With a total of 41, Spain is one of the biggest contributors to the 890 World Heritage sites: I have already the majority of the spanish sites on my personnal acount and in March this year added one more: The Doñana National Park, in Andalucia, which out of curiosity is the Spanish site most near to Portugal. The Park is on the right bank of the lower part of the Guadalquivir river and also borders the sea for a lot of kilometers. A notable variety of biotopes is available: lagoons, marshlands, dunes, both fixed and mobile, scrub woodland and maquis, plus lots of birds, namely herons. Visitors only can go inside in guided tours and are taken in busses which can afford to be driven on sand and climb dunes.
Just bordering the Park fences lies the very typical village of El Rocio, famed for the spectacular Pilgrimage of the same name, with many pilgrims riding horses from far way and families travelling on covered wagons pulled by horses as well. It is said that about one million people do this annual religious exercise. The rest of the year, like when I went there, the place is much quiet, but visitors and pilgrims are not missing anyway.
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