The villa of Aguadulce is located in the Sevillian Countryside, next to the Highway A-92, between the nuclei of Osuna and Estepa. It occupies the terrains that descend from the mountain ranges from Stepa y Osuna, to the east of the province, with an altitude of 265 meters on the level of the sea and almost 97 kilometers from the capital Seville. Three areas of population conform the municipality, the main body and the small villages of the Cortijo del Marques and La Huerta del Colegio. The total population of the municipality in year 1,996 was 1,956 inhabitants.
The first historical data that are in records about this locality overcome to the Age of the Bronze. However, and according to all the indications, the origins as a population place is necessary to go back to an extensive roman villa of the republican time. Next to her, other bordering settlements come to add themselves to an old set that would be the hispanic-roman city of Ipora. Under the Arab domination it acquired the name of "Al-Ouad-Ul" (good river (Río Bueno), in reference to the quality of the water of the shore), of where it evolved to his present denomination. Towards 1,240, Fernando III takes the locality, culminating therefore the Reconquista in this zone. The last historical event of interest dates from century XVII, was when it became independent from Estepa, becoming a municipality.
The historical evolution of the urban structure of the nucleus of Aguadulce comes determined by a perfectly orthogonal original area, defined by two axes in direction North /South and East/West. The later expansions have been taken place in direction East and west, and whereas first of these they have continued with the orthogonal framework, but the recent ones, respond to a plot some disfigured and more anarchical.
The present urban structure, at least in the consolidated zones, responds for the typical example of town-street supported in a main roadway (the Avenue of Andalucía) that has been expanded leaning in that roadway and the parallels to this one. The tendency of present growth, in direction towards the east and the west, is seen clearly certain, by two great infrastructures to the north and the south of the nucleus, as they are the layout of the highway A-92, to the north, and the layout of the railroad, to the south.
From the monumental point of view, it is possible to emphasize the Church of San Bartholomew, constructed in XVIII century although with added and later reforms. The church displays three vaults separated by pillars on which arcs of half point rest. |