History of Peñaflor

Peñaflor is last (or first, according to it is watched) the located Sevillian town to the border of the Guadalquivir, locating themselves in the end of the province of Seville, in the limit with Cordova and, in particular, closely together of the town of Palm of the River. Its municipal term extends from the fertile valley of the Guadalquivir to first spurs of the Sevillian Brown Mountain range, towards the north.

The population of the municipality in 1.996 was of 3,930 inhabitants, corresponding most of them to the nucleus of Peñaflor and a mini part, to the Fertile valley nuclei of Almenara and the Path. These towns of Colonization are created during years 50 from the development of the regable zone of the Bembézar, being the one of the Path practically left, whereas Fertile valleys of Almenara have maintained their might like town thanks to the proximity to the main body and highway of local or regional importance 431, main communication axis of the municipality.

The origin of the municipality is turdetano, as they demonstrate to the numerous archaeological rest and the old name of Celti in the days of the Phoenicians. At that time an important place for the fishing was already Peñaflor, as much is perhaps so it was in this place where the first conserve factories were created of fish of all Spain, for which were used the techniques concerned Phoenicians.

Despite these prolegómenos, the authentic origins of the town must to the time of the Roman colonization, when it received the name of Hispalensis Digging and coined own currency with the inscriptions of Municipium Celtitanum, Celtitam and Celsitam. Its strategic location caused its defense, for which they were constructed to walls and a Castle of which today it is left the Tower of the Tribute. This factor was increased in the days of the Arabs when the villa crossed one of the moments of greater splendor.

After Reconquista, the territory happened to property of the Señorío de Baena, until something but late constituted the Marquesado de Peñaflor. As so it remained until the century XIX, in which it obtained his municipal independence like Constitutional City council.

The Guadalquivir River has been and is fundamental element in the history and the own city-planning and socioeconomic structure of the nucleus. To it the presence of the railroad has to be united whose routes run in parallel to the channel and that next to the layout of the highway has determined the urban structure of Peñaflor.

The original nucleus of the present villa, was located around the castle, once the area occupied by the located Roman city to the west of the present city in an ample perimeter around the hermitage of the Incarnation give ins. The later expansions take a linear structure, leaning in the different layouts from the passage of the highway of local or regional importance 431 that, prior to his present layout Juan at first ran by the street Carlos I and, but late, by the street Ramon and Cajal. Once surpassed by the construction the highway, the most recent expansions have taken place towards the north, in the direction of the polideportivo and towards the east, around the highway that goes to the town of the Path.

The different stages from urban development of Peñaflor have formed a very compact present structure, solely broken in the zone this of the town due to the prohibitions to build in the zone of the archaeological deposit. The linear structure of the nucleus has been transformed into one more a more orthogonal structure in the present plane due to the different layouts from the highway that have been described in the previous paragraph.

Between the monumental wealth that locks up the municipality, it is possible to emphasize in the first place, the archaeological deposit of Celti that occupies a great part of the more western urban zone of the nucleus and that is object of continuous archaeological excavations of great importance.

Also it deserves to stand out the Parochial Church of San Pedro Apostle constructed in the lot of a type precedent to mudéjar that one came down because of the earthquake of 1.755. Of the present one they emphasize its tower and its cupola of beautiful Sevillian baroque style.

They are to also indicate, the old franciscano Convent of San Luis, of half-full of century XVIII, the hermitage of Our Lady of the Incarnation, of baroque style and the one of Our Mrs. of Villadiego, leaned to a medieval tower of octogonal plant and in whose interior, an interesting collection of Roman pieces is observed.

Finally, to emphasize the rest of makes it of flours located between the route of railroad and the river that constitute a worthy example of industrial archaeology, very little in the province and that took advantage of a jump water for the generation of electrical energy.

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