Town hall

The urban framework of Saint John, awfully planned, consists of three differentiated areas: Slum (nucleus primitive), much degraded although with very favorable perspectives for his situation along with the Guadalquivir and his excellent communications; District of Loreto, degraded and badly connected although it has improved his situation since the Town hall the recepcionó and it stopped being a military district; and finally the High, most extensive Quarter and where commerce, banks and services are located. Saint John has one agreeable climate, more fresh than Seville in summer due to his altitude; his inhabitants are usually the Town of middle class that works in the capital generally. The new urban developments have been attracted to by nations who come from Seville looking for the quality of life that the Aljarafe offers .

The fortitude that gave to the name place was constructed between 1196 and 1197 for order of Almohad Yacub Almanzor, being together with castle triana the "key of the Axarafe". After order of Fernando III was conquered for , it was atorgada because of it to leaders and the Town of a sea. The castle went on to hands of the Order miliar from Saint John in 1248, and this donation was confirmed in Seville at the end of 1253. To the beginning of the XVth century this castle, already ruinous it was occupied for Third order to exercise his religious activity on the population and You will Take. During the XVth, XVIth and XVIIth centuries, Saint John is an enclave of secular dominion and he emphasizes, already since then, for his magnificent ones olive groves

To visit:

Chapel of 'Our Lady of the Rosary
Church of the Sacred Hearts
Church of Saint John Bautista
Almohad walls