History Vestibule of Castilleja of Cuesta

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History of Castilleja of Cuesta

The municipality of Castilleja of Cuesta is located in the western sector of the province of Seville and in the Eastern end of the region of the Aljarafe, the cornice of the Aljarafe, shown on the fertile valley of the Guadalquivir. T�no municpal is of 2 km square and has about 17,000 inhabitants.

Some historians relate the origin of this locality to the city tartessia of Ucia, within this region appeared the treasure of carambolo, located to very few meters of which today policeman of Castilleja of Cuesta is terminio. The Roman colonization of these earth takes shape in the camping fortified of Castrates, name that the visigodos conserve and that the Arabs turn the farmhouse of Castalla Talasana. Santo in 1.248 is conquered by Fernando III, maintaining his character agricultural. In second half of century XIII, this territory is donated at your service Military order of Santiago, that is in charge to repoblar it. After the fraticida war between Pedro I Cruel and Enrique de Trastamara, this last one, proclaimed new Castilian monarch, give earth to its Guzmán ally, in whose family it remains Castilleja until century XIX.

The primitive nucleus structure around the Seat of Santiago and the longitudinal axis of the Real street. From him the later urban growth takes place, mainly by the happened demographic increase from mid century XX. They are arising new leaned districts to the already existing weave, fundamentally in direction the west, because proximity of the municipal term of Beds prevents the expansion him towards the east. The growth begins the Seat of Santiago behind the back of, where the “working district” arises, and at the end of the Real street, with the quarter of the Conception. Later the Light, then separated of the rest of the town by olive groves, and after her, the urbanization the Battlements and the quarter Nueva Seville, this last one in the suroccidental end of the term are born by the south the quarter. In the last years have been filled up some of the existing urban emptinesses in different zones from the urban helmet.

The Freeway of the Centennial V (A-49) crosses the term of Castilleja of this a the west by its South third, dividing the nucleus in two urban sectors differentiated clearly. The road structure of the old helmet is executed without no previous scheme. The longitudinal axis of the Real street (the passage of the N-431 highway) vertebra the road network of this a the west, accompanied by a series of perpendicular axes that connect the different sectors from the traditional nucleus. The construction has surpassed the A-49, with residential uses and educative equipment. The quarter Nueva Seville structure on the basis of the Avenue of Juan Carlos I and connects with the quarter the Light by the Avenue of the Unit.

The locality at the moment occupies a great proportion of the municipal term, forming continuous an urban one with other neighboring populations: Gines (to the west), Bormujos (to the southwest) and You will take (to the Southeastern). The tipologías edificatorias are traditional in the urban helmet and in the Light, whereas in the New Seville, that concentrates around a third of the municipal population, they are blocks in height. The nucleus presents/displays an irregular morphology altogether, with the persistence of some urban emptinesses.

Between its constructions of artistic historical interest they emphasize the church of Santiago (century XIV, of style to mudéjar), the church of the Immaculate Conception (century XVII), the Palace of the Dukes of Salt mines, the old Palace of Dukes de Montpensier (century XIX, today turned private school) the hermitage of Guide, in its Arab morabito day and the property of the Sagrada faimilia, San Ignacio and Santa Barbara.

House Palace of Dukes de Montpensier

The most illustrious building is the call Palace of Hernán Cortes, which it was not of Courteous, but of an edile of city council of Seville, the jury Rodriguez, friend of the conqueror of Mexico. Here it came Courteous to replace his health, guest, and here it surprised the death to him, stopping his heart that as much was beat in that superhuman war in that with dozens of soldiers one seized of a whole empire.

In the garden of this palace there is a peculiar one, curiosísima stone tablet slate, whose inscription is a single word: Cordovan. And who is east Cordovan who is buried in a garden? Then the horse that saved the life of Hernán Courteous in at night Sad battle. Like Bucéfalo of Alexander, or like Babieca of the Cid, was a glorious horse. Courteous was engaged in it when wine of Mexico and retired on the chair and the bridles here, already, Cordovan lived its last days in this luminous property of the Aljarafe. Today the palace is School of the Irish.

Church of Santiago the Greater one

To the infant Don Rodrigo Alfonso, a personage of whom history speaks little, must to the foundation of the church of Santiago the Greater one, when it at your service yielded the defense of Santiago settling down therefore Encomienda of Castilleja of the Cuesta.Iglesia to three ships. In the altarpiece, its holder the Santiago Apostle and the Virgin of the Solitude. In another altar the Virgin of the Sense of expectancy, and in another one a Boy Jesus, builds of insigne Mountain Martinez. And Santo Domingo de Guzmán, and San Juan attributable to Pedro de Mena. And a Died Christ, of Pedro Roldán or his daughter Luisa Roldán de Mena “the Sheave”.

Church of the Immaculate Conception

The greater altarpiece is work of Cristóbal de Guadix, also of the family of the Roldán. The Immaculate one presides over the altarpiece.

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