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It is one of the cities of major ancestry historically of the province. His different denominations proclaim role of the city in the different invasions. His name is of root Semite "KAR" who means city and Phoenician foundation is explained by his probable one . The Romans called her "CARMO", and the Arabs "QARMUNA".
It is a question of a city with a long history that begins with establishments in the prehistory and they continue with the different ones stages of the history.
It is necessary to emphasize the Roman and Moslem archaeological remains, of that there preserve a necropolis and an amphitheater Romans and the Door of Seville and Door of Cordova formed by a Roman miscellany and later cultures, like the Almohad one for the first and neoclassic one for the second one.
In more modern epochs it is necessary to emphasize the churches that populate it city, such as the Prioral of Santa Maria, of Gothic style, San Pedro, baroque, San Felipe of Mudejar style, etc
MONUMENTS TO BE EMPHASIZED:
Town hall
You marry Palaces several
Source of the Lions
Square of Supplies
Square of San Fernando
Roman bridge
Convent of the Concepcion
Convent of Santa Clara
Church of San Bartolomé
Church of San Blas
Church of San Felipe
Church of San Pedro
Church of Santiago
Church of the Salvador
Prioral of Santa Maria
Citadels of the Door of Seville and of King Don Pedro
Wall
Doors of Cordova and of Seville
Amphitheater and Roman necropolis
PERMANENT COLLECTION OF THE PRIORAL OF SANTA MARIA
This exhibition gathers more than 150 pieces of gold work, embroidery, literature, painting and sculpture of different epochs and styles that were leaving his trace in the parish of Santa Maria along of eight centuries.
Of interest:
Christ de los Desamparados
Sword of San Ignacio of Loyola
Linen of the Asunción of Pedro Bocanegra of 1665
Fronts of evangeliario the only pieces realized concerning 1400
Ministry of Zurbarán
Museum of the City announces the Carmona history to us from the origins (a million years ago) up to the actuality.
We can see archaeological remains of the periods Paleolithic, calcolítico, turdetano or andalusí, but the most important are them remains tartésicos (Glasses of Saltillo) and Romans.
The works of rehabilitation of the House Marquess of the Towers for his adaptation to museum, they have allowed to document so much the origin of house in the XVIth century as later transformations in the century XVIII.
Nuclei: Camposol, Carmona, Low Gully, Hills of the Hill, Fawn, The Thicket, The Roebuck, The Prop, The Pine, The Help, The Soldier, Entrearroyos, East Is My Wealth, Guadajoz, The Trap, La Hind, La Giralda, The Key, The Matallana, The Nuns, The Three Palm trees, Three Roses, The Farmhouses of the Hill, The Fruit trees of Hill, The Riders, The Grandchildren, Pradollano, San Bernardo, San Francisco de Raso Espejo, Santa Fe, Santaella de Fátima, Torrelaguna, Torrepalma, Valsequillo, Low Large window, Old Vineyards (The Sand), Vírgen of Araceli |