Town hall

Cantillana is placed in the center of the province of Seville on the right margin of the Guadalquivir and the lefthander of Viar, along with the spurs of Sierra Morena.

His historical origin goes back to the epoch of the stone pulimentada. In the current emplacement the Romans established a nucleus of population who received the category of municipality called Naeva, with important fluvial port on the Guadalquivir. Later there changed his denomination thanks to the Roman family Ilia, who caused, provoked into the combination campus - ilia-ana (field of the family Ilia), to the current Cantillana.

The Arab Cantillana was surrounded by a wall of Roman epoch of that the Muslims made use and arranged with mortar walls and bricks. Town was conquered by Fernando III in 1247 who granted it to the Order of Santiago and later to the Archbishopric of Seville, for that for centuries the Archbishops from Sevilla were proprietors of . At her there stayed Reyes Católicos who granted him, as other monarches, important privileges and favors.

To see:

Tower of the Clock
Parish of Our Lady of the Asunción
Chapel of Jesus's Sweet Name and Holy Compassion
Chapel of San Bartolomé
Archaeological remains in the Avenue
Ancient Hospital of the Saints
Chapel of the Divine Shepherdess
Chapel of Ntra. Mrs. of the Solitude

The principal economic resource is given him by the agriculture and the products of garden, which are the cultivation that occupy major extensions. There are some industries, cooperatives of construction and familiar workshops of ceramics, carpentry and diverse crafts, being very famous the latticeworks making for the shawls of Manila

There is several fraternity, like that of the Divine Shepherdess and that of Asunción. Her Pontifical and Real Brotherhood of the Divine Shepherdess of the Souls was founded in 1720 by V. P. brother Isidoro de Sevilla, creator of the vocation pastoreña. The canonical establishment of the same one, dates from his foundation in the Parochial Church of Cantillana, where it finds the titular image of this one.

In Real Brotherhood of the Asunción and the Holiest Rosary testimonies of the fervor asuncionista mend to the period of theirs reconquest, since towards half-full the spring of the year 1247, when Unconquered and Holy King Fernando III of Castile, reconquered for the Christians this town, that, already in times visigóticos mention was worthy on the part of San Isidoro in his Etymologies, indicating it like a town of the most noble of the region. This saint was a monarch who scarcely brought in the population, dedicates the town and the Church newly founded to Santa Maria in the mystery of his Asunción Gloriosa.

Nuclei: The Amount, Train station, The Hayricks, The Hayricks - village of the Divine Shepherdess, Highway of Brans