Town hall

The "Hill of the Iron", mining town that during the second decade of this century, did that the area was recovering his importance. The hand of the man has made an impressive scenery formed kárstico, where we can adrentarnos in an adventure between his big "rocks hollow", "tunnels" and surrounded with an attractive "vegetation".

It is a question of an area karstica, of lime rock rich in minerals of iron, which was exploited like mine from before the Romans until the middle of the XXth century, which now is declared a monument naturally by his geologic and landscape value and in that he practises the senderismo and the climb. The ancient mining town supports like village of few inhabitants dependent on San Nicolas of the Port. A railroad tracing was joining the Hill town of I shoe with the port of Seville where the mineral was embarked. With the iron extracted from this mine there were forged the grills that limit the fronts of the Real Factory of Tobacco (University) or her structure of the bridge of Elizabeth II (Bridge of Triana) on The Guadalquivir

There are ancient ocean floors rich in reefs and ancient sponges (arqueociátidos), turned into lime rock of the Cambrian period with plenty of iron ores. The later process of karstificación of this one lime rock turned the iron ores into oxides and hydroxides that settled in the cavities, forming seams which major concentration in iron justifies his mining development.

The mining development has been basically opencast, what there is modified to a great extent the relief of the area, destroying on quite the superficial areas where they usually appreciate the lapiaces karsticos. The tunnels that can be appreciated at present are basically for the routes for which the light trucks were extracting mineral of the mining area.