Town hall

He emphasizes the church of St Martin, primitively Mudejar, but extended in the XVIIIth century, being added a ship. The bells body is crowned by one covered tiles capital. In his chapels and reredoses linens and sculptures appear fechables of the XVIIIth and XIXth centuries.

TRADITIONS:

Craft of Embroidery of the Shawl of Manila

Proceeding from the Philippines, there were arriving at the Port of Seville the galleons that they were dealing with the East Indies. In shipment of his wine vaults the silks and other works were appearing luxurious textiles that very quickly were appreciated by the refined one taste of the nobility.

In contemporary times the shawl is part of the wardrobe of women of the Town and urban bourgeoisie joins gradually, with major decorative profusion, to the trousseau of the women of the high and average one . At present it is considered to be a luxury article that heightens the feminine beauty in the numerous fairs and verbenas of Andalusia, Madrid, Aragon and Valencia.

Having turned into a pledge artisan of big popularity and prestige, some industrialists of Seville decide to replace them imports, making in situ the shawls, what does that it is necessary the search of feminine labor of many Towns Sevillian, principally of the near Aljarafe. The first ones “talleres ” arose in the thirties, in women's domiciles belonging to the small agrarian bourgeoisie, who knew them skills of the “bordado in target ” with that the feminine trousseaus were adorning the pledges of and those who would leave the above mentioned activity for to devote themselves to the shawls dressmaking. The embroidery to shawls hand is supported like an occupation exclusively feminine of character marginally, that only in few occasions, depending on fluctuations of the agricultural work, the principal one has become source of income of the familiar economy.

The economic changes have made to eliminate almost definitely embroidery in some Towns of the environment, remaining like activity important only in Villamanrique and Carrión of the Lawns, who has been able to raise the Shawl of Manila to the art category and it is that the care and fondness with which the needlewomen carrioneras apply to his work is reflected in the finished perfect one of the only work and unrepeatable, that extends his fully deserved reputation beyond the limits of the province and even of the country. (fte. delegation sevilla)