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A single-naved church with crossing, covered with a half barrel vault with supporting arches and lunettes. All walls are decorated with paintings and rococo decoration, making it an impressive ensemble. It dates back to the 17th century. The main altarpiece is polychromed, carved wood, from 1740. The venerable icon of the town’s patron is found within this church: Nuestro Padre Jesús Nazareno, whose head is an 18th century Italian sculpture.   

The Las Descalzas convent is in the Plazuela del Marqués de las Torres and was founded in 1629 against Carmona town council’s wishes.It was not officially opened until 1748, the year that the town celebrated solemn fiestas for this reason.Currently a congregation of Discalced Augustinian Recollect nuns are accommodated in the convent. On the interior of the convent, its church has a rich décor typical of the Baroque era, featuring a façade with a double portal and tower.Its main altarpiece is interesting to see as it is unfinished.The sacristy’s Sagrario is also impressive, and is made from polychromed wood. During the Virgen de Gracia processions, the congregation would enter through the right door and leave through the left, passing in front of the choir where the nuns would sing canticles in her honour.

San Gil Abad parish church is located in the highest part of the town, on a typical Andalusian street, Calle San Antonio, in the San Gil neighbourhood, also known locally as Cerro del Alcázar. It is well suited to its setting, which exudes regional character and essence. Founded in the fifteenth century, in around the same time as Santiago church, San Gil is Écija’s oldest church (1479). Over the centuries, it has undergone several conversions and extensions, until almost the entire building was transformed into Baroque. The building’s general structure is preserved from the original construction: a rectangular floor plan with three naves, each with five sections, separated by pointed arches supported by pillars. The church was remodelled in the third quarter of the eighteenth century, when groin vaults replaced the naves’ primitive wooden roofs. Additional works were also executed at that time: the baptismal and animas chapels were built, the apse remodelled, and the sacristy erected. Between 1727 and 1730, a building of one single nave, consisting of five sections, was transversally erected.  The tower, located to the left of the portal on the west end, was built between 1777 and 1782 by Écijan master, Antonio Caballero, in line with […]

The Public Market (Former Convent of Saint Francisco) is located in Osuna’s Plaza Mayor. In the 19th century, it was moved to the cloisters belonging to the ancient Madre de Dios convent of Franciscan friars, founded in Osuna in 1531. In 1504, Inés Chirino, widow of the mayor, Luis Pernía, donated the Madre de Dios Church, part of the houses inhabited by the clergy of the Order of St Francis, so they could found convents. Subsequently, in 1551, it became one of the first major Educational Institutions of the province thanks to the existence of the Ancient University of Osuna and falling under the protection of the Dukes of Osuna. Finally, after the building collapsed in 1943, the main altarpiece was acquired by the Franciscan monks of San Buenaventura in Seville in around 1945. Today, it is the site of the Mercado de Abastos (wholesale market), with only the cloisters remaining, which is where the different stalls are situated. The sculptures, belongings and brotherhoods of Saint Francisco are found distributed among Osuna’s churches. The stalls in the market predominantly include fish, meat, fruit, vegetables and local products such as 1881 Extra Virgin Olive Oil. It is also possible to find […]

One of the town’s protected areas of greatest wealth shines in its own light, the Endorheic Area. Each year, its beautiful and shallow lakes are visited by species of birds that rest in Osuna on their migratory route. The lakes of Ballestera and Calderón Chica form the Nature Reserve of the Lantejuela Endorheic Complex, located in the north west of the municipality of Osuna. The area occupied by the Nature Reserve falls within the boundary between the Baetic Depression and the Sub-baetic units, where there was once a large endorheic area which spread across the Osuna and Ecija countryside. Lake Calderón Chica The high salinity which characterises its waters is one of the most striking values of the endorheic complex since it causes the colonisation of highly specialised species, of very restricted distribution, such as the aquatic macrophyte, Althenia Orientalis. A lake of scarce vegetation, formed by some isolated tamarisk stems together with some specimens of bulrushes, salicornias and other species adapted to conditions of high salinity. Lake Ballestera This lake also has severely degraded vegetation, preserving areas of reedbed and isolated tamarisk stems. Despite this, this lake is exceptionally important because of the presence of two aquatic plant species, […]

The necropolis is found in an open space, meaning that any visitor is able to access it every day for free. Many of its remains can be found in the local Archaeology Museum. If these caves had not been looted repetitively in the past, Osuna would have one of the best Roman Ceramic and Glasswork Museums in Spain. Some of the caves are separated into sections with vaulted ceilings, dug out of the rock, the walls decorated with birds. There are a large number of tombs in the ground. A series of more recent tombs can be seen from the enormous funebrial ensemble, the latest being from the Visigoth era.

San Francisco church is neoclassical and consists of three naves with a crossing, which preserves Gothic vaults from the time of its foundation, and a square chancel. It was originally a Gothic construction but such elements were masked during the Baroque period reforms. The initial construction stage ended during the last third of the fifteenth century. A series of works were conducted during the first half of the seventeenth century and the church was practically rebuilt in the mid-eighteenth century. The portal that connects the church to Plaza de España belongs to the seventeenth century. The eighteenth-century main altarpiece is considered one of the most important of Écijan Baroque. It consists of large estipites and features sculptures of Franciscan saints, such as Saint Francis de Assis, Saint Anthony of Padua, and a sculpture of Saint Dominic de Guzmán.

The Plaza de San Fernando, also known as the Plaza de Arriba, is today a wide urban space where locals meet, offering a comfortable setting to enjoy the town’s breeze, rest, wander and chat with friends. It is the heart of Carmona’s every day life, and has interestingly been so almost forever. During Roman times, this space was where the town’s two main streets -which formed Carmona’s urban network- crossed: the Cardo and the Decumanus. Furthermore, this space was not only the town’s physical centre, but also administrative, political and social centre, as that is where the forum was built. Throughout the centuries, this square has continued to be used for public acts; religious and social events have been held here, such as bullfighting, since the Modern Age. Nowadays, political and administrative matters are once more in the spotlight in this square, as the town hall is located in a former Jesuit college. It was constructed in 1621 by Pedro Sánchez, brother of the Order. The surrounding buildings in the Plaza de San Fernando boast great historic and artistic interest. There is a great variety of styles; however most the houses have one single noble floor, over the ground floor, […]

Valdehermoso palace is very close to Peñaflor palace. The important plateresque portal corresponds to the sixteenth-century Cordoban Renaissance. It stands in the corner of the spacious façade, above which sit robust viewing balconies supported by granite column shafts from the Roman era. Its façade is extraordinary and visitors are recommended to take a moment to admire it. The palace is a private property and is not open to the public.