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The Council of Government has agreed to declare Well of Cultural Interest, with the category of Historical Set, Constantina old town. This locality placed in the Park Native of the North Saw of Seville, presents notable values landscape and important buildings of historical character and monumentally.
Constantina mends his origins to a called Celtic establishment Laconimurgi, which during the years of Roman colonization changed his name into that of Steadfastness Iulia, turning in an out-standing one strategic enclave so much for his geographical situation between the Vale of the Guadalquivir and Extremadura as for his abundant resources miners of copper and silver. But it is not up to the Islamic epoch when the city acquires his physiognomy of compact nucleus of population, with the first urban expansion in the still existing Quarter of Moorish lands, in the southern hillside of the hill of the castle.
In 1247 the population goes on to Christian domain and in 1478 it turns into realengo town after Reyes Católicos is donated by the House of Medina Sidonia to . Since then a gradual one produces to himself growth of the population who makes the advance of the limits possible of the hamlet towards the central and north areas. In parallel, a new nucleus is created in the opposite shore of the called Rio of Town, on that the Church of Our Lady is founded of Concepcion. This river bed, which precincts are dealing during the XVIth century, is canalized finally and all his trajectory channeled under ground in across the city center. In the XIXth century it occupies an area on the south and other one to the north, ends in which also new expansions produce during the XXth characterized for his marked linearity.
This process of urban development and the orographical characteristics of area has formed a plane parcelario of divisions much lengthened, consequence of the alignment of the houses following them margins of the river, with longitudinal routes crossed by others perpendicular that adapt themselves to the hillsides by means of ramps and stairs, generating a few irregular apples.
The predominant hamlet is integrated by single-family housings of very irregular plant, with rear courtyard, soberado and covering of tiles. Together with them they emphasize other houses of stately character or bourgeois, with central courtyard and fronts of styles neoclassicist and regionalist, that they concentrate concerning representative spaces like the squares of the Father Félix, Blas Infante, Spain and of the Plain of the Sun or the streets Inns, Butcher's shops, of the Saint Christ and of I weigh. Also related industrial facilities survive with the wine, the olive grove and the transformation of meat products. Between they stand out the factories of anisettes and several wine vaults familiar with presses and presses.
Monuments
As for the historical-monumental buildings, the most excellent is the Parochial Church of Our Lady of the Embodiment, temple Mudejar of the XIVth century which tower - front –característica of the profile of Constantina – was constructed by Hernán Ruiz in the XVIth. Also there are outstanding the churches of Our Father Jesus and of Concepcion and the convents of Santa Clara and of the Delayer, the last one turned at neighbors'. Of more recent epoch it is Town hall constructed in neoclassic style.
The declaration of Historical Set affects to the practical totality of the city center, with the only proviso of the last expansions of the XXth century in the rims of the north and south ends. Her surface that is protected is 174 hectares, including so much historical helmet as the surrounding natural way, big value landscape nuclei: The Baltrotas, Old oak grove, Source the Black, Source Reigns, Gully of the Rockrose, Them Highways |
