Valverde Del Camino is a Spanish town in the Huelva province in the region of Andalusia. It is located between the rivers Tinto and Odiel, in the Andévalo. The municipality of Valverde del Camino belongs to the Landscape Region of the Andévalo. During the early Bronze Age, around five thousand years ago there is already a presence of human activity here in relation to local mining.
Valverde del Camino is located on a crossroad, being a place of must pass thanks to its location on the side of the sierras of Rite and Leon, the current location of the town is given thanks to the construction of a farmhouse or an inn called Facanías, which seems to be of Arab or Hebrew origens. At the end of the XV century Facanías is transformed in Valverde del Camino, making note most likely to the Roman Path that passed next to the population.
The muslins built in its territory a series of fortified "watchtowers" with the objective to protect the small farmsteads and the roads to Niebla, head of the Taifa Kingdom, but it is conquered by the King Alfonso X the Wise in 1.262. in 1732 the town gain independence from Niebla and get the title of Ville from the King Felipe V and with the approval of Niebla and the owner of the county the duke of Medina Sidonia.
One of its principal monuments is the church of Our Lady of El Reposo from the XVI century of renaissance style and with baroque addition, added in the XVIII century, the author of the Baroque extension was the architect Tomaso Botani, this was due to the damages from the Lisbon earthquake, the main altar is made of plasterwork (1640-1650) and it is the work of Pablo Legot.
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