History of La Algaba

The origins of the nucleus are located in the preRoman time when the heirs of the civilization tartesia founded the Balbibilis Turdetana. Its present denomination comes from the Al-Gaba Arab, term equivalent to "forest". This name stayed in the days of Don Fadrique, to that yes assigned the population after Reconquista well, after its death, happened to be able real. Felipe II was who created the Marquesado of the Algaba to offset the economic shortage of his Property, being holds the villa to this Señorío until the century XIX in which its Constitutional City council was constituted.

The original nucleus of the population is constituted by an enclosure walled ample for the characteristics of the population and that has been surpassed by the construction recently. Thus, next to the limits of the traditional helmet, districts constructed in the decades of the 50, 60 and 70 are located, tending the recent constructions but (decades of 80 and 90) to occupy the located agricultural spaces between 3 physical limits that delimit the urban space clearly, that is: the Guadalquivir river, 431 highway of local or regional importance and the Santiponce highway - the Algaba.

The present urban plot, does not present/display a defined structure clearly, although several radial axes that arise from the edge of the traditional helmet, from that can be distinguished has structured the growth of the city. But the clear one of these axes is the one that goes towards the north, from as the recent expansions have been organized but (surroundings of bullring).

The monumental semblante of the Algaba shows two main buildings, the Church of Santa Maria of Snows, of gothic-mude'jar style and that contains beautiful vaults of cruise, and the Tower of the Guzmanes that, with a height of 27 meters, was conceived like defensive construction there by century XV. Three plants connected by stairs the set of windows is covered with vaults, being the most interesting part from the stylistic point of view: of reduced arc, of nose, trilobuladas or polilobuladas. The almenado closing crowns this conserved good located monument right in the center traditional of the nucleus.

Finally, it is to indicate, the hermitage of the Conception, in the district of the Aral, that totally was recovered in 1.929 and which it conserves interesting sculptures like the one of the Virgin of the Conception, of the century XVIII, and the one of San jOse, pertaining to the school of Mountain Martinez.

Tourism

Monuments

Churches

This shield is formed with the elements that remember their history. Thus, the two branches of laurel are memories of the grown forests that it had in time of the Arabs; the tower is the one of the Guzmanes, maximum architectonic building of the villa, and the marquesal crown in memory of the time of its marquesado.
In field of azur: Two gold boilers jaqueadas and saber, placed in wood, gringoladas each one of them of seven sierpes of sinople, four and three; bordura of silver loaded of eight ermines, saber.
In silver field: An Arab, square Tower almenada, mazonada of saber and closed, with the door diestrada with respect to the main axis of the tower, and laid down of two branches of laurel that are crossed in the end.
To the timbre: Marquesal crown.