The region of the Aljarafe exhibits one of its more representative municipalities in Benacazón, on the valley of the Guadiamar and with an altitude of 113 meters. Some 23 kilometers separate it of the capital in a municipal term that understands besides the main nucleus, the Estates of Castilleja of Talhara and Gelo.
The total population of the municipality in 1.996, elevated 4.936 inhabitants, the majority of which concentrate on the main nucleus.
They went the Romen who they founded the then rural village of Benacazón, test of which are the remainders found of buildings, tiles and bricks mixed with the land of work. Nevertheless the origin of their present name owes to the Arabian epoch, when should exist some Arab main apellidado Casum that established the denomination of Ben Casum. With the Reconquest, the king Fernando III decided to change its name by that of Ambush that did not jell among the population that maintained the Arabian denomination until deriving to its present name. Under the reign of Alfonso X the alquería was judged with its fields to older Mrs Arias and al Bishop Mr. Remondo.
Past the centuries, in 1.419, Benacazón was yielded the family Portocarrero, with what the previous one alquería passes to be constituted like Village and Señorío of Benacazón. The señorío remained in the hands of the family Pantoja toward 1.553, under the one that continued to 1.810.
Benacazón presents a clearly lineal structure supported in the western axis - this that establishes the crossing of the highway of Umbrete to Aznalcázar. In the center, approximately, of this, an axis perpendicular al previous articulates in its environment to a small number of apples with north direction - south. It is in this zone, in which the native nucleus of the village can be established, al to be located here the most representative buildings of the same one. The subsequent expansions have developed being supported in the axis this - western, toward both directions, what has reinforced the lineal character of the urban plot, As exception to the previous thing, we will indicate the expansions that have been produced al northwest of the nucleus being supported in the highway that conducts to Sanlúcar the biggest and al link with the Autovía TO-49 Seville - Huelva.
Churches and ermitas compose the monumental bulwark of Benacazón. Among these constructions emphasizes the temple of Holy María of the Snows, old church mudéjar to which a lateral ship in the century was added XVII and a century was reformed later. Another church, that of Edge Cross, is in its greater part of new construction although preserve a small altarpiece of 1.660, perhaps originating in the comulgatorio of a convent of nuns.
In the highway of link with Aznalcázar is found the ermita of Castilleja of Talhara, very next al town, work mudéjar of the century XIV. A second one ermita, that of Gelo is located on the outskirts of the urban helmet in a section understood among Bollullos of the Mitación and Aznalcázar. It is likewise mudéjar and dates of the century XV.
