Camping Playa de Mazagón

Mazagón (five minutes’ drive) is a quiet, low-key Costa de la Luz resort with a pretty yachting harbour to potter around, lots of family-friendly tapas bars to investigate and restaurants serving fresh local seafood. The town’s real USPs, however, are the long sandy beaches, stretching from Playa de Mazagón (also five minutes) east to Playa de Cuesta Maneli (15 minutes). For sightseeing days among untamed nature, make for Doñana National Park (10 minutes) to hike or cycle among ever-shifting dunes and pine groves. Be sure to take binoculars too, as you're likely to spot bright-pink flamingos among the coastal marshlands. In summer, explore deep into the park on boat trips up the Ría de Huelva (20 minutes). Make time for a stop at the typically Andalusian white village of El Rocío (35 minutes) to admire the ornate Santuario Nuestra Señora del Rocío pilgrimage church. Head for Huelva (25 minutes) to wander around the Barrio Reina Victoria, a photogenic mix of Arabic and English architecture, follow the madcap sculpture trail in Zafra Park, and wind up your day with coffee in one of Paseo de Santa Fe’s alfresco cafés.