The municipality of The Pedroso is located in the northern sector of the county of Seville, belonging to the Sierra North district. It leaves of their term it is included in the environment of the Natural Park of the same name. Their population in 1.996 ascended 2.403 inhabitants.
This mountain town seems to be a foundation of Iberian time with later reformations in the Roman period. These last ones denominate it Augustobriga, exploiting the mineral wealth of their environment (of iron). Another Latin town located in this area is Mulva Munigua. In Muslim time their main function changes, passing of being mineral producer to become defensive square. For it, it is fortified with walls and a castle, located in the high part of the town, what doesn't avoid that it is conquered by the Christian by the middle of the XIII century. Starting from that moment, it is repopulated with people coming from Castile, León and Galicia, its urban development that one of its moments of maximum splendor reaches in the XVI century beginning.
The urban nucleus presents a quite homogeneous and rounded morphology on the whole, with irregular layout of its streets (you curve) and apples. It is located in the crossing of several highways: for the south the C-433, for the northwest the YOU-195 and for the this-southeast one the YOU-190
Among their constructions of artistic historical interest they highlight the church of Our Mrs. of Consolation and the hermitage of the Virgin of the Thorn (of Mudejar style).
