History of Dos Hermanas
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The municipality of Dos Sisters is located in the quadrant suroccidental of the county of Seville, being bordering with the term of the capital. It occupies the flat lands located at the end of the one it escarps of the Alcores, there where they melt with the Countryside. In 1.996 it had a population of 91.138 inhabitants, most of which it resided in the main nucleus. Among the remaining entities of population of the term they highlight Source of the King and the urbanization Montequinto that works as city-bedroom of the capital.

The man's presence in these lands goes back until times of the turdetanos, the population's of Orippo that reached great importance under the Roman domain founders and that he/she lived a long period of decadence during the Visigothic dominances and Arabic (Al-Mudain). The Christian conquest of this region carries out it Fernando's troops III by the middle of the XIII century. In the Distribution of Seville, the Muslim alquerías passes at the hands of the conquerors in donadíos form and tenements. In some of these villages they are built tower-strong that transform in urban establishments with posteriority. It is the case of the modest fortified farm of Dos Sisters that is able to be developed to be sufficiently far from the river so that they don't affect him their permanent ones grown and in the crossing of the road Seville-Cádiz with those that drive to The Alcores, at Fifth and Alcalá of Guadaira. A tradition also exists according to which played a part to the gentleman leonés Gonzalo Nazareno in the mentioned Distribution, father or family of the sisters Elvira and Estefanía that found in a grotto a cross and Santa Ana's image and that they decided to erect in her a chapel. This place, a new non coincident establishment with that of Orippo and that until then it had only been an alquería, he/she would have gone congregating inhabitants little by little until becoming a town.

The main nucleus settles on an almost flat land of alluvial formation, in the area that the Lacus should occupy Ligustinus. The origin of the location is in an agrarian exploitation with the structure of the Muslim alquerías, but that it would be founded by the Christian by the middle of the XIV century in the crossing of the current streets Tide (Santa María Magdalena) and Canon, in the vicinity of the square where today the City council and the Parochial Church are located.

The urban growth is carried out along the street Santa María Magdalena, from the square located to the east until the street San José to the west, generating toward the north in a first schemes apples lengthened in wedge form, looking for the streets the intersection of the roads of Seville and of Fifth, point in which will finish being created the Square of the Sandbank. As the urbanization moves away from the square, the apples are more rectangular, with perpendicular streets to the generating axis. Toward the south, and also leaving of Santa María Magdalena, the street Antonia Díaz describes a wide curve until returning to the square, for what the growth should be organized with the help of oblique apples guided toward the southeast.

During some time the development prevails along the axis this-west, for the importance of the nucleus of the Serrezuela that was similar at the beginning of the XV century to that of Dos Sisters. The on the way to union with this town facilitated the urban development toward the west, at the time that the old road of Seville-Cádiz facilitated the growth toward the southeast. In the continuous XVIII and XIX centuries the same process and the square of the Constitution is believed.

In the first half of the XX century, the demographic growth is continuous but moderate. The urban establishments take place along the one on the way to Cádiz, prolonging the Real street and generating a lineal development toward the southeast. At the time, an outlying development takes place in the western border, along the streets Isaac Pear tree and the current Avenue of Andalusia, and three perpendicular urban wedges are formalized to this circumvallation axis that you/they coincide with the streets Luis of Ibarra (connection with the highway Madrid-Cádiz), Christopher Columbus (old on the way to the Serrezuela) and Velázquez (parallel to the railroad line in its north tract). These developments are welded perfectly to the urban helmet and they follow the axes of historical growth.

In the last years an enormous demographic growth has taken place, due to the metropolitan effect of Seville, the vicinity of the Port, the good topographical conditions for the construction and the success of the industrial establishments. Such a growth has been impossible to order urbanísticamente in a coherent way, being solved with the multiplication of constructions along the old roads, in most of the not well connected cases with the urban center, with tipologías of blocks the nearest and unifamiliares the far away. Santa Ana's quarters, San Hermenegildo and Virgin of the Reyes have arisen this way toward the north, toward the southeast that of Ibarburu and to the west, for where the urbanization arrives until the Freeway Seville-Cádiz, those of Virgin of the Rocío, Our Mrs. of the Help, Red Sale, The Palmarillo, San Pablo or City Blanca. The final result is a mosaic of urbanizations in form of dispersed conurbation, with big interior holes.

The road of the railroad, built in northwest-southeast address, constitutes an artificial barrier that hinders the urban growth toward the north and northeast, although establishments have also arisen to the other side of her, in the initial tracts of the roads of Fifth and of Alcalá of Guadaira: San Hilario, The Currency, The Infantas, Federico May, Entrenaranjos, etc. The urbanizations of housings existent unifamiliares to the other side of the freeway, in the end west of the town, work to each other as independent units, without urban continuity, and completely separated from the central nucleus for this communication road. They are The Motilla, The Castle, The Treasury, Park Giralda, Viñachica, Montelirio, etc.

AYTO. DE DOS HERMANAS
Square of the Constitution, 1
41700 - DOS HERMANAS
Tlf.: 95 - 491.95.00/01/02
Fax: 95 - 591.95.25
email: doshermanas@dipusevilla.es
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I shield cut:

First: Of azure, with "two women" with medieval, young robe that you/they have the connected hands.
Second: A "castle of gold" in gules field

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It "crowns real medieval."

Surface: 160 Km²
It distances to the provincial capital: 10 kms.
Alt. on the level of the sea: 42 ms.
Population: 103.282 p.
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