The municipality of Osuna is located in the Southeastern quadrant of the province of Seville, forming part of the region of the Countryside and first spurs of the South Mountain range. In 1.996 its population promoted 17,212 inhabitants, most of which resided in the main body. The term counts on another organization of denominated population Port of the Oak. The establishment of the municipal head takes place on a hill, topographic position that conferred in its origins a defensive character to him.

The history of this locality goes back until does about three thousand years, when the iberos found the city of Urso, name that makes reference to the abundance of bears in the zone. At Roman time (Genitiva Julia) it reaches a great city-planning splendor, cultural and military, getting to be camping of his own legion. In the Muslim period Oxona is denominated, being conquered in 1.239 by the Castilian armies of Fernando III Santo. In 1.264 it is given at your service of Calatrava, that creates Encomienda de Osuna. By his strategic situation, one becomes a crucial point for the defense of the border line with the nazarí kingdom of Granada. In century XV, the calatravos horsemen yield the city of Osuna to D. Pedro Téllez de Girón, whose descendants receive the title of Dukes of Osuna during the reign of Felipe II.

On a primitive town of Iberian time, and during the Roman Republic, those in favor of Pompeyo construct fortifications to defend themselves of the troops of Caesar. Triumphant this one, is based a new colony more something to the south, leaving the old Iberian establishment and initiating the historical process of continuous displacement by the skirt of the hill towards southern level earth. Genitiva Julia had to be structured on two fundamental urban axes, the north-south, coincident with the present way of the Farfana, and the East-West one, with the real path of Granada.

it will be the axis of the future urban development, the space of the existing market in the Door of the Water will become the Greater Seat of the locality. The North and South doors also are opened to individual seats, the one of the Favor and the one of Santa Rita.

In century XVI the great urban transformation of Osuna is undertaken. The old medieval lot reserve for the representative buildings, with the construction of the Colegiata, the Tomb, the University and the Castle, to the time that the residential establishment begins to extend towards the level one with streets that leave from the doors of the old city. On the way of Ecija and old way of Seville it is formed one of the most important streets, the Race, whose continuation towards Malaga and Granada fixes the first directional axis northwest-Southeastern. At the present time it continues being the most commercial and representative route of the locality. Also then another important directional axis begins towards the west, on the Path of Teba, starting off of the Door of the Water and continuing towards the east, constituting the denominated today Seville street. In century XVII an urban scheme with streets in fan is originated that leave from the street Race and look for the Seville street.

In century XIX, the Greater Seat like center of the locality is satisfied definitively, with the City council like organ of being able. It is colmatando the urban plot and a growth in height with houses of two and three plants takes place. The arrival of the railroad and the increase of the population in first half of century XX force to new urban transformations, that are materialized in the construction of peripheral residential quarters of official promotion, and in a certain industrial development in the South sector (on the brink of madness railroad and of the Seville-Malaga highway, at the moment Railcar of the 92). Lately, an important residential promotion to the northwest has been made, in the Ejido, with public financing, and that is producing the abandonment of the small village of the depressed central zones more.

Osuna is declared in 1967 Histo'rico-Arti'stico Set, emphasizing between its numerous patrimony the churches and convents of the Victory (century XVI), San Carlos (century XVII), Real, Santo Domingo (century XVI), Consolation, Spirit Santo (century XVII), Carmen, the Favor (century XVII), San Agustín, Conception, Santa Catherine and San Pedro (century XVII), as well as the Colegiata of Santa Maria of Asuncio'n (century XVI), the Archaeological Museum, the Pantheon Ducal, the University (century XVI), the Museum of the Incarnation, the Hospital of Jesus, Maria and Jose, the palaces of Beautiful Bridge, Cepeda and the Counts of the Gomera (all of century XVIII) and the old Cilla of the Town hall (century XVIII).

The Muslims are based in the suroccidental quadrant of the Roman colony. The Christian medieval city, to the border being, is walled and counts on four doors, in the exits of the ways and cattle routes: towards the West is the Door of the Water or Teba, like penetration of the way of Seville; towards the north, the one of Granada; towards the south, the one of the Sewers; and to the east, the New door. As a result of which the way of Seville