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La Antilla, “the place of happy hours”, this beach in the Huelva municipality of Lepe, located about seven kilometres from the town, always offers us paradisiacal scenes, typical of the beaches on the coast of the province of Huelva. We advance along the sand towards the west, a beautiful fine, golden sand caressed by a calm Atlantic. On our route we observe the urban centre of this tourist enclave in Lepe, very colourful, where chalets coexist with plots on the first lines of the beach, tall buildings with flats and apartments and housing estates of different types. A main road, Avenida Castilla, parallel to the beach line, forms the backbone of the urban complex. The centre of La Antilla began to take off with the tourist boom that took place in the 1960s. It continued to evolve until it became what we see in the images. At the end of this tourist centre, on the route towards the west, we can see the silhouette of the Barriada de El Carmen, also known as the Barriada de Pescadores. We take a similar route to the east. The end of the town in this direction gives way to the beginning of the coastal arrow called Flecha del Rompido or Nueva Umbría, with its long, unspoiled beach of the same name. We enjoy the clear, fine sand, which forms mobile dunes of unparalleled beauty. On a new route to the west, with low planes, we see chalets on the first lines of the beach. As an anecdotal and historical fact, in the background of the images, at the top, you can see the Torre del Catalán, a beacon tower built between the end of the 16th century and the beginning of the 17th century within the defensive plan designed by Philip II to protect the coast from attacks by pirates and corsairs. We end our walk through this beautiful paradise with the swaying of the ocean waves, dressed in their silver suits, velvet waves that brush the fine, golden sands. Note: Images, videos, music or texts may have been provided by friends and collaborators of the channel but always without profit motive.