The small municipality of Castilleja of Guzmán 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 692 inhabitants.
The origin of this town is in a Roman military camp (it castrates), around which you/they grouped some housings. During the Muslim dominance, Castalla becomes an alquería whose tenants cultivate the surrounding lands, although it maintains the strategic function for its high position, as natural watchtower to prevent possible Norman or Castilian attacks. The terrible commander Almanzor ends up staying in an eventual way in some palace located later in the same busy location by the marquises of Castilleja. After their Christian conquest in the king's times Fernando III the Saint (1.248), the town belongs made out to order Military of Santiago, of which becomes independent during the XIV century. During several centuries he/she lives under the jurisdiction of the Guzmanes (that provide him their current last name) until the breakup of the dominions in the XIX century.
The urban nucleus settles in a topographical area of cornice, in the high part of the term, among the Hill Blanco and that of Santa Brígida, in the called place Montelirios. The topography of the location is very moved, with about 100 meters of difference of altitude among its ends this and this. The existence of important slopes in the most oriental sector disables the construction.
The urban plot has its origin in the construction of the Palacio of the Guzmanes, leaning on in the one on the way to connection among this, the Divine Shepherdess's Treasury (of the same proprietors) and other adjacent properties. He/she goes arising a small populational establishment, constituted by two arrays of houses to both sides of the one mentioned road that little by little becomes in the Real street, the voyage of the regional highway Bed-Albaida of the Aljarafe. The initial situation has not varied until few years ago in that the urban nucleus continued being compound for embedded housings, supported in both riverbanks of the voyage, having only arisen a parallel street to her, and counting as only space free with the square located next to the same one. Recently an amplification of the urban helmet has taken place toward the south-Southwest (between the traditional nucleus and the new built variant to surround the population) and toward the north, in both cases with a prevalence of the housings embedded unifamiliares.
The urban structure of Castilleja is very simple and reduced, having as conditions the old voyage to its step for the center of the helmet, the new variant and the uneven topography of the land. At the present time, the Palacio has been located in the northeast end of the town, occupying a similar surface to that of the traditional nucleus. The nucleus has been developed in more measure to the south and the west of the Real street.
Among their constructions of artistic historical interest San Benito's church, the Divine Shepherdess's Treasury and the Palacio of the Guzmanes highlight (XVII-XVIII centuries, today university bigger school).
