The municipality of Aznalcóllar is located in the zone of transition among the region of the Aljarafe and the North Saw, in the extreme westerner of the province of Seville, being adjacent with that of Huelva. In 1.996 counted on a population of 5.812 inhabitants.
Archaeological remainders exist that show the step of the Iberian cultures by these lands. The rich silver mines of Itucci already were taken advantage of for the Romen. Their name proceeds of the Arabian term Hanz Al-Kollar, that signifies "precinct walled", by virtue of the whose Moslem fortress remainders are located al north of the town. It is conquered by Fernando III the Saint in 1.247.
The urban nucleus is situated in the old road that conducts from Seville to Riotinto, on a solar one of moved topography. By the north surround it the river bed of the stream Cañaveroso and, further, a mountainous chain in which emphasize the Hill Wind (al northeastern) the Large Table (al northwest) and the Hill of the Castle (al north).
The origin and the historic evolution of the settlement have been always related to the mining exploitation. The conquering Christians write down in a hill, on the solar one occupied by the Moslem fortress, that should remain enough destroyed. The first urban expansion himself is not produced to the century XVIII. The direction of growth continues the river bed set by the topography, beginning with the building of the south skirt of the hill of the Castle, originating the one that still New Neighborhood is called, and continuing along the road of Seville.
In the century XIX, Aznalcóllar is transformed into an authentic urban nucleus, because of the industrial revolution and al boom of the mining industry. In 1.876 they are put in exploitation the rich nurseries of pirita of copper. In the last decade of said century and in the two first of the century XX a true demographic explosion is produced, that originates an important enlargement of the urban nucleus, with a change in the direction of the growth. Now they are the roads of the mines the ones that act like axes computers of the plot: toward the west, continuing the existing topographical only walkway al south of the Large Table, by which reflects the road that conducts to Riotinto; and toward the east the envelope the road of Gerena the one that conducts to the mines of the term (situated to two kms), along the street today still calledThe Mine.
During the 60 s, a certain one is produced regresión demographic, what in the urban development aspect has avoided that in Aznalcóllar are found built peripheral neighborhoods of blocks. Since 1.975, the activity generated by the Andalusian business of Piritas (Group Boliden since 1.987) has given a strong impulse to the local economy. The repercussion to urban level has not been important, continuing the historic guidelines of growth. New developments toward the south are produced, among the roads of Gerena and of Sanlúcar, the zone of greater aptitude to be urbanizada.
In spite of being written down on a topography moved and to have a markedly mining character, is a matter of an urban nucleus with a homogeneous plot, perhaps by to have developed above all to ends of the century XIX and principles of the XX in base to the theoretical formulae of them widen: large apples and of enough forms regulate.
Among the artistic historic buildings of interest emphasize the Church of Our Lady of the Consolation (century XVIII), the chapel of the Cemetery (of style mudéjar), the chapels of the upper Cross and the Cross of Down, the old convent of the Basilios and the cortijo of Garci-Bravo.
