Town hall

The origin of the current town must date of Roman times. Under the Muslims it had major importance, having resided in her during some time the commander Almanzor.

In the XIIIth century, after the conquest it christens, happens to be a property of the Order of Santiago, to become independent in the centuries following. Later it has been under the jurisdiction of the counts of Olive groves (Guzmanes), existing steadfastness of which it was already Town hall in 1.500.

To stand out: The Treasury Department of the Shepherdess, built in the XVIII.th century:

THE MEETING PROTECTS LIKE MONUMENT THE ANTIGUA DIVINE TREASURY DEPARTMENT SHEPHERDESS OF CASTILLEJA OF GUZMÁN

The Council of Government has agreed today to declare Well of Interest Cultural, with the category of Monument, the Divine Treasury Department Shepherdess, placed in Castilleja de Guzmán (Seville) and occupied at present for the Biggest School of Santa Maria of the Good Air.

After the intervention carried out in 1927 by Gabriel Lupiáńez Gely, this ancient olive agricultural complex turned into one of the most significant examples of the so called architecture of Sevillian regionalism. The gardens were designed by Jean Claude Nicolás Forestier, out-standing teacher of the modern gardening that realized in the Divine Shepherdess his last work in Spain.

The principal front of the set is formed by a high wall where there is opened the big semicircular arch of the entry, crowned by the shield of the counts of Castilleja de Guzmán. Inside they emphasize the courtyards that arrange the different dependencies, someone of which they are decorated with sockets and plasterings, as the historicist style of Renaissance and baroque tradition. Between there stand out these dependencies the chapel, the room of attention to public and the body of the principal stairs.

Also counterweight includes in the Good of Cultural Interest the tower , at present isolated of the building and the only rest nominally of the oil-mill belonging to the ancient ranch built in the XVIIIth century. Of rectangular plant and massive body, this construction counts with a showy curvilinear auction of decorative elements.

Finally, concerning the monument protection has delimited an environment of attending to his place in a rustic area of big to landscape value bordering to the city center. This delimitation includes a stretch of the ancient highway of Seville, the square of San Benedictine and the Real streets and Virgin of the Pains.

The Palace of the Counts of Castilleja or Olive groves, constructed between the XVIIth and XVIIIth centuries, with later transformations. At present it is a university residence of neo-Mudejar style.

Church of San Benito, realized at the beginning of century, which works of art are of big interest and date of the XVIIth and XVIIIth centuries.

The urban Castilleja structure is very simple and limited, taking the ancient passage as determinants to his step for center of the helmet, the new variant and the eventful topography of area. At present, the Palace has remained placed in extreme North-East of the locality, occupying a similar surface to that of the traditional nucleus. The nucleus has developed in major measurement on the south and to the west of the Real street