In the suroriental end of the province of Seville, next to the confluence with the limits of the provinces of Cadiz and Malaga and in the heat of Sevillian South Mountain range is located the villa of Algámitas, to an altitude of 423 meters on the level of the sea and in a rich one and varied natural surroundings.
The total population of the municipality in 1.996, promoted 1,412 inhabitants, all of them residents in the only population center whereupon it counts the municipality.
The origins of this beautiful locality, it is possible that they go back to the period of Phoenician expansion by all the valley of the Guadalquivir, although and according to theses of Doctor Jero'nimo Pou, the Rock of Algámitas had to be seen lived already in prehistoric times given the existence of a good number of caverns adapted for such aim.
After the Arab period, the town was conquered by the Christian troops happening to depend on the Señorío de Pruna. In 1.482 it was gotten up to the County of Arcés, thus being until century XIX In spite of his remote foundation, Algámitas was depopulated during centuries returning to appear again like municipality in the middle of the century last during the reign of Isabel II.
It is not easy to determine the historical evolution of the urban nucleus, given to its characteristic urban structure and its relative youth like nucleus. It can solely be indicated that, from an original nucleus oriented basically of north to the south recent expansions have taken place towards the east around the most central zone of the original nucleus.
The morphology of the urban plot responds to the town-street model basically, with oriented linear structure in its central zone of north to the south, but that, given to the tortuosidades of the ways and own highways of the mountain range, the complejiza structure, when adapting the urban plot to the layout of the mentioned ways.
It is solely possible to emphasize between the architecture of the villa, the Church of the Sweet Name of Jesus, very transformed recently and with little artistic value, as much in which it is the own building like in which one talks about its furniture and imaginería conserved in the interior.
