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Nucleus: Villanueva of the Rio, The Carbonal, them Mines of the Meeting

DECREE 35/2002, of February 5, for which he declares himself Well of Cultural interest, with the category of Historical Set, The Mines of the Meeting, situated in Villanueva of the Rio and You Mine (Seville).

Located in the spurs of the north saw of Seville in his I contact with the fertile plain, the historical set of the Mines of Meeting, in Villanueva of the Rio and You Mine, mining development is constituted for industrial, residential facilities and the equipments of that from the century XVH initiated the activity of extraction of the mineral coal. This development would come to his maximum yield during the years of the second half of the XIXth century and beginning of the XXth, moment from which there initiates the stage of decline that would go at the end of the mines in 1972. As a whole, in this enclave there distinguish spatially the different nuclei from population generated in winch wings wells of extraction, them common industrial and social facilities and the area of dumps and rafts of decanting, being provided with a location spatial concentrated and an establishment typology much in consonance with the premises of the industrial town planning. Being in the left margin of the Bank of the Huéznar, the arrangement of busy soil presents an enclave of semicircular form in which, forced by the slopes towards the river bed, the roads more important get ready parallel to the river.

The quarter Confidence is the first working town that begins to to be constructed between the year 1896 and 1900 to replace the primitive ones barracks. Between 1890 and 1900 those of Velarde get up and Steadfastness, for drillers and horse-trainers, constructed concerning ancient wells of the same name. The last ones to be built would be those of Progress, Hill, Balbo and Transaal, all of 1935, corresponding to a typology of working quarter constituted for streets and single-family housings of only one plant and courtyard or plurifamiliares of one or two apartments, realized in brick with wooden roofs, hurdle and curved tile. In the set of spaces destined for the habitability personnel and managers of San Fernando-Cabrerizas emphasize the towns for and the quarter of New houses. The first one constituted by housings for charges and personnel of average type who, with cellar for stores and first floor for establishments and modules of room of character single-family, compose a quadrangular set. The second one constructs in the decade of 1920 lodging the real estate of major importance edificatoria and artistic destined to high places housings charges and qualified personnel. Between them he emphasizes the House of Direction, a house of plant squared in castellated tower on garden and vain refences with false canopies, the house of the engineer chief, another house built with factory of brick and reinforcements of chairs, which he emphasizes for the marked slope of his roofs and the motives of modernist character incorporated into the closings of arches of the gallery, opened for an interesting garden of French type that it precedes the housing. The red and the yellow one emphasizes the House of the Director Técnico for the bicromía between the colors of materials used in the edges and in the threads of the arches that the vain ones form.

Between these built-up areas community services find the buildings of , like the ancient school, a building of big interest in his architectural configuration, which presents a body centrally with front of very harmonic composition for the joint of his vain ones as a whole with the rest of the decorative elements, like the frames and the balusters of the top balcony. To both sides of this central body develop each wings opened to rear courtyard by means of wide galleries with arcades of half a point on columns of smelting raised in pedestals of brick that support parapets realized the same way in cast iron. In the vain geminados emphasize front with brick frames cut away. Other of the out-standing real estate is the church, constructed in 1927, it is a ship transformed for such an end to which two bodies near to the head have been leaned forming one plant of Latin cross. On this structure others have added decorative elements as the rose window of neogothic style and her cresting neorrenacentista of the front and the Mudejar front with Renaissance decoration, reply of the existing one in the convent Sevillian of Santa Paula. Other real estate and common spaces are Theater - cinema, the Hospital, the Company store, the Slaughterhouse Butcher's shop and Park of the square of Spain.

There complete the dependencies on this mining set the rest of industrial facilities centred concerning the wells of extraction number 4, 5 and 7. The first, active one from 1880 until 1908, stays from the date of his closing enabled like principal entry of the wooden supplying for the entibación, I think for pack animals, devices of starter and orifice of ventilation. In this well a room existed with three motor pumps of sewer pipe and one machine of extraction of the French mark "Bietrix counting in his entry with a castillete and in his proximities a set of industrial facilities that present a type of arquitectora rationalist devoid of embellishment, in which they stand out like lines compositivas that of the proper structural elements of armors of the walls and covering. In his precincts there was installed the Central Office of Direction of Interior, in which it was realized the Map Thiéry, a wall painting of big proportions in to the one that represents a general plane of works of the basin mining.

The well number 5 was opened between the year 1893 and 1898 in winch to which there is implanted a power plant, which was counting with one distribution building inspired by the towers of the architecture military man of Gothic epoch, with ogival castellated and vain turrets with mullions that at present one of the modality supposes monumental of major architectural entity of the set; you sift coal laundry rooms; the hoist, in which there installed a machine to itself of steam of the mark Bollineky in 1922; the cauldrons rooms, in that were finding machines of the mark "Babcok Wilcos"; the building of sewer pipe bombs "Kaselowsky; the deposits of "Schlamms" and two chimneys, the raised one in 1896 and other one, that of major size, constructed in 1920. The well number 7 counts with a series of facilities, like water well, hoist and house of machine, the distribution turret of energy, the power plant and them ships of workshops, in which the building typology is the ship the only with covering of metallic fences to two waters and walls of brick I dress and cement simulating hewing of stone tackles....