The small municipality of Castilleja of the Hill is located in the western sector of the county of Seville and in the oriental end of the district of the Aljarafe, appeared on the vega of the Guadalquivir. In 1.996 it had a population of 15.726 inhabitants.
Some historians relate the origin of this town with the city tartessia of Ucia. The Roman colonization of these lands is summed up in the fortified camp of it Castrates, name that the Visigoths conserve and that the Arab transform into the alquería of Castalla Talasana. It is conquered by Fernando III the Saint in 1.248, maintaining their agricultural character. In the second half of the XIII century, this territory is donated made out to order Military of Santiago that takes charge of repopulating it. After the war fraticida among Pedro I the Cruel one and Enrique of Trastamara, this last, proclaimed new Castilian king, gives the lands to his allied Guzmán, in the breast of whose family Castilleja remains until the XIX century.
The primitive nucleus is structured around Santiago's Square and the longitudinal axis of the Real street. Starting from him the later urban growth takes place, mainly for the demographic increase happened from half-filled of the XX century. Van new neighborhoods already embedded to the fabric arising existent, fundamentally in address west, because the vicinity of the municipal term of Beds impedes him the expansion toward the east. The growth begins to backs of Santiago's Square, where the labor" "neighborhood arises, and at the end of the Real street, with the Concepción's quarter. Later they are born for the south the quarter The Lighthouse, then separated from the rest of the town for olive groves, and after her, the urbanization The Crenels and the New quarter Seville, this last one in the end suroccidental of the term. In the last years they have left stuffing some of the existent urban holes in different areas of the urban helmet.
The Freeway of the Centennial V (TO-49) it crosses the term of Castilleja from this to west for their south third, dividing the nucleus in two clearly differentiated urban sectors. The structure viaria of the old helmet is executed without any previous outline. The longitudinal axis of the Real street (the voyage of the highway N-431) vertebra the net viaria of this to west, accompanied by a series of perpendicular axes that you/they connect the different sectors of the traditional nucleus. The construction has overcome the TO-49, with residential uses and educational equipment. The New quarter Seville is structured based on Juan Carlos I Avenue and it connects with the quarter The Lighthouse for the Avenue of the Unit.
The town occupies a great proportion of the municipal term at the moment, forming a continuous one urban with other neighboring populations: Gines (to the west), Bormujos (to the Southwest) and Tomares (to the southeast). The tipologías edificatorias is traditional in the urban helmet and in The Lighthouse, while in New Seville that concentrates around half of the municipal population, they are blocks in height. The nucleus presents an irregular morphology on the whole, with the persistence of some urban holes.
Among their constructions of artistic historical interest they highlight Santiago's church (XIV century, of Mudejar style), the Immaculate Concepción's church (XVII century), the Palacio of Salinas' Dukes, the old Palacio of the Dukes of Montpensier (XIX century, today transformed into private school) and the City council.
