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The castle of Alan\u00eds, built after the Castilian conquest in the 13th century, was key to the border defence against Portugal during the 14th and 15th centuries, thanks to its strategic position. In the 15th century it played a prominent role in the struggles between the duchies of Arcos and Medina-Sidonia. Although it lost its military function in the 16th century, it was briefly reused during the War of Independence and is now owned by Alan\u00eds Town Council.<\/p>","comments":"

Alan\u00eds Castle was built between the 14th and 15th centuries, when the conflicts that arose with the neighbouring kingdom of Portugal forced the Council of Seville to reinforce the northern border of its district by building numerous fortifications along the so-called \u2018Banda Gallega\u2019, a defensive belt that constituted the northern border of the Kingdom of Seville during these centuries.<\/p>

The purpose of these enclaves was to safeguard the roads, protect the new settlers and consolidate the Crown of Castile in an area claimed by the Portuguese kingdom.<\/p>

In this context, the importance of Alan\u00eds, in relation to the other fortresses, lies in its strategic position and visual control of the territory, which allowed it to control a large part of the sierra.<\/p>

During the 15th century it played an important role in the noble struggles between the houses of Arcos and Medina-Sidonia, being occupied alternately by these dukedoms. Possibly as a result of the damage caused by these conflicts, reforms and new constructions were carried out that gave the building the formal characteristics with which we know it today.<\/p>

From the next century onwards, having lost its military function, it entered an inexorable period of deterioration, falling into a state of ruin at the end of the 18th century.\u00a0<\/p>

However, the fortress was the scene of a final episode of war, since at the beginning of the 19th century, during the War of Independence, it was rebuilt by the French, who established a garrison there.<\/p>

The castle was the property of the Seville Town Council until it was ceded to the Town Council of Alan\u00eds at the end of the 20th century, the institution that owns it today.<\/p>

The defensive complex consists of a small, irregular hexagonal-shaped enclosure that occupies an area of 2,200 m2. The only gateway to the inside of the enclosure is located in the centre of the north wall, facing the village. Its outer arch, now very deteriorated, would have been formed by a carved sandstone doorway with a semicircular arch. It still preserves the quiciarelas and open boxes in the wall for the bar that would have held the large wooden door closed.\u00a0<\/p>

At the top of the doorway was a machicolation supported by four double-lobed corbels, which is another defensive element.\u00a0<\/p>

A barrel-vaulted corridor leads to the parade ground from where we can see the inner doorway, a Mudejar brickwork consisting of a pointed arch framed by an alfiz.\u00a0<\/p>

The sturdy walls that make up the fortress were built using masonry and carved ashlars at the corners, which made the construction more solid.<\/p>

On the north wall, centred on the north wall and the gateway to the castle, is the double staircase that provides access to the patrol path. This path completely encircled the enclosure, thus allowing the control of all its flanks.\u00a0<\/p>

Standing outwards, on the corner formed by the north and northwest walls, is the only keep. It is built on a semicircular massif that rises in a gentle slope to the height of the promenade, taking on an irregular nonagonal shape from this point onwards. Access to the tower is through a doorway located at the level of the promenade that leads to a rectangular chamber covered by a vaulted ceiling on trumpets.\u00a0<\/p>

Attached to the west wall and on the same side as the doorway is the staircase, covered by a barrel vault, which leads to the last part of the tower: the roof or terrace. This section, nowadays very deteriorated, would have been crowned by a continuous balcony.<\/p>

In the parade ground, also with a hexagonal floor plan, there were a series of rooms attached to the walls that were used to organise the life of the castle's inhabitants. Inside one of them was a bread oven that served to supply the garrison housed there, while other buildings were used as dwellings, storerooms, kitchens and stables.\u00a0<\/p>

A paved path surrounded these buildings, thus facilitating the internal circulation of carts and animals, leaving an unpaved area in the centre where the rock was found.<\/p>


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DAZA PASTRANA, F. Intervenci\u00f3n arqueol\u00f3gica puntual. Seguimiento arqueol\u00f3gico de demoliciones y control de movimientos de tierras en el Castillo de Alan\u00eds de la Sierra (Sevilla). Anuario Arqueol\u00f3gico de Andaluc\u00eda<\/em>. 2010.<\/p>

RODR\u00cdGUEZ ACHUTEGUI, C. N., LATORRE ENSELLEM, A. M. y FERN\u00c1NDEZ NAVAS, P. Excavaciones arqueol\u00f3gicas en el Castillo de Alan\u00eds de la Sierra (Sevilla). Campa\u00f1a de 1988. Anuario Arqueol\u00f3gico de Andaluc\u00eda<\/em>. 1988.<\/p>

RODR\u00cdGUEZ ACHUTEGUI, C. N. y POZO BL\u00c1ZQUEZ, F. Excavaciones arqueol\u00f3gicas en el Castillo de Alan\u00eds de la Sierra. Anuario Arqueol\u00f3gico de Andaluc\u00eda<\/em>. 1987.<\/p>


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The municipality of Alan\u00eds, located in the foothills of the Sierra Morena mountain range in Seville, has been known since ancient times for its profound religiousness. Proof of this is the large number of hermitages scattered around the town. These hermitages, the fruit of popular fervour, were erected thanks to funding and the pious donations of the faithful, playing an important role in the articulation of a rugged territory with scattered populations.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>

In 1699, the Libro de Visitas Pastorales (Book of Pastoral Visits) mentions five chapels scattered around the town of Alan\u00eds: Nuestra Se\u00f1ora de las Angustias, Vera Cruz, La Caridad y la Encarnaci\u00f3n and San Juan Bautista, while in the following century these visits included those of Jes\u00fas Nazareno and the Hospitales de la Caridad y la Sangre, which shows the large number of chapels that existed during the modern period, in response to both the great devotion and the growing population.<\/p>

In the 19th century, different historical events had a negative effect on these hermitages, either through the loss of their heritage due to the confiscations or the loss of popular devotion due to the secularising ideas of the time. As a result, many of them were left in a ruinous state. However, in the following century, repair work was undertaken that made it possible to rebuild these churches, as was the case with the church of San Juan in 1907.<\/p>

Located halfway up the slope of the hill on which the castle stands, San Juan has traditionally been considered the first parish church in the town, as it served as a place of worship when the population was concentrated around the castle hill. It is accessed by a path that, from the church of Santa M\u00aa de las Nieves and along Calle Jes\u00fas, climbs gently up to this unique enclave built in the shade and shelter of the castle.<\/p>

Its date of construction has been established as the first half of the 14th century, due to its Gothic architectural characteristics, although an inscription inside it, which has now unfortunately disappeared, dates it to the 15th century. It mentions the twenty-fourth knight of Seville, Don Crist\u00f3bal de Mosquera, as the founder of the church.\u00a0<\/p>

On the outside, the building is sober, with a rectangular floor plan and a singular semicircular apse that is more typical of the Romanesque style than the Gothic.\u00a0<\/p>

It is accessed through two Mudejar-style doorways. The doors open through pointed stone arches, which are backed by others decorated with diamonds or nail heads and framed by an alfiz framed by columns, the doorways are similar in style to those that give access to the parish church. Over the door of the main fa\u00e7ade, a porthole was opened to illuminate the interior, topped by a small belfry with a bell.\u00a0<\/p>

Inside, the building has a single rectangular nave topped by a semicircular apse and divided into four bays by pointed brick arches - a model widely used in the medieval architecture of the Sierras of C\u00f3rdoba, Seville and Huelva.\u00a0<\/p>

According to a letter from the parish priest in charge of the hermitage dated 1853, there were sculptures of Saint John the Baptist, Saint John the Evangelist, Saint Anthony the Abbot, Saint Anne and Saint Bridget on some of the supports, and there is also news of the existence of mural paintings with the theme of the baptism of Christ by Saint John.\u00a0<\/p>

Despite the work carried out at the beginning of the century, by the end of the 20th century the roof of the church had collapsed and its walls had been damaged by the elements. Various refurbishment works have managed to save this monument, which is now used for civilian purposes.\u00a0<\/p>","visitableComments":"


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ANGULO \u00cd\u00d1IGUEZ, D. Arquitectura mud\u00e9jar sevillana de los siglos XIII, XIV y XV. Bolet\u00edn de la Sociedad Espa\u00f1ola de Excursiones<\/em>. 1932.<\/p>

HERN\u00c1NDEZ GONZ\u00c1LEZ, S. Las ermitas de Alan\u00eds. Revista de Alan\u00eds<\/em>. 1997.<\/p>

P\u00c9REZ, A. Ermitas, monasterios y conventos de Alan\u00eds. Difundiendo Alan\u00eds<\/em>. 2018.<\/p>

VVAA. El g\u00f3tico-mud\u00e9jar por la provincia de Sevilla. 2015.<\/p>


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The castle of Almad\u00e9n de la Plata, built in the 14th century on the site of a Roman fort from the 1st century AD, had defensive functions on the Silver Route and against Portugal as part of the Galician Band. Although much of it was lost in the 18th and 20th centuries, in 1997 it was partially rebuilt to house the current Town Hall. Nearby, the Clock Tower, erected in 1905 on the site of the old Hospital de los Angeles, still marks the hours in the Plaza del Reloj.<\/p>","comments":"

Within the urban area of Almad\u00e9n de la Plata, two distinctive buildings stand out, bearing witness to the antiquity and history of this municipality: the castle and the so-called \u201cClock Tower.\u201d<\/p>

The Almad\u00e9n castle dates back to the 14th century, and its construction served a threefold purpose: to protect the Silver Route, one of the region\u2019s main communication routes, to ensure the peace and security of the populations settled there, and to defend the Castilian border against the Portuguese threat.<\/p>

After the Castilian conquest of the Sierra Morena in Seville by King Ferdinand III \"The Saint\" in the mid-13th century, the territory of Almad\u00e9n de la Plata was ceded, along with other municipalities, to the Council of Seville. This institution took on the responsibility of maintaining the stability of the territory, whose repopulation was crucial for the consolidation of Castilian power.<\/p>

As a result, a series of castles were built, including that of Almad\u00e9n de la Plata, whose aim was to ensure the free movement of people, livestock, and goods along the mountain paths, as well as supply the city of Seville, while organising the dispersed settlement of the territory under the protection of a fortress.<\/p>

This fortification was also part of the defensive network known as the Galician or Portuguese Band, created in response to the attacks from Portugal that, during the 14th and 15th centuries, kept the border between the two kingdoms in a state of constant tension. This band extended across the northwestern part of the lands of the Kingdom of Seville, covering parts of the current provinces of Seville, Huelva, and Badajoz. Given its position along the Silver Route, the castle of Almad\u00e9n de la Plata would have been part of the fortified sites protecting the roads from the Portuguese threat.<\/p>

It was precisely the need to protect this route that determined the location of the castle. Unlike most fortresses, which were built at the highest point of their surroundings, Almad\u00e9n de la Plata is situated in a valley, at the foot of two elevations: the hill of Los Covachos and the hill of El Calvario.<\/p>

The castle was a military enclosure, of small size and a quadrangular layout, covering an approximate area of 2,000 m\u00b2. Over time, new buildings were constructed on its grounds, eventually absorbing and concealing its walls, so today only part of it remains visible.<\/p>

The best-preserved architectural elements are found on the northern wall. These include a square tower built with small masonry stones, which houses the stepped entrance to the old fortress, and its original door, constructed with a pointed brick arch.<\/p>

It is unclear exactly when the castle ceased its military function, but by the late 15th century, and especially during the following century, with the pacification of the territory, these structures lost their defensive role. The loss of their original purpose led to a period of abandonment and deterioration, which often resulted in ruin.<\/p>

In the case of the castle of Almad\u00e9n de la Plata, historical sources tell us that by the late 18th century, it was in a marked state of disrepair, with its \"foundations\" still visible. It was during this century that the standing remains of the northern section were used for the construction of a municipal granary for storing grain.<\/p>

To adapt the old fortress into a granary, an arcade was built facing the wall, allowing for the creation of a raised structure whose purpose was to preserve the grain by isolating it from moisture. The building continued to serve as a warehouse until the late 20th century, with the last renovations dated to 1960.<\/p>

In 1997, the former granary was rehabilitated to become the Town Hall, allowing the preserved remains of the castle to be recovered, showcasing the original masonry and restoring the most distinctive elements of the 18th-century granary, such as the arcade.<\/p>

A few metres from the castle is the Plaza del Reloj, where another of Almad\u00e9n de la Plata's most iconic buildings can be found: the \"Clock Tower.\" The building housing the tower was originally the old Hospital of Los \u00c1ngeles, which dates back to the 15th century and later became a chapel in the 17th century. In contemporary times, it served as the Town Hall until it was moved to the old castle and granary.<\/p>

The tower, with a square plan and a height of 27 metres, was erected in 1905 on the fa\u00e7ade of the former hospital and chapel. This brick construction has several levels, accessed by a staircase inside. On the ground floor is the door for entry, above which still remains the old tile indicating that the Town Hall was located there. A second level leads to a balcony from which the square can be seen. At the uppermost section is the famous clock, which faces two sides and still marks the hours today. Finally, the tower is crowned with a small rooftop with a parapet, upon which the bell tower stands.<\/p>

This building is one of the most recognisable in the town: its slender profile, the original Neo-Mudejar style, and its characteristic colours\u2014red on the walls and white on the details\u2014make it stand out from the other buildings in the area as a symbol of Almad\u00e9n de la Plata.<\/p>","visitableComments":"


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VARGAS DUR\u00c1N, M. A. Intervenci\u00f3n en el p\u00f3sito del trigo de Almad\u00e9n de la Plata (Sevilla). Anuario Arqueol\u00f3gico de Andaluc\u00eda<\/em>. 1989.<\/p>

VVAA. Castillo (Almad\u00e9n de la Plata). Ficha T\u00e9cnica Junta de Andaluc\u00eda.<\/em><\/p>


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In the heart of the historic centre of Almad\u00e9n de la Plata is the parish church of Santa Mar\u00eda de Gracia, very close to what was once the medieval castle, which is currently the seat of the Town Hall. In front of its main fa\u00e7ade there is a large square that allows you to contemplate the whole temple.<\/p>

The origin of its construction dates back to the end of the 16th century and beginning of the 17th century, identifying itself with the Renaissance and Baroque styles. The church, as it has come down to us today, is the result of different construction phases in which highly prestigious architects such as Vermondo Resta, Hern\u00e1n Ruiz II, Pedro S\u00e1nchez Falconete and Esteban Garc\u00eda were involved. In a second phase, corresponding to the 18th century, remodelling works were carried out by the architects Jos\u00e9 Tirado, Jos\u00e9 Bonilla, Francisco Mu\u00f1oz and Pedro de Silva. Between 1750 and 1760, works were carried out by Francisco Jim\u00e9nez Bonilla who, among other parts of the temple, seems to have intervened in the tower.<\/p>

Outside, at the foot of the church, the main entrance and its slender tower stand out. The entrance, in Renaissance style, is made of marble from the local quarries. It consists of a semicircular arch between Tuscan pilasters and an entablature decorated with grotesques in the central area and cherub heads on the sides. The bell tower is made up of three bodies, delimited by projecting cornices. It has a single body of bells structured by pilasters and topped with a simple octagonal spire covered with white and cobalt blue tiles. Its construction dates back to the 17th century and is the work of the architect Esteban Garc\u00eda, although in the following century the master Francisco Jim\u00e9nez Bonilla intervened on it.<\/p>

The temple consists of a single nave divided into four sections with side chapels and a high choir at the foot. The nave is covered by a barrel vault with transverse arches and lunettes. In the background, behind the triumphal arch, is the main chapel, with a square floor plan and a half-orange vault on pendentives, where we can see a profuse polychrome mural decoration.<\/p>

On January 4, 1953, the church of Santa Mar\u00eda de Gracia suffered a serious fire that destroyed part of its artistic treasures, such as the main altarpiece in baroque style, which was reduced to ashes along with the sculptures it housed: the primitive image of the patron saint, Our Lady of Grace, and a valuable carving of a crucified Christ, the work of Roque Balduque, which occupied the attic of the old altarpiece and is now preserved in the sacristy.<\/p>

The main altarpiece that we can see today comes from the Church of San Felipe de Carmona (Seville). It is a splendid work of Sevillian baroque made of carved and gilded wood, in which its rich decoration stands out. In the centre, presiding over the altarpiece, is the Cristo del Crucero, an anonymous sculpture from the beginning of the 16th century, the patron saint of Almad\u00e9n de la Plata and an image of great veneration. The sculptural ensemble contains valuable baroque sculptures from the 17th and 18th centuries:<\/p>

On the side streets, on both sides of the Cristo del Crucero and on high corbels, we can see the images of Saint John the Evangelist and Mary Magdalene. In the upper part, in the attic and under a semicircular arch, is the sculpture of the Immaculate Conception. In the lower part, above the tabernacle, a niche formed by a large semicircular arch houses a sculpture of the Child Jesus, from the Seville school. On the sides of the altarpiece are the sculptures of Saint Joseph and Saint Anthony of Padua. <\/p>

Another admirable element of the main chapel is the beautiful doorway that leads to the sacristy, made by the master builder Esteban Garc\u00eda in 1676. The doorway is flanked by Solomonic columns, on which stands a split pediment whose central space is occupied by a cross on a pedestal. Next to the Main Chapel, on the Epistle wall, is the altarpiece with the Virgin of Grace, an image of glory by the local sculptor Jaime Mate, which replaced the one affected by the fire in 1953. Opposite it, on the Gospel wall, we can see a beautiful, profusely decorated 18th-century Baroque altarpiece, also from the Church of San Felipe de Carmona, which houses an image of the Divine Shepherdess of Souls, a work by the sculptor and religious image maker Francisco Buiza, dated 1955.<\/p>

Also located on the Gospel wall are the Chapel of the Virgin of Sorrows and the Chapel of Jesus of Nazareth. The first shows an exuberant decoration made with mural painting. It venerates the Virgin of Sorrows, a Baroque carving by an unknown artist, and the Recumbent Christ, a round sculpture from the 18th century that must have originally belonged to a descendant. In the chapel of Jesus of Nazareth we find this image of great devotion of Christ carrying the cross, a baroque carving from the Andalusian school.<\/p>


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CRUZ ISIDORO, F. Pedro S\u00e1nchez Falconete (ca. 1586\/1587-1666).<\/p>

FERN\u00c1NDEZ CACHO, Y. Una personalidad in\u00e9dita de la arquitectura sevillana del setecientos: Francisco Jim\u00e9nez Bonilla.<\/p>

HERN\u00c1NDEZ N\u00da\u00d1EZ, J. C. Algunas reflexiones sobre las ermitas de la provincia de Sevilla y sus bienes muebles.<\/p>

HERN\u00c1NDEZ GONZ\u00c1LEZ, S. Las ermitas de Alan\u00eds. Revista de Alan\u00eds<\/em>. 1997.<\/p>

P\u00c9REZ, A. Ermitas, monasterios y conventos de Alan\u00eds. Difundiendo Alan\u00eds<\/em>. 2018.<\/p>

VALDIVIESO, E. Gu\u00eda art\u00edstica de Sevilla y su provincia.<\/p>

VVAA. Iglesia de Nuestra Se\u00f1ora de Gracia. Ficha T\u00e9cnica Junta de Andaluc\u00eda<\/em>.<\/p>

VVAA. El g\u00f3tico-mud\u00e9jar por la provincia de Sevilla. 2015.<\/p>


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Slightly hidden in the current hermitage of Cuatrovitas, one of the best preserved rural mosques of Al-Andalus is preserved. Built around 1180, the Almohad mosque of the Muslim village of Cuatrovitas remained standing after the Castilian conquest and, although the village ended up disappearing, the old Islamic place of prayer continued to function as a Christian church under the patronage of Santa Mar\u00eda de Cuatrovitas.<\/p>

Architectural studies and recent archaeological excavations allow us to get closer to the Almohad building and the village today.<\/p>

The mosque of Cuatrovitas was surrounded by a low wall or wall that closed the complex formed by the prayer room or haram, the minaret or minaret and the ablutions courtyard or sahn. <\/p>

Of the complex, the minaret stands out, preserved practically intact, since only the upper body has disappeared through which the muezzin accessed the terrace to make the call to prayer. This element is characterised by the massive use of brick and the subdivision into bodies through the arrangement of windows through which the spiral staircase that ascends the interior was illuminated. On each side, double openings were placed at different heights, some of them framed in simple alfices and topped with a double horseshoe arch or a double lobed arch. These arches, in their origin, would have been supported by columns that acted as mullion and that have disappeared. Thanks to an engraving dated in the 17th-18th centuries, we know that the upper body would have been topped with a three-sphere mast or yamur, similar to the one that the Giralda had, which was probably lost as a consequence of the Lisbon earthquake in 1775.<\/p>

The patio is located before the prayer room. According to the Islamic rite, before praying the faithful must purify themselves by performing a washing or ablution. The presence of a water well in this open space could be proof of its use for this ritual, storing the purifying liquid in an ablution basin. Once purified, believers could enter the prayer room, the main entrance of which was to the northeast. Through a door topped by a horseshoe arch, they entered a rectangular room made up of three naves divided into the five sections that are preserved today. The central nave was separated from the side naves by horseshoe arches on square brick pillars. These arches were re-cut, but they are the ones that still support the central naves.<\/p>

On the east side, an auxiliary door also allowed access to the interior of the building from the courtyard. At the back of the central nave was the mihrab, a niche located in the center of the qibla wall, which marks the canonical direction of prayer. This is the most important space in the mosque, since it is where the faithful must direct their gaze and next to it the imam is placed to lead the prayer. Although only the foundations of the mihrab have been documented, the data extracted from the excavations, as well as the information obtained from other rural mosques, have allowed a hypothetical reconstruction of its elevation and interior decoration to be carried out.<\/p>

The mosque would have been maintained with few reforms in the moments after the Castilian conquest, the earliest of which was perhaps the demolition of the enclosing wall. Later, and already in the transition between the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, two naves were added to the sides and, later, another one to the qibla wall. Despite the reforms carried out, the naves and the Almohad minaret of the original building are preserved; the gradual abandonment of the town, of which the Cuatrovitas estate remains as the only testimony today, is not unrelated to the preservation of this complex. However, geophysical surveys and the excavation of some houses allow us to get closer to the urban layout and the morphology of the buildings of the Almohad period.<\/p>

The village served by the mosque was located on the left bank of the Norieta stream. The landscape showed a gentle relief dominated by areas of orchards, vineyards and pastures around the town centre and wheat fields, olive groves and scrubland in more distant areas. The buildings were arranged in streets that form square blocks, giving rise to a fairly regular checkerboard grid with a slightly less ordered area around the mosque. Perhaps the reason is that the buildings grouped around the mosque were the oldest and, the furthest away, the result of a planned expansion of the village.<\/p>

The houses documented in the archaeological excavations seem to respond to the same typology: simple rectangular or quadrangular constructions with a large interior garden courtyard, where the well is located, and open rooms around the courtyard. Following the dominant pattern in the Islamic world, the houses are conceived as a space closed to the outside where the openings to the street are the minimum necessary, offering privacy to the inhabitants, in contrast to the interior space articulated around the courtyard onto which the different rooms open.<\/p>","visitableComments":"


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GUARRIAR\u00c1N DAZA, P. Acerca del alminar almohade de Cuatrovitas en Bollullos de la Mitaci\u00f3n (Sevilla). Caetaria<\/em>. 3. 2000.<\/p>

HEINDEREICH, A. Cuatrovitas (Bollullos de la Mitaci\u00f3n. Sevilla). Nuevas investigaciones sobre el asentamiento abandonado y la mezquita almohade. 2017.<\/p>


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The hill of Santa Br\u00edgida is the highest viewpoint in the area. A Muslim marabout was erected on it and on top of it a chapel dedicated to Santa Br\u00edgida, which was maintained until the Napoleonic invasion, during which it housed a battery for the defence of the city of Seville. It was a strategic location not only because it controlled the main natural resources and communication routes, in this case the Guadalquivir, but also because from these heights it was possible to control the surrounding territories up to several kilometres away, thus providing a great defence for the city.<\/p>

The hermitage of Santa Br\u00edgida was a place of worship that played an important role during the War of Independence, when it was destroyed. No remains of it are preserved to this day. An ancient image of the Virgen de la Candelaria was venerated in the chapel, which was worshipped by monks who belonged to the rule of San Antonio Abad. This image of the Virgin was clothed and held the image of the Child Jesus in one arm and a candle in the opposite hand. It seems to have come from the old Chapel of the Patrocinio de Triana, after being ceded to replace a previous image that was in very poor condition.<\/p>

The hermitage had a single nave. To the left of the main entrance was a room that served as the hermits' quarters, while to the right was the altar of the Virgen de la Candelaria. This monastery was supported by popular charity and, due to its poverty, had neither a missal nor a chalice for worship, so they had to borrow them from the church of Camas in order to be able to celebrate mass. This also affected the upkeep of the building, to such an extent that in the 18th century the chapel was completely demolished. It was at this time that the Order of San Ant\u00f3n Abad took charge of the chapel and undertook the restoration of the building.<\/p>

In 1804 a new rebuilding began but was never completed due to the Napoleonic invasion, during which it was used as a military enclave, as the French used it as a strategic enclave for the control of Seville. After these events, the building was completely destroyed and its place was occupied by a farmhouse and later by a dwelling until well into the 20th century.<\/p>

The images of the Virgen de la Candelaria and Santa Br\u00edgida are still preserved today in the church of Santa Mar\u00eda de Gracia in Camas, where they are worshipped. Since 1993, on the first Sunday in October, the Santa Br\u00edgida pilgrimage has been held, in which the image of the saint is carried from the church to the hill.<\/p>","visitableComments":"


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ALONSO MORGADO, J. (2022). Sevilla Mariana. Rese\u00f1as hist\u00f3rico-descriptivas sobre las diferentes devociones marianas en la Archidi\u00f3cesis de Sevilla<\/em>. Universidad de Sevilla (Colecci\u00f3n Bibliofilia, n.\u00ba 13).\u00a0<\/p>

ANTEQUERA LUENGO, J.J. (1981). Noticias y documentos para la Historia de Camas (hasta finales del XIX). Tartessos.<\/p>

SERRANO ORTEGA, M (2006). Monumentos de los pueblos de la provincia de Sevilla<\/em>. Universidad de Sevilla.<\/p>","credits":"


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Iron Age sanctuary located on the Cerro de El Carambolo.<\/p>","comments":"

On the right bank of the lower stretch of the Vega del Guadalquivir, in the municipality of Camas, we find the Cerro de El Carambolo, 84 m. high, on which lie the archaeological remains of a protohistoric sanctuary of the Orient, located opposite the ancient city of Spal (present-day Seville) from which it was separated by the tail of an arm of the sea, the Guadalquivir paleo-sanctuary.<\/p>

El Carambolo is one of the most important sites in research on Tartessos during the 20th and 21st centuries. Although at first the site was interpreted as a settlement of huts inhabited by indigenous people that became more complex after contact with the Phoenicians, the latest excavations carried out at the site uncovered a large building that can be interpreted as a place of worship like those existing in the Near East during the early Iron Age.<\/p>

The sanctuary was founded at the end of the 9th century BC or the beginning of the 8th century BC, coinciding with the Phoenician colonisation, and was probably a dual sanctuary, dedicated to Astarte and Baal or Melkart. Due to its location, on a promontory in the Guadalquivir estuary, in addition to its sacred character, it would have served as a guide for ships sailing up the tongue of sea that went as far as Seville, as well as a place for economic and commercial transactions under the protection of the deities.<\/p>

The sanctuary has been occupied for some two hundred years, during which time it was rebuilt on several occasions, always maintaining its sacred character. The initial construction, which was quite simple, became more monumentalised and complex as time went by, and was rebuilt in up to five construction phases:<\/p>

** Carambolo V, first phase of construction. Late 9th century BC to late 8th century BC. BC to the end of the 8th century BC.<\/strong><\/p>

The entrance leads to a large rectangular room, 12 m long and 8 m wide, with a continuous bench around the perimeter. This room would have served as a distributor and access to the other rooms of the sanctuary. This room would have been an open-air multifunctional courtyard where offerings and sacrifices were possibly prepared. The latter would take place on a stepped platform at the back of the courtyard. On either side of the platform there would be two openings that would serve as access to two rectangular rooms that are interpreted as the cult chapels.<\/p>

On the left we find a room measuring 7 m. long and 3 m. wide, in the outermost part of which a series of hearths are documented and in the centre a circular altar. At the back of the room is a small room that can be interpreted as an adyton (a special area where only the priests in charge of the cult could enter).<\/p>

The room on the right is structured as a rectangular room that is supposed to have the same configuration as the previous one. Next to the access step to the room, a stone was documented that can be interpreted as a betilo or sacred stone consecrated to the divinity.<\/p>

** Carambolo IV, the first reform and extension of the sanctuary. Between the end of the 8th century and the transition between the 8th and 7th centuries BC.<\/strong><\/p>

It is divided into four areas:<\/p>

Area 1: This is configured as a large open space, delimited to the southwest by the sanctuary buildings. This space acts as an antechamber to the sanctuary, articulating the accesses to the different spaces. Its paving is made of a gravel and pebble bed for drainage, on top of which there is a reddish clay-tinged earth pavement.<\/p>

Area 2: The southeast area of the building is occupied by a series of quadrangular and rectangular rooms that can be interpreted as living areas. Access to these rooms is from the large courtyard, just in front of which is a rectangular room paved in red and with skirting boards in the same finish. To the right of this room is a small quadrangular room with floors finished in reddish clay.<\/p>

Area 3: Located to the west, this is a series of rectangular rooms arranged around a central courtyard. Just to the left and right of this courtyard there are two rooms that may have been related to food preparation due to the presence of hearths, animal remains and ceramic remains. On either side of these rooms are two rooms that have been interpreted as worship areas due to the care taken with their finish and the presence of steps. This area can be interpreted as a religious building with two rooms for worship and, in the centre, a logistical area for the preparation of ritual offerings to the gods.<\/p>

In the room on the right, we find a rectangular room measuring 5'80 x 6'60m. The remains of benches and floors are very well preserved, and in the central area a rectangular structure has been documented which has been interpreted as an altar.<\/p>

The room on the left is a room measuring 8 m x 15 m with perimeter steps decorated in red, as is the floor. In the central area an altar was found in the shape of a bull skin dyed red and with traces of burning.<\/p>

Area 4: This area, located to the west of the complex, is quite affected due to the buildings that took place during the 20th century. Despite this, a couple of rectangular rooms can be made out, which seem to be an area where the sacrificial offerings from the sanctuary were dumped.<\/p>

** Carambolo III, second reform and extension of the sanctuary. Between the 8th century and the first half of the 7th century BC.<\/strong><\/p>

The buildings are arranged around the central courtyard:<\/p>

Area 1: This is a rectangular space measuring 20 x 14 m., with an east-west orientation, around which the entire sacred area is articulated. This area is paved with a beaten earth floor stained red and along the enclosing wall there is a continuous bench. Access to the building was via a rectangular porticoed transit area paved with seashells.<\/p>

Area 2: During this phase, the southeast area of the building has a series of rectangular and quadrangular rooms that are connected to each other through a series of openings. Their floors are very well preserved and almost all of them have hearths located in their central area. The function of these rooms was presumably that of the sanctuary servants' quarters.<\/p>

Area 3: One of the two worship rooms was renovated to create a rectangular room measuring 21 m x 9 m. The tier was decorated with a red and black chequered motif. The tier was decorated with a checkerboard motif in red and black. In the centre of the room there is an altar in the shape of a bull skin with traces of burning in its central area.<\/p>

The other worship room is also quite carefully decorated. It is a room measuring 9'80 x 6'60 m. with two steps attached to the side walls decorated with red and white stripes. The floor was made of red-dyed clay and in the central area there is the same quadrangular altar as in the previous phase.<\/p>

The central rooms, which are accessed through the porticoed area, continue to be used to prepare food for offerings, as shown by the presence of hearths, ovens and the remains of pottery and animals.<\/p>

Area 4: This area, located to the west of the complex, is quite affected due to the buildings that took place during the 20th century. The remains that have been documented in this area are pits filled with ash deposits, organic and ceramic elements, with a similar functionality to that of the previous phase.<\/p>

** Carambolo II, third reform of the sanctuary. Second half of the 7th century BC.<\/strong><\/p>

The organisation of the sanctuary remains unchanged with respect to the previous period:<\/p>

Area 1: Its configuration does not change, but the rise in ground level causes a resurfacing of both the courtyard and the porticoed area with red-dyed clay slurry.<\/p>

Area\u00a02:\u00a0In\u00a0this\u00a0area,\u00a0some\u00a0rooms\u00a0are\u00a0compartmentalized\u00a0and\u00a0others\u00a0are\u00a0resurfaced.<\/p>

Area\u00a03:\u00a0At\u00a0this\u00a0time,\u00a0the\u00a0subdivision\u00a0of\u00a0spaces occurs. The\u00a0rooms\u00a0continue\u00a0to\u00a0be\u00a0articulated\u00a0around\u00a0the\u00a0central\u00a0courtyard,\u00a0with\u00a0rectangular\u00a0rooms\u00a0on\u00a0both\u00a0sides. One of the two large rooms used for worship is divided longitudinally, giving rise to two new rectangular rooms by means of a wall that rests on the old altar. The function of these new rooms is unknown at the moment.<\/p>

Area 4: This phase is quite poorly documented in this set. Everything suggests that the area is basically maintained as an open space of secondary character.<\/p>

** Carambolo I, last documented reform of the sanctuary. The end of the 7th century B.C.<\/strong><\/p>

In this phase differ at least 3 of the 4 previous domains:<\/p>

Area 1: in this phase there is a rise in the height of the large courtyard of the complex as a result of a series of spills of domestic origin that occur over a long period. The great ritual esplanade is compartmentalized and in front of the access there are some stands in the form of or inverse.<\/p>

Area 2: This zone displays the same configuration as the previous phase. The reforms that are documented here consist of reinforcing the walls and the rise of the levels of the rooms that encompass it.<\/p>

Area 3: This third area will be the most changed with the reforms of this phase. These changes focus on the compartmentalization and subdivision of some rooms and the union of others. The central courtyard will be the most affected since it will be divided into 4 rooms, two of rectangular plan and two of quadrangular plan. The result of these reforms will be the presence of a battery of six parallel rectangular rooms with northeast-southwest orientation and another battery of three rooms with southeast-northwest orientation.<\/p>","visitableComments":"

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A set of 21 pieces of protohistoric jewellery found inside a large ceramic vessel at Cerro de El Carambolo.<\/p>","comments":"

On 30 September 1958, during construction work in the so-called Tiro de Pich\u00f3n, on the Carambolo hill, a set of jewellery was found inside a large ceramic vase known as The Carambolo Treasure. At first, the pieces were distributed among the workers who found them, but they were soon handed over to the authorities.<\/p>

The set consists of 21 gold pieces weighing a total of 2'950 kg: a necklace, two 'bull's skin' pendants, two cylindrical bracelets and sixteen rectangular plaquettes.<\/p>

- Necklace of pseudo-seal pendants. This consists of a braided chain divided into two strands that are inserted into a pin from which seven oval-based seal pendants are threaded onto thinner chains. The decoration is a combination of floral and geometric motifs characteristic of Eastern cultures.<\/p>

\u00a0- Bull skin\" pendants. These are two pendants that are similar but different in decoration and size. The first has decorative motifs based on rosettes and its measurements are: maximum external height 15.5 cm; minimum internal height 10.2 cm; maximum external width 14 cm; minimum internal width 5.8 cm. The second pendant is decorated with recessed spheres and its measurements are: maximum outer height 16.0 cm, minimum inner height 13.8 cm; maximum outer width 11.0 cm; minimum inner width 11.0 cm; weight 198.32 g.<\/p>

\u00a0- Cylindrical bracelets. The decoration of these bracelets consists of horizontal bands of alternating decorative motifs of rosettes and hemispheres. These jewels have no close parallels and are considered to be an indigenous production that evolved from earlier forms from the Atlantic Final Bronze Age. The measurements of these pieces are 10.5 cm. inside diameter and 11.4 cm. high. In the first bracelet; and inner diameter 10.0 cm. and height 10.9 cm. in the second.<\/p>

\u00a0- Plates with rosettes. These make up a set of eight rectangular plates with alternating decoration of hemispheres and eleven-petal rosettes. They have perforations on the long sides for passing cords. They are differentiated into two sets of four by their sizes. Sub-set A measures 11 x 6 cm, while sub-set B measures 11 x 4'4 cm.<\/p>

\u00a0- Plates with a recessed hemisphere. This is a set of eight rectangular plates decorated with rows of recessed hemispheres alternating with rows of small circles. The long sides of the plates have perforations for joining them together with through cords. They all have the same dimensions, which are 9 x 5 cm.<\/p>

The Carambolo Treasure has had and still has several interpretative hypotheses about its possible use. The first interpretative hypothesis about the functionality of the treasure was that of Professor Carriazo. According to him, the pieces belonged to the trousseau of a Tartessian monarch, where the so-called pectorals would function as such, one set of plates would function as a tiara and another as a belt.<\/p>

Another interpretative hypothesis is the one put forward by Professors Escacena and Amores, where part of the Treasure is interpreted as liturgical trousseau destined for the pre-sacrificial procession of a bull and a cow immolated for Baal and Astarte. In this case, the so-called pectorals would be frontiles for the adornment of these animals, as would the two sets of plaques, the set adorned with rosettes being destined for Astarte's cow and the one with hemispherical elements for Baal's bull. The remaining pieces of the Treasury, a necklace of seals and bracelets, would consist of the liturgical trousseau of the priest who would carry out the sacrifice.<\/p>

Another hypothesis to take into account is the one proposed by Professor de la Bandera, who states that the bracelets should be associated with the platelets and the bull skin pectorals, while the necklace should have been part of a different set, unknown today, due to its stylistic difference. This hypothesis highlights the use of pectorals as such, but attached to the torso by means of cords, unlike Carriazo's hypothesis, but does not rule out their possible use as frontiles. On the other hand, in the case of the plaques, it highlights their possible multiple function as belts, diadems and crowns, and even bracelets-bracelets due to the parallels found in the oriental representations.<\/p>","visitableComments":"


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ESCACENA CARRASCO, J. L. Diis Tauris Sacrum. Las joyas del Carambolos como atuendo lit\u00fargico (2017). En RODR\u00cdGUEZ D\u00cdAZ, A., PAV\u00d3N SOLDEVILA, I. y DUQUE ESPINO, D.M. (Eds.), Historias de Tesoros. Tesoros con Historia<\/em>. Universidad de Extremadura, 201-240.<\/p>

ESCACENA CARRASCO, J. L. y AMORES CARREDANO, F. (2011). Revestidos como Dios manda. El tesoro del Carambolo como ajuar de consagraci\u00f3n. Spal, 20<\/em>, Universidad de Sevilla, 107-141.<\/p>


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The Museum of the City of Carmona, located in the Casa Palacio of the Marquis of las Torres, offers a journey through the city's history, from the origins of civilisation to the present day. Visitors can immerse themselves in a trip through the most important periods of Carmona\u2019s history, thanks to its extensive collection of archaeological remains. The most outstanding pieces include objects from the Paleolithic, Chalcolithic, and the Tartessian and Roman periods, with the famous Saltillo Vases being highlights of Tartessian culture.<\/p>

The building itself is an architectural gem. Built in the 16th century and renovated in the 18th century, the palace reflects the splendour of Seville\u2019s architecture from that period. Its imposing main facade, with two levels, is adorned with Doric and Ionic columns, highlighting the Quintanilla family crest and an elegant balcony crowned with a mixed-line pediment, elements which give it significant monumental presence. Inside, the spacious vestibule and central courtyard, with its semicircular arches and marble columns, organise the different rooms of the building, including the summer and winter houses, which complete the noble residence.<\/p>

The museum\u2019s exhibition not only stands out for its valuable archaeological content but also for its collection of paintings by artists such as Jos\u00e9 Arpa, Rodr\u00edguez Jald\u00f3n, and Valverde Lasarte, providing a more modern perspective on the artistic heritage of Carmona. The museum's rooms are organised to offer a chronological view of the city's evolution and its inhabitants. The room dedicated to the Paleolithic shows how the Guadalquivir Valley was first populated half a million years ago, through stone tools used by the first inhabitants of the area.<\/p>

As time passed, the city grew and transformed. During the Copper Age, around 4,500 years ago, the first human settlements were established in the area now occupied by Carmona. These settlements consisted of circular huts, the remains of which can also be seen in the museum, alongside tools and ceramic items from that period. The Bronze Age marked a period of expansion, with a population increase and the construction of the first defensive walls to protect the settlement.<\/p>

The museum also takes us back to the Tartessian and Turdetanian periods when Carmona became an important city within the context of Mediterranean civilisations. With the arrival of the Phoenicians, the city experienced significant technological and urban advancements, such as iron metallurgy and the introduction of the potter\u2019s wheel. This period is particularly important in the history of Carmona, as it was during this time that the urban core of the city was established.<\/p>

The room dedicated to Roman Carmona is one of the most striking in the museum, as it features a scale model of the city during that period, showing in detail the baths, forum, theatre, and amphitheatre, as well as the residential areas and family homes, called domus. These homes, organised around a central courtyard with a pond to collect rainwater, are an example of the advanced social and urban organisation of Roman civilisation.<\/p>

Finally, the museum also houses collections that reflect Carmona's medieval history, both during its Islamic and Christian periods. The Muslim city of Qarmuna, although with few archaeological remains, is represented by a reconstruction of an Islamic kitchen discovered during excavations in 1991. In the room dedicated to Christian Carmona, the works of embellishment carried out by Pedro I and the Catholic Monarchs are highlighted, as they constructed new buildings and fortifications that shaped the city as it is known today.<\/p>","visitableComments":"


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The bastion we know today as the Alc\u00e1zar de la Puerta de Sevilla in Carmona formed part of the city's defensive enclosure and allowed access to the city from the west.<\/p>","comments":"

The bastion we know today as the Alc\u00e1zar of the Puerta de Sevilla in Carmona was part of the city's defensive enclosure and provided access to the town from the west. The structures we can see are the result of over 2,000 years of history, reflecting the evolution of military engineering, or the art of defence, from the Punic period to the Modern Age. Over these centuries, a simple bastion transformed into a complex defensive system that still evokes awe when passing beneath its imposing walls.<\/p>

The first enclosure protecting the access to the city of Carmo from the west was a fortified stronghold with a square-shaped plan, which, taking advantage of the pre-existing topography, extended outward from the city walls. The bastion featured a small advanced tower that facilitated the defence of the gate, located to its side, in the event of an attack.<\/p>

This structure is commonly dated to the Punic period, although some researchers date it to the early Roman era, linking it to Hannibal's presence in southern Iberia and the military events of the 3rd century BC during the Second Punic War between Carthage and Rome. However, remnants have been found that seem to indicate that this fortification was already superimposed over an earlier defensive enclosure dating back to the 8th century BC.<\/p>

During the Roman Republican period, in the context of the Roman civil wars, the gate was reformed and monumentalised. The access was reinforced with a trapezoidal courtyard or intervallum, surrounded by walls with two openings covered by barrel vaults at the ends. The intervallum allowed for the defence of the second gate from above, should attackers manage to breach the first. The Puerta de Sevilla, along with the Puerta de C\u00f3rdoba, marked the ends of the cardo maximus<\/em>, the east-west artery that structured Roman Carmo.<\/p>

Furthermore, in the second half of the 1st century BC, the Punic bastion was further elevated, and on the upper terrace, a powerful base was constructed, upon which a tetrastyle temple was built. The temple would have been accessible from the city by means of a system of stairs and terraces, with several design hypotheses, including the one presented in the early scientific studies of the Puerta de Sevilla.<\/p>

The next significant phase of reconstruction occurred during the Islamic Lower Medieval period, with works dating from the 9th to the 13th centuries. For nearly a thousand years, the gate continued to be in use with its Roman configuration, and the city's defences were renewed after the fall of the Umayyad Caliphate with military architectural advances from the Almoravids and Almohads.<\/p>

Thus, during the Andalusian period, the defensive system around the gate became much more complex. In this phase, a rectangular structure was added to the Roman-era access system, featuring two openings framed by pointed horseshoe arches, allowing for the addition of a \"buhedera\" (a small fortified room) and a \"ladronera\" (a space for defending against thieves). These openings allowed for vertical defence against attackers attempting to access the gate. Between the access points, the open space or intervallum still remained. As for the area previously occupied by the temple, a cistern was now built to supply water in case of an attack on the defensive complex.<\/p>

With some subsequent, less significant reforms, the Puerta de Sevilla today offers a kaleidoscopic view through which we can approach the various historical events that have shaped the imposing bastion of Carmona.<\/p>","visitableComments":"

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Tuesday to Friday from 9:00 am to 6:00 pm.<\/p>

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HERRERA, H. Puerta de Sevilla en Carmona. Bolet\u00edn de la Real Academia de la Historia<\/em>. 1906.<\/p>

JIM\u00c9NEZ, A. La Puerta de Sevilla en Carmona. 1989.<\/p>

LINEROS ROMERO, R. Urbanismo romano de Carmona. CAREL<\/em>. 3. 2005.<\/p>

RODR\u00cdGUEZ RODR\u00cdGUEZ, I. La Puerta de Sevilla. Monumento Nacional desde hace 100 a\u00f1os. CAREL<\/em>. 5. 2007.<\/p>

SCHATTNER, T. La Puerta de Sevilla en Carmona y otras puertas romanas en la Pen\u00ednsula Ib\u00e9rica. R\u00f3mula<\/em>. 4. 2005.<\/p>

VVAA. Alc\u00e1zar y Puerta de Sevilla. Ficha T\u00e9cnica Junta de Andaluc\u00eda<\/em>.<\/p>


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The tholos of Montelirio was built on a natural promontory between the 29th and 28th centuries BC. The construction comprises a long underground corridor and two circular chambers connected by a short corridor. Twenty-six burials have been found at Montelirio: three in the corridor, one in the tumulus, two in the Small Chamber (male and female) and 20 in the Large Chamber.<\/p>

The corridor, 40 m long, was divided into three sections by lintels of red-coloured slate and represents a symbolic transition between two worlds: that of the living and that of the dead. Part of the funerary ritual took place in the central section. On two cylindrical altars made of clay and dyed red, aromatic herbs such as lavender and heather were burnt to purify the place, while knives, arrowheads and symbolic vessels made of clay were placed on the floor and walls.\u00a0These offerings are flanked by two secondary burials, i.e. pits containing previously selected parts of the skeleton. In the transition between the second and third sections there is another primary exhumation on the pavement.<\/p>

The corridor leads to a circular chamber lined with slate slabs painted in rust red with abundant splashes of cinnabar. Around 20 bodies were found in this large chamber, accompanied by a trousseau. Experts have raised the possibility that all 20 people were buried simultaneously or within a relatively short period of time. These women, arranged around a stele, were surrounded by a trousseau consisting of extraordinary objects made of gold, rock crystal, ivory or amber, as well as plates and pots for the afterlife. They were dressed in robes, some of them made of hundreds of thousands of beads, all covered with large quantities of red cinnabar-based pigment, around an altar and inside a megalithic monument. The archaeological evidence clearly demonstrates that a funerary ritual took place at Montelirio sometime in the 29th to 28th centuries BC, which was a special event for the inhabitants of the large settlement of Valencina and the surrounding region. The type of artefacts associated with these women, as well as the arrangement of their bodies and their particular physical conditions suggest that they were priestesses, people whose status was linked to the ideological or religious sphere of this community. All the material evidence points to the fact that the women who were buried in this tholos had a prominent role in this community.<\/p>

The main chamber, smaller in size and connected by a small corridor to the previous one, is the eternal resting place of the protagonists of the funerary rite: a man and a woman. The chamber, although plundered, preserves a rich trousseau made up of objects such as an elephant tusk, ivory piglets, acorns, gold and arrowheads.<\/p>","visitableComments":"

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FERN\u00c1NDEZ FLORES, A. y AYCAR LUENGO, V. (2013). Memoria cient\u00edfica: Intervenci\u00f3n arqueol\u00f3gica puntual en el dolmen de Montelirio (Castilleja de Guzm\u00e1n, Sevilla)<\/em>. Memoria Final. Delegaci\u00f3n Provincial de Cultura de Sevilla. In\u00e9dito.\u00a0<\/p>

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In 1930, the complex passed into the hands of the firm \"Lissen Hermanos\", who offered it to the \"Junta de Utilizaci\u00f3n de Inmuebles\", who in turn handed it over to Seville City Council. In 1943 it passed into the hands of the Ministry of National Education, who adapted it, through a series of works carried out by Juan de Talavera, as a Colegio Mayor Masculino, the Colegio Mayor de Santa Mar\u00eda del Buen Aire, where the writer Antonio Gala studied. This student residence depended on the University of Seville, which is the current owner of the facilities and has used them as a hall of residence until 2014.<\/p>","visitableComments":"

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VIGIL-ESCALERA PACHECO, M. (1992). El jard\u00edn del Colegio Mayor \"Santa Mar\u00eda del Buen Aire\". Una obra olvidada de J.C.N. Forestier. Temas de Est\u00e9tica y Arte<\/em>, n\u00ba8.<\/p>


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The different factories and artistic styles that the temple presents are a material reflection of the historical events that have occurred since the date of the beginning of the works, in the first half of the 14th century, until the last reforms, carried out in the 20th century.<\/p>

Notable Mudejar, Renaissance and Baroque constructions impress with their purity, forming a unique whole that shakes with its monumentality.<\/p>

Initially, the building was built in Mudejar style, with a single nave and equipped with an access tower-fa\u00e7ade that, today, forms part of the foot of the church. The building is a clear example of the particular style of the Christian kingdoms of the peninsula, where medieval European artistic traditions are combined with those of the East through the Andalusian world. This mixture of currents is materialized in the tower facade, which stands out in the ensemble for its uniqueness, which reminds us of the Andalusian architecture of the kingdom of Granada.<\/p>

From 1350, and probably to accommodate more faithful, the building was extended by adding two narrow side naves on each side of the old church, configuring a crenellated temple with three bodies. The walls where the current entrances to the building open correspond to this second moment, although as we can see in the Epistle nave, the openings that gave access to the church at that time are blocked.<\/p>

Between this phase and the mid-15th century, part of the church was enclosed, leaving two doors in the wall to access the enclosure, one located at the foot of the temple and another close to the Epistle Door. The remains of this wall and its doors have been wrongly interpreted as part of the walled enclosure of the Almohad town.<\/p>

The next reform took place in the mid-15th century, in a late Gothic-Mudejar style. At this time, the bell tower was added, which stands on the crenellated section of the church, and the apse, which over time would be integrated into the head of the Renaissance church.<\/p>

In 1538, coinciding with a powerful economic boom in Cazalla de la Sierra, a major restructuring of the building was carried out, as the Mudejar style that defined it stylistically was going to give way to the new Renaissance aesthetic. This work is attributed to the master Diego de Ria\u00f1o and his disciple Mart\u00edn de Gainza. With this reform, a large three-nave church was proposed that increased the width of the temple, but respected the previous alignments, including the apse. Although the work remained unfinished, it is the one that has left the greatest impression due to its monumentality. Inside, the diaphanous space covered by coffered vaults supported by superb pillars topped by decorated cubes with reliefs of apostles and saints stands out. The apse, with a polygonal floor plan, is covered with a coffered vault, and is raised from the rest of the temple by means of a step.<\/p>

The following reforms were undertaken from the 18th century onwards and did not greatly affect the final configuration of the temple, reforming what remained of the Mudejar church. At this date, the primitive temple was covered with barrel vaults and lunettes, the opening and monumentalisation of the door that leads to the Plaza Mayor was undertaken, and the structure that houses the clock was placed.<\/p>

In the 20th century, the church was seriously affected by the events that led to the military uprising. In 1936, a fire caused the disappearance of most of the altarpieces, including the main altarpiece, and the paintings that adorned the temple. Another treasure that disappeared, in this case as a result of pillage and looting, was the rich collection of goldsmith's work and textiles that had been exhibited at the Ibero-American Exhibition of 1929. The year after the fire, the restoration of the building and the replacement of the furniture and fixtures began, finishing the work in 1947. This fact was recorded in an inscription placed in the entrance portico to the temple.<\/p>","visitableComments":"


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Located in the north of the province of Seville, Cazalla de la Sierra lies within the Sierra Morena Natural Park, an area of great natural and historical value. The origins of the urban centre date back at least to Roman times, the period when the first documented archaeological remains date from. With a richly preserved architectural heritage, the historic centre of Cazalla de la Sierra has been declared an Asset of Cultural Interest for its beauty and monumentality.\u00a0<\/p>","comments":"

Located to the north of the province of Seville, Cazalla de la Sierra is situated within the Natural Park of Sierra Morena, a region of great natural and historical value. The origins of the urban centre date back at least to the Roman period, when the earliest documented archaeological remains were discovered. With a rich architectural heritage preserved, the Historic Complex of Cazalla de la Sierra has been declared a Site of Cultural Interest due to its beauty and monumentality.<\/p>

Within the Complex, the Plaza Mayor stands out, a large public space that emerged in the 16th century and became the central hub of the town, where the main civil and religious buildings were situated. Rectangular in shape and with a perimeter of approximately 250 metres, the space is distributed across different levels, adapting to the terrain's topography. The surrounding buildings offer a glimpse of the popular mountain architecture from various periods.<\/p>

On one of the sides, one of the principal monuments of Cazalla stands out: the Church of Nuestra Se\u00f1ora de la Consolaci\u00f3n. With its imposing architecture and privileged location, it serves as a visual landmark, both from the outside and within the town. The walls of the church reflect the successive construction phases this unique building has undergone, from its origins in the Mudejar period, through the magnificent Renaissance temple, to the later interventions in the 18th century. The church is accessed from the Plaza Mayor via a staircase leading to the main door of the temple.<\/p>

The complex is notable for its tower-fa\u00e7ade in Mudejar Gothic style and the large Renaissance volume, featuring three large circular buttresses topped with conical pinnacles.<\/p>

Opposite the church stands one of the emblematic buildings of the Plaza Mayor, which once housed the old courts of Cazalla. This 16th-century mansion is distinguished by its classical stone portal, consisting of a lintelled opening between fluted columns on pedestals with composite capitals, upon which rests a frieze decorated with grotesque reliefs, culminating in a pronounced cornice. This noble house is currently used as the Pensioners' Home.<\/p>

A majestic 18th-century building that once housed the old town hall, it has now been adapted for the courtrooms. It stands out among the buildings in the Plaza Mayor for its Baroque fa\u00e7ade, divided by large Tuscan pilasters and crowned by a blind balustrade. The portal is located in the centre, flanked by paired Tuscan columns on the lower level, and a balcony with a shield and Ionic columns above. The remaining openings are formed by windows on the ground floor and balconies on the upper floor.<\/p>

Returning to the front where the church is located, we find a row of two- and three-storey houses, following the design of noble architecture from the 17th and 18th centuries. Among them, the corner house on San Luis Gonzaga Street stands out for its unique fa\u00e7ade, featuring half-columns on pilasters framing the door and central window, above which rises a wavy frieze leading to a balcony flanked by columns with Ionic capitals.<\/p>

This side of the square houses two-storey buildings, representing popular architecture from the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Some of these buildings display typical regionalist architectural elements, such as the use of exposed brick around the window frames and decorative tiles on the fa\u00e7ades.<\/p>

Finally, it is worth noting the location of the Tourist Information Office in the Plaza Mayor, from which the town provides information services on local points of interest, its natural surroundings, and the rich heritage and history of Cazalla de la Sierra, as well as the national significance of its wineries and distilleries.<\/p>","visitableComments":"


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The castle of Constantina, dating from the 14th century and later reformed, played a key role in the defence of the western Sierra Morena and the V\u00eda de la Plata as part of the Banda Gallega. Its polygonal enclosure with walls, seven semi-circular towers and a 12-metre high keep housed a cistern that provided water for the garrison. Despite modifications, including Napoleonic reforms in the 19th century, it retains its main defensive structure and original elements such as its parade ground and cistern.<\/p>","comments":"

In 1247, Constantina was conquered by King Ferdinand III of Castile. In the 14th century, due to its strategic importance in the whole of the Banda Gallega, a defensive belt created to the north of the Sevillian alfoz to contain the territorial pretensions of the neighbouring kingdom of Portugal, it came under the control of the Council of Seville. The construction of the castle dates from the beginning of this century, although from this first phase only the barbican, or wall, made of rammed earth, and the lower chamber of the cistern have survived.<\/p>

Most of the walls that remain standing correspond to the period between 1466 and 1474, coinciding with the war of succession in the kingdom of Castile between Isabella of Castile and Juana la Beltraneja.\u00a0During this phase the castle passed into the hands of the Count of Arcos, Don Rodrigo Ponce de Le\u00f3n, who completely remodelled it.<\/p>

At the end of the 15th century, the Catholic Monarchs handed the castle over to Don Luis Portocarrero, Lord of Palma del R\u00edo, who also carried out a series of works that completed the image of the fortress, this being the moment of greatest splendour of the building.\u00a0Subsequently, new alterations and constructions were carried out that modified its appearance. Of great importance were the actions carried out between 1810 and 1812 by Napoleon's troops to prepare it as an artillery fort during the War of Independence.<\/p>

In recent years, several archaeological investigations and consolidation works have been carried out that make it possible to visit this unique enclave, including the reconstruction of the keep carried out in 2013.<\/p>

The fortified complex of Constantina is configured as a small oval-shaped enclosure that rises on the top of the hill it crowns, dominating its surroundings. A barbican was built around it to provide it with a first line of defence, the gateway of which was located on the eastern slope, towards the town. The castle is made up of ten walls with five circular towers and two ultra-semi-circular towers flanking the entrance gate. At the end of the 15th century, a new quadrangular tower was added to the complex, built of wood, whose base was found during archaeological research.<\/p>

Access to the interior was by means of a bent doorway, and to the right is the keep, which stands out from the rest of the complex at a height of 12 m. It consists of two independent, earthen chambers. It consists of two separate chambers and a roof terrace. The lower chamber was accessed from the Plaza de Armas and was covered with a barrel vault, while the upper chamber could be accessed from the walkway. The latter was divided into two rooms by a splayed arch, the first covered with a barrel vault and the second with a groin vault.<\/p>

The circular towers were built slightly forward of the walls to facilitate the defence of the fortress. They also had two chambers: a lower chamber with a wooden roof and a door leading to the parade ground, and an upper chamber covered by a brick vault, which was accessed from the parapet.\u00a0<\/p>

Of the wooden tower built at the end of the 15th century, the mortar platform attached to the wall on which it was built has been located. It was accessed through an open doorway in the southern wall. According to the researchers, in addition to the logical function of surveillance and defence, it was also used for recreational purposes, as a lookout point and a place to stay and rest, and they associate its construction with the festivities held on the occasion of the wedding of the Infanta Isabella, first-born daughter of the Catholic Monarchs, to King Alfonso of Portugal in 1490, as Constantina was the place chosen for the Infanta's departure to Portugal.<\/p>

The interior of the castle has a large polygonal parade ground inside which there are various buildings such as dwellings, warehouses, kitchens and stables that served the inhabitants. One of the most important of these is the cistern, an underground construction that is still in very good condition. It has a rectangular floor plan with four lanterns arranged in a rectangle. The staircase leading down to the cistern is very narrow and leads to an interior divided into two naves by a line of pillars and arches covered with barrel vaults.\u00a0<\/p>

Later, at the end of the 17th century - beginning of the 18th century, new constructions were built, such as the so-called \u2018alcazarejo\u2019, a defensive redoubt located in the access area to the parade ground, and the upper chamber of the cistern.<\/p>

All these constructions gave Constantina Castle great complexity and monumentality, making it one of the most unique fortresses in the province of Seville.<\/p>","visitableComments":"


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VALOR PIECHOTTA, M. Historia y Arqueolog\u00eda de la Constantina medieval. Sevilla. 2011.<\/p>

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VVAA. Anteproyecto de los trabajos de consolidaci\u00f3n, dinamizaci\u00f3n y mejora de la accesibilidad para uso tur\u00edstico del Castillo de Constantina (Sevilla). 2023.<\/p>


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In the Plaza del Llano stands the parish church of Santa Mar\u00eda de la Encarnaci\u00f3n, which, ennobled by its tower-fa\u00e7ade, is the most important church in the centre of Constantina,\u00a0<\/p>","comments":"

In the Plaza de Llano del Sol stands the parish church of Santa Mar\u00eda de la Encarnaci\u00f3n, which, ennobled by its tower-fa\u00e7ade, is the most important temple in the urban centre of Constantina.<\/p>

The construction of the church dates back to between the end of the 14th century and the beginning of the 15th century, and seems to respond to the need to unify three old medieval churches into a single parish in order to serve the growing population of the town. The building was designed with three naves separated by pillars and pointed arches, a chancel and a tower-fa\u00e7ade, of which the first body is preserved, the whole following a Mudejar typology.<\/p>

Over the centuries, as is usual in buildings of this entity, numerous reforms and additions will take place. In the 16th century, the main fa\u00e7ade was added and in later centuries, the three side chapels were attached to the old building, leaving the presbytery and its side chapels covered with ribbed vaults and the rest of the naves with groin vaults separated by transverse vaults.<\/p>

However, at the beginning of the Spanish Civil War, the church suffered a fire that seriously affected the building, losing the original wooden roof of the central nave and the altarpiece of the main altar. The tower, however, was not damaged.<\/p>

In 1941, restoration work began on the temple, whose reforms have taken place throughout the 20th century. In this process, the church has been provided with the furniture, altars and images that we can see today, where a simple altarpiece stands out, some pieces of which are attributed to Felipe de Ribas and images of great popular devotion such as the Virgin of Sorrows.<\/p>

As many specialists have pointed out, the most outstanding building element is the tower, with five floors plus a spire, which reaches 50 metres and occupies the centre of the building. Its great slenderness is intensified by the strong contrast between the whiteness of the walls and the decorative stone motifs of the doorway and other parts of the fa\u00e7ade. The construction was started by Mart\u00edn de Ga\u00ednza, who is responsible for both the main doorway and the Renaissance window, completed around 1546. This master was later replaced by Hern\u00e1n Ruiz II, who is possibly responsible for the project to complete the tower, which was completed by Pedro D\u00edaz de Palacios between 1571 and 1575.<\/p>

The tower rests on the large two-body Renaissance doorway made of carved stone. The \u201cDoor of Forgiveness\u201d, which gives access to the church, has a semicircular arch and is flanked by columns with capitals, which are decorated with griffins and angel heads that support a complete entablature. At the top, the double window stands out, topped by a pediment, on whose sides are sculpted the images of the Virgin and Saint Gabriel in the scene of The Annunciation. The twin window is shown to us as one of the most notable stone carvings of the Renaissance in the province. The other window of the church of Santa Mar\u00eda de la Encarnaci\u00f3n is also Renaissance, with a semicircular arch, and is located to the right of the doorway. Through it, the baptismal font is illuminated.<\/p>

Eighty-seven steps high, on a narrow and steep spiral staircase illuminated by loopholes, one reaches the clock machinery, which began to measure time in Constantina one hundred and thirty years ago. The time is marked on four dials from the fourth section of the tower. The tower's connection with timekeeping already appears early on with the old sundial located on one side of it. However, in 1662 the first mechanical clock was installed, located in the third section, and the dial on which the hours are inscribed is preserved. In 1890, the old clock was replaced by the one that the tower displays today and its mechanism requires that it be wound once a day every day of the year.<\/p>

Three weights hang from the machinery, their weight and gravity cause the force that, through axes, moves the hands. These weights take twenty-four hours to touch the ground. Therefore, the weights must be raised every day so that the clock does not stop. Of the eight bells in the tower, the three located in the highest area are the ones that ring following the orders of the clock. However, its operation was interrupted many times until, on the occasion of its centenary, it was put back into operation thanks to the residents of Constantina and their Cavalcade of the Three Wise Men.<\/p>

The commendable work of winding the clock daily allows the people of Constantina to maintain the historical link with time and its hands.<\/p>","visitableComments":"


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The Municipal Historical Museum of Ecija, located in the Benamej\u00ed Palace, offers a journey through the history of the city, from Prehistoric times to the Modern Age, highlighting its Roman and Andalusian past. Among its most important pieces are the Wounded Amazon and a rich collection of mosaics and archaeological artefacts that reflect the importance of Ecija in the Roman province of Baetica.<\/p>","comments":"

The Municipal Historical Museum of \u00c9cija, located in the majestic Palace of Benamej\u00ed, offers visitors a journey through the rich history of the city. This Baroque building, constructed between 1700 and 1760 and declared a Cultural Heritage site, is a magnificent example of Andalusian civil architecture from the period. Its monumental brick fa\u00e7ade and the two viewing towers at the ends create a striking contrast with the sobriety of the exterior, which is only broken by the spectacular Baroque portal crowned by the coat of arms of the Marquises of Benamej\u00ed.<\/p>

The museum is organised into various exhibition halls covering different historical periods, from Prehistory to the Modern Age, providing a detailed look at the city and its surroundings\u2019 evolution.<\/p>

Prehistory and Protohistory<\/strong><\/p>

The Prehistory hall explores the earliest traces of life in the Guadalquivir valley, where groups of hunter-gatherers settled hundreds of thousands of years ago. Through flint tools and other displayed objects, one can understand the technological evolution of these groups. The room also addresses the Neolithic Revolution, which brought agriculture and sedentary life, marking the start of the first peasant economies.<\/p>

In the Protohistory hall, the Tartessian and Turdetanian periods are highlighted, marking the transition from prehistoric to historic societies. The exhibition includes valuable items such as the \u00c9cija Plaque, a masterpiece of Tartessian goldsmithing, and a model of the Alhonoz archaeological site, one of the region\u2019s most important Iberian settlements.<\/p>

The Roman Era<\/strong><\/p>

The museum also dedicates several rooms to the Roman period when \u00c9cija, known as Colonia Augusta Firma Astigi, became one of the most important cities in the Roman province of B\u00e9tica. The city was a major producer of olive oil, which was exported across the empire, and this prosperity is reflected in the archaeological remains on display in the museum. These include a recreation of a Roman boat used to transport oil, as well as amphorae and other tools from the olive oil industry.<\/p>

Another room, titled \"In the Image of Rome\", shows how Astigi was designed and decorated following the model of the imperial capital. Architectural elements like capitals, pedestals, and fragments of temples, as well as decorative and domestic objects, are displayed. Among the museum's greatest treasures is the bronze gilt screen, a unique Roman piece found during excavations at Plaza de Espa\u00f1a in \u00c9cija.<\/p>

The Middle Ages and Al-Andalus<\/strong><\/p>

The section dedicated to the Middle Ages offers a look at the transformation of \u00c9cija after the fall of the Roman Empire. During the Muslim period, the city, known as Isti\u0177\u0177a, became an important agricultural and scientific centre in the Emirate and Caliphate of C\u00f3rdoba. The room displays a collection of Andalusian ceramics and three Muslim burials, one of which is that of a pregnant woman, offering insights into life in the city during that time.<\/p>

Art and Heritage Rooms<\/strong><\/p>

The museum also houses an impressive collection of Roman sculpture, with the Wounded Amazon being the most emblematic piece. This marble sculpture, discovered in Plaza de Espa\u00f1a, is a high-quality Roman copy of a Greek original and is considered one of the most important recent archaeological finds.<\/p>

In the mosaic room, visitors can admire some of the most significant Roman mosaics found in Astigi, including the Mosaic of the Seasons and the Mosaic of the Triumph of Bacchus, which decorated the homes of the wealthiest families in the city.<\/p>","visitableComments":"

HOURS<\/strong><\/p>

(19 September to 30 June):<\/p>

Tuesday to Friday: 10:00-13:30 and 16:30-18:30<\/p>

Saturdays: 10:00-14:00 and 17:30-20:00<\/p>

Sundays and public holidays: 10:00-15:00<\/p>

(Mondays closed. Closed on January 1st, January 6th and December 25th)<\/p>


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SUMMER TIMETABLE<\/strong><\/p>

(1 July to 18 September):<\/p>

Tuesday to Friday: 10:00-14:30<\/p>

Saturdays: 10:00-14:30 and 20:00-22:00<\/p>

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El Pedroso is a town with a long history dating back to prehistoric times. It is an important mining centre in the province of Seville. this municipality boasts a wealth of historical and artistic heritage of great interest, such as the Ermita del Cristo de la Misericordia, the Renaissance-style Cruz del Humilladero, the Ermita de la Virgen del Espino, dedicated to the town's patron saint, and the Iglesia de Nuestra Se\u00f1ora de Consolaci\u00f3n, which houses works by great artists such as Juan Mart\u00ednez Monta\u00f1\u00e9s and Pedro Mill\u00e1n. Another major point of interest is the Escuelas Nuevas building, designed by the architect An\u00edbal Gonz\u00e1lez, which houses a permanent exhibition on Jos\u00e9 Manuel Lara, founder of the Grupo Planeta.<\/p>


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