Madrid, September, 2011

La Castilla del Oro Foundation, disembarks with a new project in Spain, more precisely in Huelva (Cerro del Andevalo). For this reason we invite you to get to know the history, customs and life in general, of this place in the old Europe, in which La Castilla del Oro Foundation assumes a new challenge. It will develop, what its promoter calls, engineer Richard Fifer – Carles; Social Responsibility of Second Generation.

NOBILIARY TIES

Free from the nobiliary and stately ties, typical of the Middle Ages, Calañas had entered firmly into Modern Ages, in a prolific period of the construction of symbolic religious monuments and civil buildings.

In this context of relative superior prosperity, in which a lot of hardships and dependence of the Medieval times had been left behind, it is commonly accepted that aproximately in the last years of the XVIII century, Calañas finally obtained the title of Charter of the town.

In the XIX century, in the entire context of the industrial revolution in Huelva, linked to the extraction activities and to the railroad development, Calañas witnessed how mining re-activated in its territory, process that was shared with the rest of the region of El Andévalo and the region of  Cuenca Minera de Huelva.

The subsoil of Calañas was evidenced specially rich in copper and sulphur, resources that increased in interest as the railroad developed.

From the development of the mines, the increase of population was deriving quickly, which derived in that Calañas, together with its dependant villages of Sotiel Coronada, La Zarza and El Perrunal occurred in the second half of the century from scarcely 2.000 residents to 8.307 inthe census of 1900 and to 12.707 in 1910.

Once again and after many centuries of inactivity or residual activities, the mine was turning into the development engine of Calañas and for many populations in its surrounding.

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