The municipality of Montellano is located in the southern end of the province of Seville, being bordering with the one of Cadiz and belonging to the region of the South Mountain range. In 1.996 it had a population of 7,064 inhabitants.
The first slumses in these earth go back until the Age of the Bronze, before they this way passed different civilizations (between which they honor the Phoenician and the Roman). After the dark period visigodo, the Muslims recover the poblamiento, with several establishments distributed by the territory. The Castilian conquerors mainly conserve the village, occupied by shepherds, later being given to the Ducado de Osuna, to that belongs until the end of the señoríos in century XIX becomes Villa by Real Privilege of Carlos III in 1.788.
The urban nucleus is based in the slope of Monte of San Pablo, between the 230 and 300 meters of altitude. The North sectors and this of the locality present/display pending forts, which supposes a physical limitation to the growth. The edges the west and the south have one more a smoother topography, being more appropriate for the expansion of the population.
The original nucleus is located around the Parochial Church (Eastern sector of the population), counting on apples extended in East-West sense. The first expansion takes place towards the western sector, the level zone of the town and crossroad, with apples of forms and variable sizes. Later growth in other directions take place. The official promotions of houses have respected the traditional tipologías, not surpassing the two plants, and being located in the South zone, the historically less important one of Montellano. The edges northern and Eastern (including the quarter the Castle) conform a marginal area, with a difficult topography and worse conditions of habitability.
The highway that unites the Coronil with Coripe crosses Montellano of the northwest to Southeastern, constituting the central axis of the urban helmet. Recently a variant of the population has been constructed. The tertiary activities are concentrated in a very certain zone of the center of the locality, whereas the industrial uses and the great equipment public do it in South half of the nucleus.
Between its constructions of artistic historical interest they emphasize the Parochial Church of San jOse (century XVIII), the hermitage of the Christ of the Remedies (century XIX) and, outside the urban helmet, the gothic Castle of Cote (century XIV).
