University of Huelva_Spring 2015
Huelva
Author: Petra Schablas
Huelva is a city in southwestern Spain, the capital of the Province of Huelva in the autonomous region of Andalusia, and is situated close to the boarder of Portugal. It has a population of 150.000 and a climate whitch is characterized by very mild and wet winters and long warm to hot and dry summers. When we arrived it was still pretty cold- not so much in the outside but very cold in the flats. There are no heating systems in flats in this region of Spain so we had to heat with small radiators which costs a lot of electricity.
Huelva is not very famous for tourists but there are still some nice places. The beach Punta Umbria is around 25 minutes per bus. It is nice that it´s not that far away but during the summer it is still kind of annoying that you always have to use the very crowded bus. The bus is the only way to go to the beach by public transport, costs 1,55€ and goes every hour. But this "effort" is worth taking it because how often in your lifetime do you have the chance to go every weekend to the beach.
The university has approximately 10.000 students including 200 Erasmus students every semester. There are three buldings- Technical Studies are located in La Rabida, outside of Huelva, Economic Studies are located in La Merced in the old city center of Huelva and most of the other studies are located in the main campus named El Carmen. I have all my courses in El Carmen.