In the most Eastern end of the province of Seville, within the set of the Sevillian South Mountain range and, in particular, in the region of the Steppe Mountain range, one is located the Dark-brown municipality of of Steppe, supported in the route of connection between the provinces of Seville and Malaga.

One treats, without a doubt, of one of the municipalities with smaller population of the province, since this one was amounted in 1.996 in 741 inhabitants. All of them are grouped in the main body, that dista 116 kilometers of the capital and is located to a 447 altitude of mts. on the level of the sea.

The origin of the nucleus like stable population, can be located in the period of the Roman colonization, time at which Lauro (name whereupon baptized the Romans) was different from the different colonial populations, to the being its main function the one of city of leisure. It, next to their multiple relations with the seats of Ostippo and Ventippo, granted a period to him of great relevance in their surroundings. After a time of decay during the later years, the Muslims went who came to rehabilitate their splendor as of century VIII, turning it an important villa, in which the main activity was agriculture. With the arrival of the Christians, he was inserted in the dowry of the Steppe properties, being therefore, under the safekeeping of the Military order of Santiago until Felipe II, in the middle of century XVI, gave it Marquess to the first of this city, a relative of who, Juan of Cordova, he lived in Dark-brown with which the villa began to obtain more power until its independence.

It is very difficult to need the historical evolution the urban nucleus of Dark-brown of Steppe, since to a small compact nucleus, with typical urban structure of town-street oriented of north to the south, to small expansions to the southwest and the west, this one last consisting of one communitarian equipment, and a set of scattered constructions are added to him that extend in northeast direction from the nucleus to the layout of the A-92 Railcar. It is without a doubt, the character eminently agriculturist of this nucleus the one that has formed the dispersed structure of the nucleus in its northeast zone, when being located the houses in the small parcels of irrigated land of the surroundings of the villa.

From the monumental point of view, it solely is to emphasize, the church of San Miguel, that is a building of a single ship covered with a vault with tube and more modern other in the left flank. The temple could date towards end of century XVIII, although their later reforms are abundant.