nearest beach is the new resort of Isla Canela, five minutes' drive away from the centre of Ayamonte. Isla Canela boasts a particularly wide stretch of sandy beach, with chiringuitos (summer beach bars), parasols and hammocks for hire and showers and beach properties for sale. It is a fast-growing resort with nice beach property for sale and many new holiday apartment properties, as well as a big hotel, the Ríu Canela, and the Isla Canela golf course with property for sale. However, it also has extensive sand dunes and marshes home to abundant wildlife. The new quarter of Ayamonte, Costa Esuri is built as a complete village with all the infra structures of an Andalusian village. The biggest new development with property for sale in Spain, that's what the Spanish are saying about Costa Esuri. Luxury residential properties for sale and 2 golf courses are the new centre of Costa Esuri surrounded by properties for sale. Located on the banks of the Guadiana with spectacular views to the Portuguese Algarve.
Nuevo Portil, Islantilla and El Rompido are also holiday resorts with property for sale close by. Nuevo Portil, El Rompido and Islantilla have excellent golf courses and 1 st class golf properties. Spain's golfers are buyers of the golf properties in Islantilla and foreign property investors are concentrating on Nuevo Portil. |