Town hall

Founded in 1265, for 150 Catalans, to whom of otorgó the Jurisdiction of Seville, in areas transferred by the king Alfonso X of Castile. These Catalans had come with Fernando III during the conquest of Seville in 1248.

The Guadalquivir is the fundamental element of Coria of the Rio. In winch to him has turned, and keeps on turning his history, his activities, traditional, his wealths

In the year 1614, a Japanese mission directed by the Samurai Tsunenaga Hasekura and for the Franciscan Brother Luis Sotelo they went sent to Europe by order of Masamune Date, feudal master of Sendai, with the mission to meet with king Felipe III and the Pope Pablo V. Several of the members of the above mentioned mission, they decided to remain in Colaugh at the Rio.

This one the base of the hypothesis is about the possible origin of a surname Japan that more than 300 persons take at present like the first surname and approximately 250 persons as the second surname. These facts are dated in documents of the year 1622, after arrival of the Japanese mission to Coria of the Rio, which preserve in the File of the Indies and in which one appears for the first time reference to this surname.

Blas Infante Pérez de Vargas (You will marry, Malaga, on July 5, 1885- On August 11, 1936). Politician, ideologist, and Spanish writer, maximum exponent of the andalusianism.

Infante alternated the tasks of notary, historian, anthropologist, musicologist, writer and journalist, in addition to being a voracious reader and big lecturer. 14 works of his were edited and he went so far as to write more than 3000 manuscripts.

The Parliament of Andalusia passed of unanimous form in 1983 Preamble for the Statute of Autonomy for Andalusia, where recognizes Blas Infante as as "a Father of the Andalusian Homeland".

The Foundation Center of Andalusian Studies of the Meeting of Andalusia, he acquired in 2001 the house of Blas Infante in Coria of the Rio for to turn at home museum museum as historical and cultural patrimony Andalusian.

It is honored every year in the commemoration of the Day of Andalusia on February 28.

Her House of Blas Infante in Coria of the Rio is one of the real estate with major symbolic importance for the contemporary history of Andalusia. In the year 2001 the Meeting of Andalusia acquired the building and the adjacent areas to the Infante's heirs, with target to bring this historical figure over to all the Andalusians. set was designed by the same Infante and it was here where it happened his last days before being shot in August, 1936. The content of this web page tries to bring over to the Andalusians not only architectural set of the house and the figure of Blas Infante, but also the rich and varied patrimony of the house and a detailed fund documentary of big interest to study in depth the knowledge of acts and the Infante's thought.

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