The municipal term of Almensilla is located al southwestern of the province of Seville, in the southern limit of the Region of the Aljarafe, very near the zone of transition with The Marshes.

It covers the term a surface of 1.440 you Have. and its total population in 1.996 was situated in 2.232 inhabitants. It counts on an only nucleus of Population, though, in the limit with the neighboring term of Palomares of the River have gone developing several urbanizations of second residences that, currently, are found in urban development process of legalization.

Though indications exist that seem to indicate the Roman origin of the village, this has documented its origin in the Arabian epoch in which was a matter of an "alquería" property of Saws-al-mensi, an Arab settled in the term and of the one that took its present name. It given the enormous wealth in subterranean water that possessed, the Arabs knew taking advantage of and thus its location is explained, therefore assured the irrigation and the provision of water to its primitive inhabitants. It is in the year 1.837 when the locality is segregated of Palomares of the River, of the one that depended up till then.

The native nucleus of the village is situated among the Church and the City Hall and a reduced perimeter in its more immediate environment. The subsequent expansions have been produced being supported in the main ways of communication that connect the urban nucleus with the remainder of the of their environment.

In this way, the present urban structure, presents a basically orthogonal structure, supported in three road main (Highway to Bormujos, Highway to Seville and Street of the Field), having produced the residential but recent expansions in direction to Seville.

The economic base of the village has been traditionally the cultivation of the olive grove, though it has not supposed the establishment in the nucleus of industries derived from the olive grove in sufficient number as to determine the urban structure of the village. The future development of this is going to come determined by the influence of the capital that will tend becoming a municipality of its metropolitan area of similar characteristics to other of its environment.

Among the monuments of Almensilla is to emphasize the Church Parroquial of Our Lady of the Old one, that dates of the century XVII and is carried out in style mudéjar, although the decisive restorations and added carried out during the centuries XVIII and XIX led to the practical transformation of this precinct. Are likewise worthy of reseñar the estates of San Antonio and The Fifth, the first one of which seems to be of the native of the town.